How to Paint Bricks

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Summary: Bricks are difficult to paint because they are porous and absorb the paint. Watch as a professional home repairman shows how to paint bricks in this free video on home improvement.

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By James Drew
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James Drew is the owner and president of JNC Home Repair in Austin, TX. An HVAC certified tech with over two decades experience in plumbing, masonry and carpentry, Drew and his wife...read more

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"Hi, I'm James with JNC Home Repair, today I'm going to show you how to paint bricks or paint a brick. First thing you want to know about painting bricks is it's no different than a wall or painting anything else, it's just a little different prep process. It's considering that a brick is a porous material, it's got a lot of pores, it's got a lot of imperfections, it's not a real smooth surface. What professionals use is it's called a block filler and you want to apply the block filler to the brick before you actually use your finish coat and it brushes on or stays on just like any other type of paint. It's a little bit thicker, you may have to, if you're spraying it, you may have to adjust your tips, you may have to get a bigger tip with a bigger diameter so it can actually flow through the gun right. If you're brushing and rolling it's just applying the same way you would just do a regular wall or anything else. The key to painting bricks is you want to use a block filler to actually penetrate and fill those porous holes, if not, you're going to end up trying to paint it twenty times before you can actually get a good coat of paint on it. The block filler will actually help you fill all those imperfections and you can come over with one finish coat."

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