Learn how to prepare the surface and paint damaged exterior siding. ServiceMagic's Home Improvement Expert David Lupberger gives a step by step demonstration.

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Hi! I’m David Lupberger at servicemagic.com. Today we are going to do a small video on how to repair, prime, and paint, exterior siding that is peeling paint just like this. Before we got started let’s review the materials we’re going to need. The materials we’ll need is paper, sand paper, cloth or rag, paint roller, primer, paint, and paint bucket. First thing I’m going to do is peel away any of that loose or peeling paint. I want to get that off, so that when I put my primer on, there’s nothing loose and the primer adheres well. Step two is once I’ve scraped it, now I’m going to take a piece of sand paper and I’m going to sand down the same area because when I put my primer on, I want a good, dry, hard surface. Once I’ve done my sanding, I want to get out a good, dry cloth or rag and wipe this down because I want to make sure there’s no dust left on that surface before I do the priming. Before you open any paint, even though the paint store may have shaken it for you, make sure you shake it again. Actually shook the primer, because as you can see I tinted it. Primer is ordinarily white, but I tinted this because once I put it in the wall if I use a white primer, and all primer is white, then when I put in my finish coat, it would take more than one coat against a white primer. So in this case I can do just one finish coat and it will cover. I’ve prep the surface, it’s dry, and it is ready to prime, so I’m going to put on a light layer of primer, and as most of this materials is latex they actually dry very, very, quickly. And now we’re ready for the final coat, I ordinarily wouldn’t do this on an air-conditioner, but this has been our construction table so bear with me, so we put up the primer. I’m going to open up the finish coat, pour a little bit of paint into my paint tray, and because, the walls are already been prep, it’s ready to go. So, now I’m putting on my finish coat, this will be my sealer, I’m going to do basically what I did with the primer but this finish coat is really locking in at the siding. And protecting it against the weather, so now once that dries you’ll see I took the paint, went to the paint store and match the exterior finish. And by doing that I can do touch up painting, it will be get very close to matching the color of the siding itself. I’m David Lupberger with servicemagic.com. That’s how you repair, prime and paint the exterior siding with peeling paint. If you want somebody else to do this for you, go to sevicemagic.com to find prescreened contractors for just this job.