Not long ago in this column, I shared why it’s so hard to preserve exterior wood using any number of products. One of them was paint. You may have been one of the many readers that reached out to me.
If I had to boil down all the emails I received to just one, it would have read: “Tim, I have to paint my exterior (fill in the blank). I don’t have a choice. Why do paints fail, what can I do to get the longest-lasting result, and what is the best exterior paint in your opinion?”
Hoo boy! Countless professional papers have been written about these topics. Scientists with PhDs in chemistry spend their entire careers wrestling with these questions. That said, I’ll do my best to answer them in the limited space of this column. Let’s get started….