Painting and stripping old wood siding overview when we started to paint our house we faced the problem of trying to decide what we could do to maximize the life of our paint job.
How to paint an old house that has shingle siding.
Shingle siding house with massive paint failure.
Buy primer and paint to finish the job.
Whether it is composed of wood or asphalt your shingle siding is ill suited for adhesion.
I have since had a roofing contractor out to check for any roof flashing.
Scrape any peeling paint chips off the shakes with a scraper.
Unfortunately we kept finding contradictory information.
Remove as much of the old paint as possible as the more prep work you do the better your home will look.
Allow the house to dry completely for one to two weeks.
Work the brush into the overlapped edges and the recesses between the shingles.
Use an acrylic latex paint.
Let the primer dry and apply a high quality acrylic latex house paint.
Apply primer and paint using a 4 inch brush apply an oil base stain blocking primer.
If you would like to paint shingle siding consider some critical points.