[tsunamicontract]

Applying a water-repellent preservative to the preweathered wood before painting slowed this paint degradation. An acrylic latex primer and topcoatsystem was slightly more durable than an oil-based primer/latex topcoat system. Paint systems were vastly superior to the one coat
solid-color stains.

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/document-lists/wood-finish.html

covers everything from pressure treated to pine so cedar all kinds of finishes, decks, pre-weathered siding, new wood, all kinds of good info

 

[tsunamicontract]

huh, looks like latex primer, two latex top coats gives superior performance to oil oil oil or oil latex latex.

 

[vermontpainter]

Kind of flies in the face of conventional wisdom about the superiority of oil primer. More evidence that the latex technologies have come a long way in recent years.

 

[tsunamicontract]

and a lot of that research was from like the 1990's.

 

[tsunamicontract]

I should really get some friends . . .
or maybe an arousal can.
Here is the checklist for achieving optimal coating performance on exterior wood
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2004/fpl_2004_bonura001.pdf

 

[DeanV]

I should really get some friends . . .
or maybe an arousal can.
Here is the checklist for achieving optimal coating performance on exterior wood
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2004/fpl_2004_bonura001.pdf

I really do not want to know want Tsunami is going to do with an arousal can. Too much info.

edit: Now I see that the "arousal can" was not Tsunami's slip up, just a reference to the other thread.

 

[tsunamicontract]

thats for the edit, Dean. Don't worry, I decided to get some friends.

 

[LVContractor]

Anybody tried the waterproofing sealer route? I'm trying to figure out what would be compatible with top coat like Duration. I've gotten into a project a bit out of my field. Stripping and painting exterior of a 1940's Sears house outside of Houston. T-105 yellow pine siding. Paint ok under eaves and porch, but peeling and alligatored 2 feet below eaves. UV weathering on South and West exposures, mildew and moss on East and North exposures. Doing lead abatement stripping and vacuum sanding. Pulled all the caulking out between the boards.
Follow up question: should caulking be replaced between boards? The lap is only a 1/2" x 1/2" rabbet. Humidity problems are primarily outside the house.
I'm a Wisconsin cheesehead and everything seems backwards down here.