Exterior Paint: Clothes for Your Home

People wear clothes for a lot of reasons, but the main two are to protect them from the elements and to keep them modest. A home’s exterior coat of paint accomplishes much the same purposes. Home exterior painting Watchung NJ not only makes your home look nice but also provides it with cover from some things which many homeowners don’t consider day to day when living in their house.

Sun and Wind and Rain, Oh My

Just as bodies can be worn out and damaged by natural forces, so can houses suffer. However, when the elements become too much for people, they can seek shelter. The home, however, must endure nature constantly. In time, being exposed to the weather can damage a home in multiple ways: Plastics dry out and crack, wood becomes waterlogged, and any material can be worn away by winds. A good coat of exterior paint adds a layer of protection to the materials that make up the structure of your home. Paint prevents rain or mist from soaking into the wood and keeps the sun from beating directly onto vulnerable surfaces.

Mold and Mildew

Perhaps even more important than protection from the elements, exterior paint can prevent infestations of living things from taking root in your home. Paint cannot kill mold or mildew that has already started growing on or in a building, but it can prevent one from ever beginning. Many types of exterior paint, especially those used on homes in hot, humid areas where mold is most common, are specially formulated to be extra resistant to mold and mildew, but any paint is better than none. 

Investing in a proper exterior paint job for a building is a worthwhile project. It can add years to the life of the structure, prevent all sorts of problems and keep the place looking wonderful as an added bonus.