What is Exterior Latex Paint?
Exterior latex paint refers to certain types of paint suitable for painting many home exteriors. Though the name latex is used, ingredients in the paint usually don’t contain any material from rubber trees. Instead they may be a combination of plastic resin or other manufactured chemicals and water. Would be painters may be interested in specific ingredients in exterior latex paint, and here there will be some variance depending upon brand and color. Some common ingredients are relatively benign like calcium carbonate, which is often used in antacids, and aluminum silicate or kaolin. Others main ingredients may include things like quartz or sand which helps add volume to the paint, and of course water.
