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Exterior Painting

Peeling siding, trim, porch columns and garage doors — scraped back and repainted properly

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.

Exterior painting prices in Philadelphia

This work is priced from a photo: send a picture of the job and a fixed price comes back the same day.

  • Minimum call-out — $75 · small job or a look at the problem
  • Hourly, odd jobs — $85/hr · when the job is hard to size up front

Prices are for labour. Materials, hardware and paint are billed separately.

How a job is priced, booked and guaranteed

  • Send a photo of the job and the price comes back the same day.
  • A fixed price in writing before I start.
  • One craftsman from the first measurement to the clean-up — no call center, no subcontractor you have never met.
  • Workmanship is warranted for one year from completion.
  • If it isn't right afterwards, I come back and make it right, free.

Call or text (267) 679-8533.

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