Painting the entire exterior of your home can be expensive, and it’s tempting to cut corners on the cost of the paint. However, poor-quality paint causes problems very quickly. Indeed, you may find the paint so problematic that you have to strip it off and start all over. Here are some things that might happen with bad-quality exterior paint.
It Fades Quickly
Cheap exterior paint is notorious for quickly fading. The colors fade even more quickly if your home is in a place that gets lots of sun year-round. This is because cheap paint doesn’t hold up well under the sun’s ultraviolet light. Fortunately, the Lansing area gets sunny days around 51 percent of the time, so your paint may last a bit longer.
Cheap Paint Peels and Cracks
The cold winters and muggy summers in Lansing are hard on even high-quality exterior paint. When the paint is of low quality, the weather subjects it to premature peeling and cracking. Worse than this, when your paint job peels away, it leaves your home more vulnerable to moisture. Moisture encourages mold and mildew.
Chalking and Cheap Paint
Cheap paint lacks the good quality binders that adhere quality paint to a surface and resist UV light damage. This leads to chalking, where you rub your hand on the exterior of your house, and your palm comes back full of dust.
The Paint Doesn’t Last as Long
High-quality exterior paint should last at least a decade or even longer. Poor quality paint might need to be replaced as early as three years after it’s first applied. This means that in the long run, cheap paint costs more than paint that’s pricier. Not only this, but repairing the damage to your house that occurs when it loses its protective covering of paint adds to the expense.
Poor Quality Paint Destroys Curb Appeal
A home that has peeling, cracking, or bubbling paint loses its curb appeal. Even if you’re not planning to sell your home, taking steps to increase its appeal is a wise investment.
Poor Quality Paint is Ecologically Unsound
Cheap exterior paint is more likely to outgas VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, into the air. The VOCs might even make their way indoors.
Call Us If Your House Needs Painting
A freshly painted home not only looks beautiful, but can increase the home’s resale value if you put it on the market. If you need exterior home painting with quality paint, call our professional painters of QGC Professional Painting of Milwaukee, WI.
