Many homeowners assume that once an exterior painting job is complete, there’s nothing left to do. In reality, a few simple maintenance habits can help preserve your investment and extend the life of your paint job for years to come. Here are two good places to start: Remove contaminants. Over time, dirt and mildew can accumulate around windowsills and shaded areas of your home. Regularly rinsing these surfaces will help prevent staining and premature wear. Wash away dirt before it becomes embedded in the paint, and use a diluted bleach solution (one part bleach to four parts water) to remove mildew and kill spores. Inspect and maintain caulk joints. Caulk around windows, trim and other exterior features can crack or separate as it ages. When this happens, water can penetrate the paint and damage the underlying materials. To prevent moisture damage and extend the life of your paint job, try to inspect caulk joints every spring and replace cracked or deteriorated caulk as soon as possible.

2 Ways to Keep Your Home’s Paint Looking Fresh

Learn essential maintenance habits to preserve your exterior paint job. Discover how to remove contaminants and inspect caulk joints for lasting results.

Home Exterior Painting Maintenance Tips

By Yefim Skomorovsky Owner of Classic Shades Painting Co. Diamond Certified Expert Contributor

How to Create a Color Scheme for Your Home

Video: Creating a Color Scheme

one of the most important aspects of
painting your home is choosing a color
that you'll enjoy for many years to come
today we're in San Francisco with
diamond certified expert contributor
your themes Oh madoski of classic shades
painting co to learn more as a painting
contractor I deal with a lot of people
having difficulty deciding on the color
that they're going to use and that's
understandable it's the decision I'm
gonna have to live with a long time well
I start building a color scheme from a
main color and by that i mean the color
of the body of the house or your main
walls ok now what color you like would
you like for your main color well I
don't know you're going to have to
answer that question one good way of
doing that is look at the side of your
closet see what colors you like and what
cause you see there ok I happen to like
green so here's a here's a green palette
now a good way to build a color scheme
is to do use what we know in the
industry as a monochromatic color scheme
manar stands for single or one so let's
just say we're going to use this color
as the main color of our the body of our
house well a good way to create a a
pleasing combination would be to you say
use a color here for the trim of your
house ok but if you want to spice things
up for example we could introduce and
often do introduce what's known as a
complimentary color and how do you find
a complimentary color while we use our
color wheel here's here's a color wheel
that has you know all the main colors
here and let's just say let's find the
color of green here this is it here's
our green and the direct opposite of it
would be right here and that's color red
ok so let's go back to our color
building tool and let's introduce let's
just say this red here's here's a red
perhaps you want to paint this a color
before
maybe your window sashes whatever you do
do not go overboard music sparingly good
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