While we prefer staining your shingles, but if you decide to paint them the wood’s natural grain will not show through the paint. Paint sits atop your shingle, while stain seeps into it, protecting it both on the outside and from within. To paint a shingle, be sure to apply a stain-blocking primer before applying two coats of exterior paint.
Staining your cedar siding protects it, seeps inside the wood, and allows the shingles’ wood grain to show through. Most of the time, we use transparent, semi-solid, and solid stains on cedar shingle siding. Transparent stains allow the wood grain to show while semi-solid and solid stains increasingly hide the wood grain of the shingles.
If you love the look of raw cedar shingle siding but want the wood to be protected, we can apply a transparent stain that shows the grain and texture of the wood. Understand that clear stains need to be applied more frequently than more opaque stains.