hello! my name is grady johnson and i am aprofessional painter and today i am representing expertvillage.com. now i would like to talkabout the materials we are going to need for the exterior wall painting today. to startwith we are going to have to do some caulking. now there are a lot of different caulks outthere but only a few that work well. always use an acrylic latex caulk. the new ones havea little bit of silicone in them and they
best exterior paint colors for stucco, are still paintable but never buy a siliconecaulk. that's just not going to work. you are never going to be able to paint it. nowalso we are going to be doing some speckling today. there are a lot of different kindsof speckling out there. i recommend the light weight speckling. now if you get into a bigjob or if you have a huge hole you got to
use, you may have to pick up something a littleheavier like a joint compound or a plaster. but for most of your work you are going tobe okay with a good light weight all purpose speckling. okay. next i want to talk aboutprimers. there are oil base primers and latex primers. the latex primers of today are justas good as the oil base primers so the best rule of thumb to stay out of trouble if youare painting with oil, use an oil base primer or if you are painting with latex like weare today, use a latex base primer. use a water base primer for your water base paintand you will never run into any problem. this is true of acrylic too. now we will be paintingwith acrylic today and this is a semi-gloss acrylic which gives you a little bit of asheen but it's not going to dance so bright
like a high gloss. semi-gloss is what i prefergenerally. there are glosses and flats, whatever you prefer but generally on these, we usea semi-gloss and we will be using white today. you can paint the eaves in oil but now dayseverybody uses these acrylic latexes; they just work a lot better. now they are alsowater based, easier to clean up and they are kind of like plastic when they go on. therefore,they are easy to wash up. be sure you get a semi-gloss or gloss finish. the flat isnot going to look right against your flat wall. finally we are going to be putting ona latex exterior wall paint. this exterior
wall paint is the best thing to use. obviouslythe more money you spend, the longer it will last. buy yourself the color you are lookingfor and we will talk a little later about
how to box that up. these are all of the materialsyou are going to need to paint this exterior wall.
