Instructions accompany each unit of PrimeTrim showing appropriate application techniques for nailing, painting, caulking, flashing and other tips to provide long term performance. Careful attention to these instructions should afford a product that greatly minimizes one of the homeowner's biggest headaches - the repainting of exterior trim. Because PrimeTrim is produced under controlled conditions using commercially available and renewable wood fiber, its price variations are small, and limited. When compared with the market price volatility of lumber that is price sensitive to supply and demand, the builder is able to project costs more accurately. Job site finishing of PrimeTrim is easy.
Painters enjoy the ease with which the finish coats can be applied over the factory-primed surface.
These long length factory primed items permit a builder to provide an exterior trim package that eliminates the use of finger jointed brickmould that is the cause of much paint failure. The PrimeTrim surface may have grooves or designs machined into its surface by router bits or CNC machining. The excellent moisture resistance of PrimeTrim will permit cutting through the surface to achieve these designs without loss of weatherability. The only requirement is for the machined areas to be properly primed with an acrylic exterior primer or oil alkyd primer prior to field finishing. Other trims failed against the elements in a number of categories.