Painting Brick - Hidden Cost You Should Know About

Homeowners often update their homes with new paint. However, if you're considering painting & bricks, there are a few things to consider before disassembling the spray gun and opening a party!

Perpetual -The most important word to remember about painting bricks is persistence. That's right. It ’s a one-way street. This is permanent and cannot be deleted once applied. If you really need it, you know that some people say you can remove the paint with a stripper and repair cleaner. That's true.

However, remember that you are starting a very expensive repair process. This process is usually limited to very expensive or very valuable masonry buildings that provide large amounts of money. In fact, the cost of repair cleaning will be outside the range of all but the richest homeowners. [Tens of thousands of dollars]

Ongoing maintenance -The last day to paint the bricks of the house is the first day the paint starts to deteriorate. Sooner or later, you will need to repaint the bricks.

Now it ’s a never-ending process. In the long run, you will spend your bricks painting over and over again, and in the first place you will spend your home upgrading to brick work. Therefore, simple corrections, such as painting a brick you do n’t like, can often be a costly mistake. Brick needs to be repainted more often than other homes. This is because water can enter and cause serious damage.

Flood -This is the next point to remember. Bricks need to breathe. What does that mean? Well bricks naturally breathe and drain water from the walls. Coating them with paint effectively closes the brick pores and prevents breathing. In a perfect world, this effectively eliminates water and does not sound like a bad idea.

However, in real world situations, the paint begins to crack fairly quickly. A fine hairline rift opens and water cannot escape into the masonry system. Unfortunately, at this point it is difficult to recognize or confirm the effects of water intrusion because it is hidden behind the paint.

As each freeze-thaw cycle comes and goes, the brick actually degrades and damage is already done before the problem becomes clear. Most of the wall area has "bricking of the brick surface". And more areas you can't see will delaminate but are held together by the paint. Therefore, a thorough inspection for damage is required.

Now you not only have on-going paint maintenance to deal with, but you have to do the repair of degraded bricks as well.

Therefore, you can see how a seemingly simple treatment of changing colors by applying bricks can have a wide range of effects and consequences. If you have to go to this route, we recommend that you contact your local masonry repair specialist for advice on how to protect the masonry before painting and how to proceed with the painting process.