Paint for wooden facades

The construction of a wooden house is an excellent solution, since this material has a number of positive characteristics. The wooden house "breathes", it is eco-friendly, warm and beautiful. That's just to preserve a pleasant appearance and protection from adverse environmental influences, wood must be treated with varnish or paint.

What color to paint the facade of a wooden house?

Answering this question, you can name three main types of paint suitable - acrylic, alkyd and oil. Consider them a little more in order to understand what kind of paint for the facade of a wooden house is better.

Acrylic paint is very common in Europe, where it covers 80% of wooden houses. Its advantages in the absence of a sharp odor, reliable protection against moisture while maintaining open pores of wood, so that the tree does not lose the ability to "breathe".

Applying acrylic paint is very simple. You can use a brush or roller, or you can spray it with a spray gun. It dries quickly, and re-staining for renovation can be done without preliminary cleaning the old layer.

Alkyd paint is also used for wooden facades, forming a thin film on the surface that repels water well. However, due to less penetration into the layers of wood, this coating is less durable.

Oil paint is found mainly in domestic producers. In its basis - linseed oil, because the paint has an unpleasant smell. It dries much longer than others, and it needs to be painted only in dry and not hot weather. For repainting, you must either use the oil paint again, or clean it to the base to apply another.

What paint paint is used to paint the facade of a wooden house?

The best paints are produced by European concerns Forester , Tikkurila , Dufa and others. Less popular and not so expensive brands are VIVACOLOR , a part of Tikkurila , REESA , ISAVAL , Teknos .

From domestic manufacturers it is possible to allocate the companies "ТЕКС" , "Оливеста" , " Котовский Paint- and- varnish Factory" and " Stroykompleks" .