How a project works
- You send a request through the estimate form: your town, what needs painting, your timeline and anything you've noticed, like peeling on one wall or soft trim by the garage.
- We come out and look at the house. That means walking all four sides, checking for chalk and loose paint, probing trim, fascia and sills for rot, looking at caulk and cracks, noting whether the house was built before 1978, and measuring.
- You get a written scope. It lists each surface, the prep it gets, the products and sheens, the colors, and the number of coats. If something is excluded, it says so.
- We schedule around the weather. Data sheet temperature and dew point limits, spring cold snaps, summer afternoon storms and early fall freezes all move dates, and we tell you when they do.
- The work happens in the order the scope describes: prep and repairs, primer, then finish coats.
- We clean up each day and finish with a walkthrough, looking at the house with you and touching up anything that needs it before the job is called done.
Why we don't publish prices
Every house is measured, so we don't post prices on this site. Two houses with the same floor plan can need very different amounts of work. One has sound paint and needs a wash and two coats. The other has peeling south and west walls, rot at the fascia ends, failed caulk and a pre-1978 coating that calls for lead-safe prep. Story height, access, the number of colors and the condition of the trim all change the job.
A number on a web page would be wrong for most houses, so you get a written estimate after we've seen yours.
Prep comes first
Most exterior paint failures trace back to what happened before the paint: chalk left on the wall, loose edges painted over, bare wood left unprimed, drainage gaps caulked shut. So the scope spells out prep in plain terms, wall by wall, and the crew follows it. Details on how that work is done are on our exterior prep and repair page.
How we choose products
The surface decides the product. Stucco needs a breathable masonry coating or an elastomeric, depending on its condition. Wood, fiber cement and metal each need their own primer. Decks and fences need a stain category that suits the wood and the sun it gets. The scope names the product and sheen for each surface, and the paint maker's data sheet sets the temperature limits, dew point margin, recoat times and spread rate we work to.
What a repaint can and can't fix
Paint protects a house and changes how it looks. It doesn't fix water that's getting in from somewhere else. A leaking window flashing, a sprinkler soaking the same wall every night, swollen engineered siding, structural cracks in stucco and hail dents in a garage door are still there after the paint dries. When we see something like that, we say so in the scope and explain what it means for the paint, even when the honest answer is that a repaint won't last on that wall until the cause is fixed.
Request an estimate and we'll set up a time to look at your house.
