Can You Paint Vinyl Siding - Here's How! LIVE Stream 02-11-2022 Ask the Builder

Good afternoon. I'm Tim Carter. This is Ask the Builder, and we're live

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Okay, in just a minute, we're going to talk about painting. Can you paint vinyl siding

Can you paint vinyl siding? Guess what? The answer is yes. I want to go over a little housekeeping first

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Painting vinyl siding. Can you paint vinyl siding? Yes. So I have a saying that I adopted about eight years ago from a fellow ham radio operator

He's actually a pretty smart guy. but he's got very little experience on the air

But he has a saying called The Power is in the question. And if you just ask the question, can you paint vinyl siding

Why, the answer is there's, the answer is yes. Yes. You can paint vinyl siding

You might also say, can I paint? I know this sounds crazy

Can I paint my underwear? Well, of course you can. If you want to paint your underwear, go ahead

The better question probably would be, if I'm able to paint vinyl siding

how do you do it so the paint sticks on the vinyl siding That the question Let talk about it The good news first of all the good news is yes you can paint vinyl siding and even the better news is if you do it the right way the paint can last a very long time and it probably is not going to peel off

Here are the problems right off the bat. The vinyl siding, you may not realize this

I doubt the average person realizes this at all. But vinyl siding has a very, very high expansion contraction coefficient

And if you paid attention in high school physics, you know what I'm talking about

Meaning when something heats up, certain things can expand much more so than others

and vinyl siding happens to be one of those things. When it goes from just 70 degrees to even just 140 degrees, I mean, it could expand a lot

I mean, a 10-foot piece of vinyl siding might expand 3.8.7 inch

That's a huge amount of expansion in that short distance. That also means it contracts

So in other words, here..