A few words on why we need to keep our house painted and the consequences of not painting or maintaining our home. Call Yanover Painting if you live in North Metro Atlanta and need an in home consultation.
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Why do I have so much wood rot on my
house? It's a common question that we get from homeowners
when we're doing an inspection, we're providing an estimate for
painting their home.
They might have rotten corner boards, rotten window trim, door
trim, rotten door jams siding on their chimney that's rotting
away or different parts of the house and the windows
themselves actually being run.
And the causes of this could be just as simple
as not having your house painted often enough.
You have to repaint your house every 5 to 7
years. Especially do the prep work because cocking is the
first thing to go on a paint job, It's imperative
that you have your house cocked and painting every 5
to 7 years.
Something else to keep in mind is that when your
paint starts fading, it's starting to allow moisture to get
behind the painting through the paint.
And that causes would rock not to mention when there's
wood that's exposed, It acts as a sponge with water
and it creates woodruff.
Besides that budget paint jobs where they did a decent
job of painting the house but they didn't prep it
properly. So there were still crack cocking, Which means that
even though the house is painted, there's still water making
its way into your home between your joints, on your
trim and causing rot.
And another reason is, of course damage roofing or damaged