Exterior Painting
Siding, stucco, trim, soffits and doors. A licensed exterior painting company that works your area inspects the surface, tells you what has to be repaired first, and gives you a firm written price.
Takes about 30 seconds. We call you back the same day to set the visit.
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What your house is made of
Exterior estimates vary more than interior ones, and the biggest reason is what the paint is going on. Two houses of the same size can be thousands apart because of material alone.
Common across the south and southwest. Absorbs a lot of paint, and hairline cracking is normal and has to be patched before coating. Elastomeric products cost more and bridge cracks.
The most prep-heavy. Scraping, sanding, spot priming and replacing rotted boards. Where a cheap bid usually cut the corner.
Holds paint well and needs the least prep, mostly washing and caulking. Usually the cheapest exterior per square foot.
Can be painted, and it is close to permanent: stripping it later is expensive. Needs masonry primer and a breathable product.
Paintable with the right product, but the color has to be as light as or lighter than the original, or the panels absorb heat and warp.
Chalks with age and has to be washed hard before anything else, or the new coat peels with the chalk under it.
Where you live changes everything
An interior repaint lasts as long as you like the color. An exterior lasts as long as the weather lets it, and that number is different in every market.
In the coastal south, ultraviolet, salt and humidity work on the same wall at once, and a south-facing elevation can fade years before the north side. In the north, the freeze and thaw cycle pushes moisture into every crack and lifts the film from the edges. In the dry southwest, the sun alone chalks a finish that would last twice as long a thousand miles east.
This is why a national average for how often to repaint is close to useless. Ask a local painter what they see in your neighborhood.
Prep on an exterior
Timing
Exterior work is the only kind of painting the weather can cancel, and a painter who ignores that is costing you the job twice.
Nothing goes on a wet surface, and a wall needs time to dry after washing or after a storm. A day of rain usually costs more than a day of schedule.
Most products want roughly 50 to 90 degrees to cure properly. Too cold and the film never hardens, too hot and it skins over before it bonds.
High humidity stretches drying time between coats. Wind above about 15 miles an hour makes spraying impossible without overspray landing on the neighbor.
In hot, humid markets the best window is usually the drier months, and crews book out early for them. In cold markets the season is short and everyone competes for the same weeks. Booking off-season is the easiest way to get a better price on an exterior.
What our own demand data shows
We track how often households in this market go looking for exterior work, and the curve is not subtle. Midsummer runs a little over twice the volume of the quietest month of the year, and it is the same peak every year.
That peak lands in the hardest stretch of the calendar to actually finish an exterior. So the year works against you twice over. In the easy months the queue is long and the good crews are already committed. In the busy months the crews have room but the sky decides the pace, and a job that should take five days takes nine.
The way through is unglamorous: get the walkthrough done when nobody is rushing, agree the scope in writing, and take a slot months ahead. The households that call at the peak asking for next week end up either waiting anyway or buying a hurried job.
How to use the calendar
Scope, before the quote
We see what people write down when they go looking for an exterior painter, and a large share of it sits beside painting rather than inside it. None of it is a daft question. It just belongs on its own line of the estimate, and discovering that on day three is how a job becomes a change order.
Carpentry that has to be finished before any coating goes on. Most companies handle the small amount; a structural quantity of it needs its own line and sometimes its own trade.
Coating a cracked or warped panel does not straighten it. Replacing cladding and painting cladding are unrelated pieces of work with unrelated prices.
Horizontal concrete is a separate product system that wears and fails in its own way. It is rarely part of a house repaint, even when the same company can do it.
Aluminium framing wants its own preparation and its own coating. Worth quoting on its own so you can decide it on its own merits.
Ask for each of these as a separate line even when one company does all of them. Rolled into a single figure, you cannot tell what you are giving up when you ask for the figure to come down.
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