How to select an exterior home paint for it to be long-lasting, endurable and worth the price?
If the exterior home paint can be heat-resistant but not durable, the decision is definitely not too difficult. Just think carefully before our beloved home is faced with a problem of peeling paint, swelling color and fading over and over again. This costs more and more money than ever before.
So, let’s see how to select the right exterior home paint. How can homeowners choose for a beautiful home with durable color and is worth the value?
- Choosing the exterior house paint, it must be durable and long-lasting.
- Understanding the house
- Exterior home paint system for new houses
- Exterior home paint system for old houses
- Exterior home paint system for high moisture
- Exterior home paint system with maximum heat-resistance
- Painting process: An easy way to do it yourself
Choosing the exterior home paint, it must be durable and long-lasting.
The most important thing when choosing the exterior home paint is “durability”. The exterior home paint is the first of a house to experience lots of things, such as heat, rain, and weather conditions. Then, homeowners have to consider other properties, including hot-resistant colors, ability to reflect heat from the house and auspicious color shades, etc.
TOA’s home and building paint products include the highest quality premium grade group (or the best paint products), thenthe high-quality premium group ,thestandard quality group and the economy group, with different and reasonable prices for homeowners to choose as appropriate.
Understand the house
and choose exterior paint for a full system
Start painting by simply studying the type of the house
To choose the most suitable products for houses, TOA divides 4 main product groups for an efficient home painting system as follows:
- New houses never painted before
- Old houses or renovated houses aged 20-30 years or more
- Houses located in high moisture areas
- Houses in heavy-sunlight areas
TOA divides those 4 groups of home paint systems for the convenience of homeowners to buy the proper home paint products with long-lasting beauty and the optimum efficiency of coloring.
1. The best exterior home paint system for a new home
TOA never stops inventing better home paints and chemicals. Amidst every day’s growth of innovations, TOA now launches as group of SuperShield paint products or Ultra-premium acrylic watercolors, suitable for exterior painting for new homes. There is a combination of special features so called “Ti-Pure” - Titanium Triple Protection, a special Nano-titanium with its 3-layer coating to protect houses from all weather conditions, including sunlight, sea breeze and rainstorms. This coloring film can protect houses, buildings, resorts and vacation homes with the most efficiency and long-lasting for more than 15 years.
For E-catalogue of additional SuperShield paints, click
2. Exterior home paint system for old houses or renovated houses aged 20-30 years old and over
An important thing to note before the exterior painting of old houses aged 20-30 years and over is the “condition of the cement surface”. If the houses are located in areas with strong weather conditions, such as heavy sunlight, sea breeze, or rainstorms, at all times, these can result in a faster deterioration of cement surfaces. So, the preparation of the surface for old houses is very important. If the surface is not in a ready state to be repainted, there will be possible recurrent problems of peeling and swelling colors.
Should the surface be smoothened before painting?
Skim Coat is a smoothening of the walls. When it is necessary to smoothen the walls, homeowners need to check whether the house surface is porous or rough as grains of sand. If it requires smooth surface, just use skim coat for smoothness first by applying TOA Contact Primer on old cement before doing the skim coat once again and continuing with home painting.
3. Exterior home paint system under high moisture
Houses with high moisture are sometimes inevitable, especially moisture from the ground below that pushes up to the lower part of houses or walls.
If inevitable, one can prevent having less moisture on the house by using chemicals, such as TOA Moisture Guard Paint it on the lower part of houses before starting the paint system to help the house become more resistant to moisture. It also extends the life of the topcoat film and prevents the color film from cracking, swelling and gradually peeling off later.
4. Exterior home paint system with maximum heat-resistance
For houses that focus on maximum heat-resistant, TOA has an innovation called “TOA home cooling system”. This type of insulation product called TOA Insulator Primer is proven to actually reduce the house temperature and it also has a property for reflecting out the heat by up to 94.5%. It should be used with different types of TOA topcoat for maximum results to reflect-out the heat.
Painting process
An easy way to do it yourself
The best exterior home paint system for a new home
Step 1: Prepare the surface
- Clean the walls to be free of dust, cement particles and grease stains.
- In areas with uneven cracks, repair or plaster the surface before painting the house, with the right materials or surface plastering.
Step 2: Primer
- ApplySuperShield Alkali Resisting Primer 1 time.
