Exterior Painting

Scraped back to something solid, primed where it needs it, and painted so it stays put. Paint on the outside of a house does not fail evenly. It goes on the south wall, on the trim over the garage, on the porch columns that take the weather — and once it starts lifting, water gets behind it and the wood underneath starts to go.

Priced from a photo · a front elevation is usually a day

What that covers

• Siding scraped back, sanded where it lifts, and repainted to a clean line
• Trim, fascia and soffits — the parts that fail first and get skipped most
• Porch columns, posts and arches, cut in by hand rather than sprayed and hoped
• Garage doors and surrounds, prepped properly so the finish does not peel by spring
• Bare and weathered wood primed before the topcoat, not painted straight over

Why homeowners call for this one

Two reasons, usually. The house is going on the market and the front elevation is what every photograph shows. Or the peeling has been ignored for a couple of seasons and it is starting to be about water, not about looks.

This is one job where the before and after is genuinely dramatic — the same wall, the same light, a few hours apart. There are examples on the home page, and they are my own photographs of my own work.

Send a photo of the wall from a few steps back, and one close up of the worst patch, and you will get an honest price for what it actually needs.