Painted Exterior Gypsum Board

Exterior gypsum sheathing is designed for direct attachment to wood framing with galvanized nails or staples and screws or metal framing by the use of screws.

Painted exterior gypsum board.

Description exterior soffit wallboard is the ideal material for exterior soffit applications and sidewalls of protected exterior corridors breezeways with indirect exposure to the weather. The mud used on the seams of drywall absorbs paint differently than the rest of the drywall. 1 widely recognized by its goldcolor densglass sheathing has an exemplary track record that spans more than 30 years. O exterior systems compatibility gypsum sheathing is a compatible underlayment for a wide range of different exterior finish materials including wood brick stone metal and vinyl as well as popular eifs and stucco systems.

The surface shall be primed and sealed with a full bodied latex primer before applying a final decorative material. This will equalize the suction between the joint compounds and the paper surface. Certainteed regular gypsum board accepts most types of paints textures and wall covering materials. Exterior paint takes such a beating that it almost always needs priming with an exterior paint primer.

This difference in porosity can cause blotchy dull areas under the paint a problem called flashing and an. It is also a widely accepted application surface for weather resistive barriers and coatings. General recommendations all properly prepared gypsum board surfaces which are to be painted shall be primed with a minimum of one coat of a good quality drywall primer or other material manufactured especially for the purpose to equalize the absorption between the gypsum board face pa per joint compound and sk im coating materials.