Question regarding vinyl siding?

Question

How easy is it to paint vinyl siding? Does it require special paint and primer or just the regular outdoor stuff?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No it is not easy to paint. Most vinyl siding has a sort of a slick surface and usually it is grained or slightly grooved with slick grooves to make it look more like house wood from a distance. Also it is flexible which is terrible for holding paint. I recommend replacing the siding before you paint it. Take it from me, painted vinyl siding looks awful. If it were aluminum siding it can be painted relatively easily.

Answer 2

its vinyl, the paint won't stay on . it moves its not pourous it would be like painting the tires on your car.

even if you sanded the suface prined with a good sealer and painted it .

  MOst people just wash it

Answer 3

Painting it sort of defeats the whole purpose for getting vinyl siding to begin with.

Answer 4

Really easy with the right paint / equipment.  The hardest part, just like interior painting...is the countless hours spent taping off things that you don't want painted.