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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Posts: 45,480
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Anyone else here use Elastomeric paint for thier home?
I used it back in 2000.
Still doing great 17 years later!
I'm located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intercoastal Waterway and my house sits up high on a dune ridge so a lot of exposure.
Been through multiple hurricanes with very high winds and rains driven at high speed.
I painted my house myself using this process:
1. pressure wash
2. scrape and wire brush any loose material by hand
3. apply primer by hand (roller and brush)
4. tape off and spray
I used two different kinds of primer - one for masonry and one for wood. Most of my house is concrete block but I also have some wood siding.
I gave her two coats using a gas motor sprayer - like a pressure washer with different type spray wand obviously and a suction tube I dropped into my 5 gal. paint bucket.
My house is a single story 2 Bdr. 2 Bath - not large.
Ended up using approx. 22 gallons of Elastomeric.
Not sure how many cans of primer.
Once you get that sprayer going - it's easy to get carried away! I painted a few things I hadn't originally intended to like some fence partitions and my garage door (fiberglass).
Anyway...just wondering what some experiences were from the collective.
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