I need to paint my cabin exterior, how can I figure how much paint to use? Cabin is 20'X30'?
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You're missing one dimension. How high are the cabin walls?
What you need to do is take the height of the cabin x20' , which gives you the square footage of a side wall, double that, then take the height of the cabin x 30', which gives you the square footage of the back wall, double that, then add the two together. That gives you the square footage of the surface you are going to paint.
Take this number to your local hardware store and read the labels on the paint can. They will tell you how many square feet of surface the contents of the can will cover, and if you divide that into your total, you will know how many cans of paint you require.
Good luck!
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How tall is it?
Just get a 5gal bucket. You will probably need multiple coats and you may need to do touch ups in the future.
How tall is it?
Just get a 5gal bucket. You will probably need multiple coats and you may need to do touch ups in the future.
one coat u will need 2 gal of paint
The paint labels tell you the coverage for one can in square feet. Don't know how tall your cabin is...say 10 feet tall just for a rough guess. That's 1000 square feet.
you can figure paint coverage with approximately 200 square feet per gallon. If you need to prime the cabin it would probably help the paint stick better as well. You will also need to know the height to figure the sqaure footage.
hope this helps
You have the spec. Look it up on the label of the paint can, it usually tell you how big an area it cover.
Just buy more then you think youll need and return the extra, or save it for next year.
you may need a primer, but you need to know your sq ft. so 20x30 is 600sqft. but you also need to know your wall hight as well. so without that 600sqft means nothing really. I am not much help am I? the average can of paint from bear(gal) would cover 100sqft
Measure the cabin. Take the dimensions to the paint store. Let them figure it out for you. Seriously.
Go to the paint store with the dimensions of your cabin and they can figure it for you.