{"id":2403,"date":"2021-02-24T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:01:50","slug":"exterior-paint-touch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/exterior-paint-touch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Exterior paint touch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of our paint is still in great shape.\u00a0 Most of it is between 3 and 4 years old.\u00a0 But we had a few areas that needed touch up on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, some of the wood used for the exterior trim, expanded or contracted over the first couple of years and cracks appeared.\u00a0 Our painters did a bang-up job touching it all up.<\/p>\n<p>Our 2nd story shingle stain had faded a remarkable amount for the relatively short amount of time they&#8217;d been in the sun.\u00a0 So we had them redone using a different product.\u00a0 Here you can see the contract between the new pain and the old, showing how much it had faded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2404\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4310-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4310-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4310-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4310-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4310-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4310-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We expected to have to redo the shingles every 5 years.\u00a0 In this case, they only lasted about 2 1\/2.\u00a0 Hopefully the new product lasts longer.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about due for some interior touch-up, but we&#8217;ve been putting it of until we feel more comfortable having people in the house for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of our paint is still in great shape.\u00a0 Most of it is between 3 and 4 years old.\u00a0 But we had a few areas that needed touch up on the outside. As you would expect, some of the wood used for the exterior trim, expanded or contracted over the first couple of years and<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/exterior-paint-touch-up\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Exterior paint touch-up<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paint"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}