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Yes you can paint your vinyl siding.


  First things first, Clean the siding. If you have a power washer use it or consider renting one. What ever you decide, the siding must be clean. Failing to clean the siding properly will result in problems.





    Use care in your color selection. The siding on your home expands and contracts with temperature changes. Changing from a very light color (white) to a very dark color can cause your siding to expand to much during hot weather (even on the shady side of the house). This will cause your siding to buckle. You do not want this to happen.

  There are seams where you siding overlaps. Use caution and do not apply to much paint at these lap points. To much paint can prevent the needed siding movement and cause your siding to buckle.
  After you apply the first coat it is likely that the siding may contract overnight as the temperature cools. It is likely you will find a small (miss) at you lap points. The siding contracted as it cooled and exposed a section that was covered during the warmth of the day.
Look for these spots early in the day and touch up as needed.




  On the bottom of the siding there are weep holes. These holes are there to allow condensation on the back side of the siding to escape. It is inevitable that some will be filled with paint but try not to fill all of them.




 


Do not paint in direct sun. The paint will dry to fast for you to do a nice job.


 
Paint no more than 4 lap boards at one time.

  Always work from one vertical stopping point to another.
One corner to another, or one corner to a window.
Do not stop in the middle of a wall you will leave a lap.




 Paints are like almost anything else, you get what you pay for,
so don't go cheap. A good exterior latex paint will cost around $40.00 per gallon. The same holds true for your brush. A good 4 inch latex brush will cost around $15.00.
Clean your brush at the end of the day. Don't just throw it in a bucket of water.

  The amount of gloss is a personal preference but most (satin) finish paints have about the same gloss as the siding had when new.











 
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