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The obvious place that caulk should be applied is where window frames meet the side of the house. However, there are other spots, and these are generally overlooked. The following is a check- list to use to insure that all areas of your home which need caulking are caulked prior to painting.

Exterior Painting

Estimating the amounts and conditions, plus actual techniques

You are now almost ready to perform the easiest part of painting a house. Believe it or not, that part is the actual painting. Before discussing it, however, there are two questions that often bother the homeowner-painter:

1. How much paint do I need?

2. When is the best time to paint?

If you answer that first question wrong or guess at the answer, you will either run out of paint midway through the job or end up with more paint than you need. Such need not be the case if you employ the formula professional painters use to determine how much paint is needed to paint a house.

HOW TO ESTIMATE

The following is the step-by-step procedure to use for determining how much paint you need to paint your house:

1. Determine the average height of your home. This is the distance from the foundation to the roof plus two feet for home and pitched roofs.

2. Multiply the average height by the distance around the foundation to get the surface area in square feet.

3. Determine how many gallons are needed by using the following formulas: Surface area Number of gallons of prim-450 er required Surface areaNumber of gallons of finish 500 paint required for each coat