Show 1 CHEAP PAINT WilLI E MAKE HOUSE UGLY An Architect Warns Builders Against Fals Economy in Construction BLISTERS ON WET WOOD PRIMING COAT SHOULD BE PUT ON AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BLE 1 This is the season of the year when the house owner turns his thoughts to painting and a prominent Salt Lake 1 f architects who has had years of ex experience experience in this work has been called upon frequently during the past few weeks to give his opinion as to the proper method to be used to give a building budding a bright and attractive ap appearance appearance This man holds that the common mistake of builders Is in deco decorating decorating decorating rating their homes with cheap paint He says say g it is s false economy and often res alts In excess cost in the end On this subject the architect said The Tho exterior ext painting and the ex exterior exterior exterior wood finishing are two important Important important tant items in the construction of every ever home Still these are items to which the average home builder pays little attention and knows less about than an anything else that enters into the construction of his home It seldom occurs to the average man that there is a great difference In the Uie quality of painting materials and a astill astill still greater difference between the different ways in which it can be put on It Is ia safe sate to say my that one home homebuilder homebuilder homebuilder builder out of every five has to re refinish finish and repaint different parts of his home within two years after its completion The exterior paint blisters oft off the shingle stains run and the Interior finish wears off oft on much handled places such as the stair balus balustrade balustrade balustrade trade or the pantry door Plunge Needlessly Ahead Still with poor painting Jobs on every hand many home builders go ahead using thel their own Judgment which Is often poor or Influenced by de designing designing designing signing people with the usual results r There Is an old saying that Ex Experience Experience Experience Is the best teacher and fools will learn In no other It will be bethe bethe the object of this article to point out outa a few of the common mistakes of L i home builders while painting and decorating dec decorating decorating orating their homes Starting with the outside about the first thing that shows up defective materials or workmanship Is the stained shingles If It the material was of a cheap or Inferior quality the remedy would have been a better grade of material but it sometimes happens that when using the very highest grade of shingle stain the results are unsatisfactory The fail fall failure failure ure are to stay on Is la then a matter of poor workmanship It Is best to first dip the shingles about of their length i and then after atter they are laid Inid and have havo I been on the building for a month or two give them another good coat on the outside of the same stain Even then n it Is best to use a little darker shady shade of or stain than the color desired especially in the green stains for the very best grade of ot shingle stain will fade a litHe little The shingles should be bone dry when they are dipped so that they the will absorb as much of ot the stain i as and the last brush coat should not be put on until five days after a rainstorm on on them This is an important point for if 1 the shingles are not dry they the will not absorb the required amount of stain and the little that they do stay stays t near the surface and will soon be beA washed A off otto Sun Fades Out Stains A man who built a very large home entirely covered with shingles had a avery avery avery very peculiar experience which Illus Illustrates illustrates Illustrates this point The house was built in a n rather wet season Within two years after the building was complete the north side of the house had no stain whatever on It the shingles hav having havIng having ing resumed their natural color On the south side of the house and under the thc porches and directly under the cor cornice cornice cornice nice and other protected places the stain was as bright as when new Tim Tha sun had dried out the shingles where they y remained exposed to it but they had remained wet on the shady parts of the house not under cover before being stained On this house the shingles were not dipped but merely brushed after being put on For all exterior woodwork nothing but the best lead and oil paint should be used The Thc material for the painting paint painting paintIng ing and finishing of a home is such a mall Item Hem of ot cost compared with the cost of labor that there is IB little ex excuse excuse excuse cuse for tor using anything but the very best of materials Every house heuse should be painted at nt atleas least leas three good coats including the priming coat The woodwork should be as dry as possible for the paint will wll clinch to It better when perfectly dry than if it damp If It the woodwork Is ac actually actually actually wet the paint will hardly hold at atall atall atall all and will blister off later on The priming coat coot should be put on as fast as the woodwork Is put up if It it is dry in order to do so The second coat should then be put on leaving l about a week between each several weeks would be better hetter The third coat can be bl put on shortly after the second coat but It would be beter to wait walt until one onu summer season has had a chance to thoroughly dry out the woodwork am and oils from the previous coats coots of paint pain before applying the third Let the Walls Dry Out After the walls have ha va had a II chance to thoroughly dry out It will always alwa s be noticed under a magnifying glass glassand glassand and sometimes even with the naked eye that the paint has apparently shrunk leaving the entire surface covered with fine finc hair cracks If the thin coat Is not put on until the sec second t ond and coat oat is 18 thoroughly dry then than this network of minute cracks is filled ur up in good shape with the third coat with the result that the moisture Is kept out of the woodwork that would have been admitted to some extent through the th time fide hair cracks Many homes of attractive design are art ruined through a poor combination of 01 colors when painted This Is an im important important important matter which should be care carefully carefully carefully fully studied by every home builder and unless he has more artistic talent talen than the average man he would do dowell dowell dowell well to find some home of similar design to his own having a combination tion 01 nr colors pleasing to him and de deliberately deliberately deliberately copy It For all colonial work for the mold moldings moldIngs moldings ings broken up Into small members some of them ornamental it Is best bes besto to use white or light colors When the woodwork is dark the shadows which make these moldings stand out by con contrast contrast contrast are not seen which Is the prin argument in favor of light paint for tor colonial work In architecture as In life it is the shadows which make true beauty stand tand t out by contrast On a mission or craftsman house it is best to use dark colors so as to hide the very ab sense of moldings or ornamental treat treatment treatment ment mento 4 |