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Exterior painting

Siding and trim, and the repairs that come with them. Most of our exterior jobs land between $5,200 and $9,700, and the rest of this page is what happens for it.

$5,200 to $9,700

A wash, a scrape, caulk at the joints and primer on the bare spots, then two coats over the siding, trim, soffit, fascia and doors.

The middle job was $7,500. The six things that move it.

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What the work involves

An exterior repaint is mostly prep, and prep is what decides how long the paint lasts. The house gets washed. Loose and peeling paint gets scraped and sanded back to something sound.

Soft wood gets repaired before anything covers it. Trim boards, sills and the bottoms of corner boards are where it usually is. We repair it rather than paint over it, and some of it only shows up once the scraping starts.

Then caulk at the joints, primer on bare wood and repairs, and the coats. Body, trim, and whatever else you have picked out, like the front door.

Plants, decks, windows, lights and anything else that is not being painted gets covered. The crews clean up, usually at the end of each day, depending on what makes sense for the job.

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What we paint outside

  • Siding
  • Trim
  • Front doors and other exterior doors
  • Wood rot repair, and the carpentry that comes with a repaint

Priced on their own

  • New siding and new windows. Both are sold on this side of the company, and both are their own job.
  • Carpentry past rot repair.
  • Commercial and apartment work. We take it, and it is not inside these numbers.

Houses we painted

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  • The same house after painting: blue stucco with white trim around the arched entry and the gable
    A two story stucco front before painting: beige walls and beige trim over a stone base
    Before After
    A two story front, beige to blueEverything the eye lands on from the driveway: stucco, soffit, fascia, the gable and the surround around the door.
  • The same house after painting: gray lap siding with white window trim and a repainted deck rail
    A house before painting: tan siding with paint peeling in sheets off the lower boards
    Before After
    Peeling siding, scraped and repaintedThe old paint came off in sheets. Scraped, primed and two coats.
  • The same house after painting: white board and batten siding, black window trim and a white gable
    A two story house before painting: tan board and batten siding with tan window trim
    Before After
    Tan to white, board and battenSiding and battens first, then the window trim, the gable and the porch posts.
  • The same porch after painting: stucco, arches, columns and trim freshened up
    A porch before painting: chalky stucco under the arches with worn column bases
    Before After
    A porch, arches and columnsStucco, columns and soffit, and then the trim under the arches, which is all brushwork.

More of our work.

When can you paint outside?

Spring through fall is the season for it, and a mild stretch in winter can still work. The cutoff is the overnight low: at 35 degrees or under we don’t paint, because the coat is still curing after the crew leaves. The whole answer is here.

How long does it take?

Usually 2 to 4 days. How much scraping your house needs is what moves it, and the weather sets the calendar around it. Here’s the order the work goes in.

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The numbers behind this page: what moves the price of an exterior job. Or what it has cost in the Northland, Parkville and Lee’s Summit.

What Kansas City does to a paint job

A house here takes a beating that a house in a mild climate doesn’t, and most of what shortens a paint job in this metro comes down to four things.

Winter, going back and forth across freezing

We don’t get one long freeze. We get a thaw on Tuesday and a hard freeze on Thursday, over and over from December to March. Water sits in an open joint, freezes, and pushes that joint a little wider. Then it thaws and more water goes in. That’s why caulk lines here fail from the ends first, and why a wall somebody caulked badly four years ago is already open again.

It’s also why caulk goes on after the scrape and before the primer. A bead of caulk sitting on top of finished paint has nothing to hold onto.

Summer, and the surface temperature

In July the air might say 92 and the south wall says 140. Paint that goes on a wall that hot skins over before it can level out or bond, and you get a finish that looks fine in August and is chalking by the next summer. So the crew follows the shade around the house instead of working straight through.

Spring, and what the storms leave behind

Hail doesn’t usually take paint off. What it does is bruise soft siding and open the seams and nail heads, and then the next wet spell gets in behind. After a bad spring the real question is paint or siding. We’ll tell you which.

Fall, and the dew

Late in the year the dew comes early and sits late. That’s a late start rather than a lost day: as long as there’s no water running down the siding, it can be painted. What does move the last good week of the season is the nights, which is why booking in February beats booking in September.

The temperature side of this has a page of its own: when is it too cold to paint outside? The short version is 35 degrees overnight.

The paint we put on

  • Sherwin-Williams
  • Benjamin Moore
  • Behr
  • PPG

Most of our jobs go on in Sherwin-Williams. If the color you have settled on is a Benjamin Moore, a Behr or a PPG, we will use theirs instead. Pick the color you want and we will get it.

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