Step 3: Topcoat
There are 3 types of SuperShield topcoat.
Apply 2-3times
Exterior home paint system for high moisture
Step 1: Prepare the surface
New cement surface
- The surface must be dry, clean, as well as free from cement and grease stains.
- Apply 1 time of TOA Moisture Guard and let dry for 3-4 hours.
Old cement surface
- Scrape-off the old color film and the peeling color film completely.
- Clean and leave for drying.
- For areas with fungi and lichens, apply TOA 113 Microkill to disinfect the fungi first.
- Apply 1 time of TOA Moisture Guard and let dry for 3-4 hours.
Step 2: Primer
New cement surface
- ApplySuperShield Alkali Resisting Primer for 1 times
Old cement surface
- Apply TOA Contact Primer or TOA Quick Primer for 1 time.
Step 3: Topcoat
Besides TOA SuperShield for topcoat, other models can also be used.
Apply 2-3 times
Exterior home painting with heat-resistance of TOA home cooling system
Step 1: Prepare the surface
New cement surface
- Leave the walls to dry for at least 1 month.
- Clean dust, cement powders, and greasy stains.
Old cement surface
- Scrape-off the old color film and the peeling color film completely.
- Clean and let dry (Do not use a steel wire brush).
- For areas with fungi and lichens, apply TOA 113 Microkill to disinfect the fungi first.
For cracked areas, choose for TOA fillings that are suitable.
Step 2: Paint insulation primer
New cement surface
- Paint TOA Insulator Primer for 1 time.
Old cement surface
- Apply TOA Contact Primer for 1 time.
- Paint TOA Insulator Primer for 1 time.
Step 3: Topcoat
Besides TOA SuperShield for topcoat, other models can also be used.
Apply 2-3 times
Exterior home paint system for old houses or renovations
Step 1: Prepare the surface
- Polish off the old deteriorating paint (Do not use a steel wire brush) and let dry.
- Apply primer on old dusty or crumpled surfaces.
- Plaster with skim coat using an iron trowel or stainless steel trowel or pontoon trowel on the required surface area.
- To repeat plastering, leave the first layer for 2-3 hours before the next layer.
- Use sandpapers for polishing skim coat to make the surface smoother.
Step 2: Primer
For renovations, choose from old paint plaster primer or multipurpose primer which divided into two groups:
Old plaster primer group
- TOA 7IN1 Super Sealer (Solvent Base)
- TOA Contact Primer (Solvent Base)
- 4SEASONS Super Primer (Solvent Base)
Multipurpose primer group
- TOA ExtraWET Primer
- TOA Quick Primer
- 4SEASONS Quick Primer
Apply for 1 time, let dry for 2 hours.
Step 3: Topcoat
Exterior topcoats are as follows:
- SuperShield
- TOA 7IN1
- TOA Shield-1 Nano
- 4SEASONS
Apply 2-3 times
For any houseowners who want exterior home painting, just come and check out at TOA, with distribution channels at retail stores having TOA logos in 77 provinces nationwide, as well as a group of modern trade shops that sell paints and building materials, such as HomePro, Thai Watsadu, MegaHome, etc. For more information from experts, please contact via Facebook Messenger 24 hours.
FAQ
Q : What is the difference between exterior and interior paint?
A : External paints are designed to withstand weather conditions as well as resist sunlight, rain, stains and moisture. While, interior paints are safe for residents, with mild odors, wipeable and convenient to clean for some models.
Q : Can exterior paint be used for interior?
A : Yes, but not commonly done. Properties of interior and exterior paints are different.
Q : Where to further preview the matching of exterior shading colors of TOA?
A : Click here for examples of exterior shading colors.
Q : How to choose an exterior home paint?
A : If not painting often, choose the best exterior paint and TOA recommends SuperShield, the best exterior home paint and the world-class quality protection, with durability for 15 years and excellent stain-proof properties. It can clean itself when it rains, extremely resistant to corrosion from severe weather conditions, and the best of heat protection. It can reflect the heat from the sun and reduce the temperature on the surfaces of the walls in houses by 12 degrees. Click for more information here
Q : How to find painters for exterior home painting of TOA?
A : WHO Service is a team specializing in house painting and using the color of the TOA inquiry. For more information, please visit the website WHO Service or Line Official https://lin.ee/3lW9lK8
