A couple painting questions

[Kaizen]

I finished painting my garage about 5 years ago. I have a few colors and the dark green body faded to grey in 4 years. The places i'm using it are wood claps and shingles. As seen in the pics the difference from what i painted and not yet is significant.
Question 1 - is there any paint that they gaurentee against fading? Or is there an additive that does it? I used gallons from Sherman/Home depot/and Lowes on the first go round. All were one step below top.

I am able to quicly cut in and use a 4 inch roller to do the work but the shingles are up there and I was considering using my graco sprayer. I got one of those 3 foot metal gaurd things but I know there is some blow back so will I end up repainting all of the other lighter paint as well from the overspray? You can see I have the lighter color on the sill as well as a few other places. I'm able to brush it but thinkng the sprayer will be far quicker if it doesn't cost me the same time to fix the overspray.
Please keep the comments of unfinished trim and unfinished paint on this side to a minimum LOL.

 

[DGersic]

All paints fade, IMHO. I have had good luck with Valspar Duramax over its reasonable lifetime.

Every time I look at spraying, it ends up seeming like more work. You’re going to have to tape/mask everything you don’t want painted. And you have to back brush.

Those shingles would have me thinking about spraying. The flat surfaces I’d do with 4” brush.

 

[Kaizen]

All paints fade, IMHO. I have had good luck with Valspar Duramax over its reasonable lifetime.

Every time I look at spraying, it ends up seeming like more work. You’re going to have to tape/mask everything you don’t want painted. And you have to back brush.

Those shingles would have me thinking about spraying. The flat surfaces I’d do with 4” brush.

I got the Graco for fencing and saved me tons and like you I feel the setup and cleanup increase the waste and cost while probably not saving any time overall. The more I look at it, the extension ladder moves will be the killer so think i'll just scrape and paint by brush so I don't have ot climb and move the ladder several times. I just cut in and painted one side which is 36x12' in about 2 hours. The shingles will take a long time. Appreciate your input.

 

[BillK]

How dark was the green 5 years ago ? The medium Blue on the T111 on my attached garage is almost 20 years old and has not faded appreciably ??

This is in 2012: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SkUYgBWudj4GL6f37

And this is 2022: https://maps.app.goo.gl/E1dSqRgNYp3rvo4m8

I honestly do not remember what paint I used. Most likely something from Home Depot I probably last painted it around 2000 ?

 

[DGersic]

I got the Graco for fencing and saved me tons and like you I feel the setup and cleanup increase the waste and cost while probably not saving any time overall. The more I look at it, the extension ladder moves will be the killer so think i'll just scrape and paint by brush so I don't have ot climb and move the ladder several times. I just cut in and painted one side which is 36x12' in about 2 hours. The shingles will take a long time. Appreciate your input.

Early on, I hung sheetrock and painted the interior of my garage. It was late summer, had a heat wave, so 100F+ outside by mid afternoon. I had taken a week off work to get it done, and didn’t want to lose the time. So I decided to spray it, thinking it would be faster. I’d start really early when it was still cool out, and get it done fast before it got hot. Being indoors, with the concrete slab acting to slow the warm up inside, I thought it would work. So I bought an airless sprayer. And a lot of tape and plastic. And I taped off the floor, the overhead door, the man door, and the window. And it did work, I got out there at like 6am, and once I switched to the five gallon bucket and suction tube, I think I was done painting before 7am. Then I spent hours scrubbing clean all of the parts of the sprayer, fortunately inside the house with the A/C. And threw away everything I was wearing, because of the overspray and the cloud of airborne paint that thing produced.

Rather than a ladder and having to move it, get scaffolding. Then you can do the whole area at once. Plus, it’s a lot nicer standing on a flat scaffold than hanging on a ladder.

 

[Kaizen]

How dark was the green 5 years ago ? The medium Blue on the T111 on my attached garage is almost 20 years old and has not faded appreciably ??

This is in 2012: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SkUYgBWudj4GL6f37

And this is 2022: https://maps.app.goo.gl/E1dSqRgNYp3rvo4m8

I honestly do not remember what paint I used. Most likely something from Home Depot I probably last painted it around 2000 ?

Crazy right? The gray in the second pic above and the start is the bottom of the garage in the other pic which i just painted. The southern exposure actually will need sanding and prep as it did not hold up. The paints were all paint and primer in one but I used preprimed claps as well.

 

[Kaizen]

Early on, I hung sheetrock and painted the interior of my garage. It was late summer, had a heat wave, so 100F+ outside by mid afternoon. I had taken a week off work to get it done, and didn’t want to lose the time. So I decided to spray it, thinking it would be faster. I’d start really early when it was still cool out, and get it done fast before it got hot. Being indoors, with the concrete slab acting to slow the warm up inside, I thought it would work. So I bought an airless sprayer. And a lot of tape and plastic. And I taped off the floor, the overhead door, the man door, and the window. And it did work, I got out there at like 6am, and once I switched to the five gallon bucket and suction tube, I think I was done painting before 7am. Then I spent hours scrubbing clean all of the parts of the sprayer, fortunately inside the house with the A/C. And threw away everything I was wearing, because of the overspray and the cloud of airborne paint that thing produced.

Rather than a ladder and having to move it, get scaffolding. Then you can do the whole area at once. Plus, it’s a lot nicer standing on a flat scaffold than hanging on a ladder.

eh........that seems like a large expense for ten min of work. That top part is like 20 feet high. I'm thinking I should be able to position a ladder with a bucket hanger, scrape if needed, paint what i can reach, then maybe repeat as it will **** up the paint fast. I did use a ladder to install all of those shingles. We'll see how it goes.