Guides

The questions people actually ask before they hire a painter.

Four guides, written from work across Miami-Dade and Broward rather than from a template. No price ranges, because nobody can price a house they have not seen. What is here is what changes the outcome.

  • Written from jobs in this county, not from a national template
  • Our own numbers, labelled as ours
  • No invented price ranges
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Why these exist

Written from jobs in this county, not from a calculator.

Most of what is published about hiring a painter is written by people who have never stood in a Miami driveway in August. It reads the same everywhere, because it was written to rank everywhere. The advice about drying times comes from a state where it does not rain at four in the afternoon, and the advice about salt comes from nowhere at all.

These guides come out of work across twenty-five cities in Miami-Dade and Broward, out of reading what thousands of people typed into a search bar before they called somebody, and out of what crews find once the pressure washer is off and the wall is dry. Where a number is ours, we say so. Where something is a rule of thumb, we say that too.

They will not give you a price. Nobody can price a repaint without seeing the house, and the honest guides in this trade admit it in the first paragraph rather than burying a range that fits nobody.

Start here

Four questions worth answering before you call anyone.

The one thing to take away

The estimate is the product, not the paperwork.

Everything in these guides points at the same moment: somebody standing at your house, looking at the surfaces, and writing a number they will hold to. A quote given over the phone is a guess dressed as a price, and it gets revised the day the crew sees what is actually there.

A real visit takes forty-five minutes to an hour on a house. It covers the elevations you never look at, the wood you assume is fine, the caulk joints around every opening, and the parts of the interior where the last painter cut a corner. It costs you nothing and it is the only part of this process that produces a number you can plan around.

What a good visit covers

Ask whether all of this happened

  • Every elevation walked, including the side nobody sees from the street
  • Wood trim, fascia and sills checked by hand, not from the ground
  • Caulk joints at windows, doors and penetrations counted, not estimated
  • Interior ceilings and trim measured separately from wall area
  • Access, storeys and staging discussed, because they move the number more than colour does

A test you can apply anywhere

How to read any guide in this trade, including ours.

There is an enormous amount of home improvement writing online and almost none of it says where its claims came from. Three questions sort it quickly, and they work just as well on this site as on anyone else's.

Who wrote it, and do they do the work? A page written by a publisher that sells advertising to contractors has different incentives from one written by people whose crews are on site. Neither is automatically dishonest. The incentive is simply worth knowing before you weigh the advice.

Where did the numbers come from? A figure with no source behind it is decoration. If a page gives a range for your area, look for how it was gathered. Aggregated national averages, reprinted from one another, are the most common filler in this category and they describe nobody's house.

What does it refuse to tell you? Honest material has edges. A guide that answers every question, including the ones that genuinely depend on seeing the property, is not being generous, it is being careless.

Applying it here

Our own answers to those three

  • Written by the team booking and running repaint work across Miami-Dade and Broward, so the bias is toward people who eventually want to quote your house. Now you know
  • Our numbers come from campaigns we pay for and jobs that got done. Where a figure is ours, it says so on the page
  • Where something is a trade rule of thumb rather than measured, it is labelled as one
  • We will not publish a price range for your house, because the honest version of that number requires standing in front of it
  • Anything we get wrong, tell us and it gets corrected rather than quietly left up

Looking for a city instead

The city pages go deeper on one place.

Each one is written for how that market is actually built: what the housing stock is, what fails on it first, and what has to be settled before a crew is booked. If your address is in one of them, start there.

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