I thought I would share a photo of a recent "challenge". We did a nice sized job $1400. Roof cleaning, Painted wood siding, pavers, deck and windows. It was very profitable. during sale I tested wood trim/siding with a 4% mix that I am showing homeowner how quick we remove mold from his siding etc. I use a spray bottle and spray mix on various surfaces and as soon as clean I rinse with a jug of water. I was under the impression that allowing the mix to be on the paint for a short while during my sales pitch would be sufficient for testing for paint reaction. The guys sprayed siding and it changed color. After I went to the job I timed it, and it took 5 - 7 minutes of the mix sitting on the painted trim at 4% before the paint changed color. Luckily I had a free day and we went back and painted all of his trim. The hardi siding paint had no reaction - Sherwin Williams, but the trim a Sherwin Williams semi gloss in sage changed color. Moral of the story - let your test area set for at least 5 minutes before rinsing off. Customer was very happy that my guys told him we would make it right and we fixed within a week. We will see what his angies list review says. The color should be the brownish color, not the green. It actually looked like a real color that might've been the previous color.
I don't know why but Hardi board or painted T-111 are no issues. But when you get a crappy paint, SH just eats it up. I had a "challenge" also. Luckily she was having the door repainted after we cleaned the house. Anyone know why this happens to some doors and noth others?
-- Edited by Danny Cronauer on Saturday 31st of August 2013 07:42:14 AM
I had a dark maroon door earlier this year do the same thing, but actually turned back after 48 hours. I told the customer I would repaint it for them, but she called me and said not to worry about it it went back to the original color with no whatwhat
Am I reading your post correctly? Did you spray the area in question with 4%?
Dan,
Is it possible your crew sprayed the door area from the top down instead of from the bottom up? With poor quality finishes it doesn't take long for the streaks to develop.
I think the door got hit by accident. And I don't think top down or bottom up would have made a difference, it is streaked, like a gloss finished was remove.
