Bug Spray Stain Siding Hardiplank

When dipping the paintbrush remove excess.

Bug spray stain siding hardiplank.

How to keep spiders off your siding. Rinse the siding with a garden hose equipped with a nozzle. For the over spray i used a small spray bottle of roof magic straight let it dwell for just a few seconds and pressure washed it off. There s nothing to remove the damage is permanent in the vinyl surface.

If using a brush brush the siding s surface dust or dirt then rinse the area with a garden hose. Remember the movie arachnophobia. Is it really bug spray residue on the vinyl siding or is what you re really seeing damage to the vinyl caused by the bug spray. It was a horror comedy from 1990 about an infestation of killer spiders.

Most pesticides strongly caution against spraying near unprotected siding and for good reason. Do not use stain or oil alkyd base paints on james hardie products looks like they seem to think that spray application is ok as long as its back rolled. Adjust the nozzle so that the spray pattern is just slightly wider than the width of a single piece of hardiplank. Now you probably won t have to do anything so dramatic to deal with spiders on the siding of your home but there are a few steps you can take to drive the eight.

Simple green house siding cleaner. Set the nozzle on a medium misting spray and then point the nozzle down when spraying the siding. Start at one end of the board and work your way down to the other. A pump up sprayer works well for applying fiber cement stain.

Considering using hardi board siding on new construction and in their instructions on the hardi web site they say to back roll if the siding is to be spray painted. The movie ended with a huge spider getting shot by a nail gun into a huge barn fire. Wondered why and called hardi and their tech support guy says this is because when spraying some people tend to not get enough coverage and rolling would even out the coverage. While there is no guarantee you will ever be able to get the siding back to the way it was the steps below will give it a good attempt.

Aug 3rd 2011 12 13 am 3. Stain the fiber cement by dipping a paintbrush or paint roller into the stain. Spray on the first coat of stain. As luck would have it i had a house yesterday with both stain over spray to the point where the homeowner was thinking of re siding and raid.

They stain and the stains are permanent. Within 180 days for primed product and 90 days for unprimed. I found that many painters spray but do not get good coverage on the bottom edges of siding or they get too much and get runs. From there rinse the area with clean water.

Start at the highest point on the fiber cement and work your way down.