Painting exterior of house- one or two coats?

I don't have any first hand experience with Aura but I've heard good things about it. That said, two coats are always better than one. If you are going through the trouble of washing house, scraping paint and repairing any soft wood you find, then go ahead and protect all that work with two coats of paint.

Painting is the easy part, it's the prep that's a bitch.

Short answer: good primer and 2 coats of quality, non-gimmicky paint. Also, if you're not doing it yourself, make sure and get a true professional painter for that house... and watch them.

I own a home built in 1907 and am in the process of buying one built in 1898. I had the 1907 house painted 8 years ago. You can tell where the painters one-coated it vs. where they did the job right.

On the 1898 house the prior owners' painters did a sub-par scrape job and used gimmicky "no primer" paint on it 2 years ago-and it's starting to peel off.

My advice is to make sure the scrape job is done properly before doing anything (and, of course, repair the spots that need it as a poster said above). Then prime with a quality primer, and 2 coats with a quality paint-nothing gimmicky like you're talking about. Gimmicky paint is cutting-corners paint and cutting corners doesn't get the job done on an old home.

The money you spend right now will save you big money and headaches in re-do and rotted wood and there's no reason if the paint job is done right that it shouldn't last 20 years with proper maintenance and upkeep.

Consumer Reports has the BM paint rated #5.
Behr #1 and 3
Clark + Kensington #2
Sherwin-Williams #4

Short correct answer is two.

Rhino shield that sum bitch.

I used the BM Aura on my mother's house. I really liked it, it seemed to flow easily, making brush work easier. I put one coat, but the existing paint was not in bad shape, just a little faded. I washed down with TSP and power washed with medium pressure to prep it.

It's May,you shouldn't even need a coat. Wear shorts and an old T-shirt.

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On exteriors use high gloss

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The only thing High Gloss looks good on is cars and bathtubs and toilets.