Some homeowners need to do spring touchup painting of exterior woodwork annually, but the time between these sessions can often be extended if the basic cause of the paint failure is corrected as well ...

Q My house has a lot of wood-framed windows. Every spring, I have to check for peeling paint on the outside frames, especially the sills. I use good paint, but it only lasts a couple of years on some ...

Living in a 1920s-era house and, for years, periodically scraping peeling paint from its wood siding before repainting, we’ve decided that this is the summer to do a more comprehensive job and remove ...

Q: The paint is peeling on the wood wainscoting in my dining room, after being painted just two years ago. What’s wrong and how can I correct it? A: Who knows! But we have plenty of educated guesses.

Q: I had my garage painted by a painting contractor about a year ago who used a medium- grade acrylic latex paint. The siding appears to be T1-11. Can you tell me why the paint comes off the siding in ...

There are certain jobs around the house that are harder than others. Prepping a house that has peeling paint is one of the hardest jobs. If you don’t sand down all that peeling paint, your new paint ...

We all know the miseries of outside paint peeling, flaking and coming off in sheets. We also know the reason for those failures. Moisture is the villain, most of it from within, not outside. There are ...

Paint peeling off gives a property a look of abandonment, which dangerously lowers its value. But thanks to the advancement in technology, your property can now have that freshly painted look for ...

Q. Why do some of my ceilings’ paint peel? A. 1. Wrong type of paint. Not ceiling paint, which is lighter in weight than any other paint, including primer. 2. Dirty, unsanded plaster. Wash and sand ...