It’s time to paint the exterior of your house! The paint on your is starting to fade, or it’s time for a color change. Ainsworth Painting is a painting company that has trained professionals with the knowledge and skills to paint the outside of your home.
Painting the exterior of your home doesn’t only add curb appeal; it improves the life of your wood siding, fascia, and soffits. Properly applied coats of paint should protect your home for 7 to 10 years. And if your home has yet to be painted in the last ten years, it’s likely time to get a quote from a professional painting contractor like Ainsworth Painting. Ainsworth Painting serves Lake Jackson, TX, and Brazoria County.
What is Exterior Painting?
Exterior painting is applying paint to the outside of a house or building to protect the structure from premature rot or damage from the elements and insects. Paint outside a home includes painting siding, soffits, trim, doors, and windows. Also, it includes painting various materials such as brick, stucco, vinyl, aluminum, steel, wood, composite wood, fiber cement siding, and PCV.
Our Exterior House Painting Process
A good exterior paint job starts with ensuring that the surfaces to be painted are in good condition. When needed, we do exterior repairs. We will replace pieces of trim boards, siding, and soffits if they are damaged. We make sure that there aren’t any places that have rot or damage. While Ainsworth Painting won’t complete replacement siding projects, we can do minor repairs.
After we address all the repairs, we focus on removing any failing paint. We find on many houses that the old paint has failed on the exterior of homes and started to chip off. We remove the flaking paint by sanding and scraping. Once all the flaking paint is removed, we will pressure wash the house or building. Pressure washing the house is an essential step before painting. Pressure washing will remove dirt and grime from your home and any mold or mildew. All of which can impact the life of your exterior paint job.
We use high-quality caulk to fill any gaps. We prime any raw wood with a high-quality exterior grade primer before painting. We fill nail holes.
After all the prep work is done, we protect the areas that we don’t want to get paint on. Protecting means we use drop clothes to protect the concrete and roof and plastic to mask the windows.
Next, we apply one or two coats of quality exterior paint with a brush, roller, or paint sprayer. When painting is complete, we remove all the masking and clean up the area.
What Type of Paint to Use on Exteriors?
If you go into a paint supplier, seeing all the brands and types of paints available can be overwhelming. There are paints of different quality, price, and sheen. A gallon of exterior paint will cost between $40 to $100 per gallon. With most brands, the quality of paint increases with the price. Higher quality paint will have better acrylics, better color retention, better adhesion, and additives that protect the paint from mold and mildew. Top-tier paint will also last longer.
Using high-quality exterior acrylic paint can protect your home from the elements, improve the lifespan of the paint job, and save money in the long run.
You have various sheen options, too. Exterior paints come in flat, satin, semi-gloss, and gloss sheens. It is most common to paint the outside of a home with a paint that has a satin sheen. At the same time, flat sheens are becoming more popular.
Ainsworth Painting recommends using high-quality exterior-grade acrylic paint that has mildewcide additives. Quality paint will ensure that your paint lasts 7 to 10 years while protecting it from mildew.
Exterior Paint Additives
Exterior paint additives have additional benefits that protect your home from insects and mildew. Adding insecticide to the exterior paint protects your home from wasps and spiders building nests on your freshly painted house. Adding mildewcide to paint protects your home from mildew, mold, and algae.
Should I Apply One or Two Coats to the Outside
Applying one or two coats of paint to the outside of a home depends on the situation. If you are repainting your home with the same color, one coat is often enough to protect your home. If you drastically change the color, you may need two coats of paint to cover the existing color. If it is a new home or a home with new wood, the new areas must be primed and two coats of paint applied. The first paint job on a home is the most important because it is the foundation to which all future paint jobs will be applied.
Cost to Paint the Exterior of a House
The cost to paint the exterior of a house depends on the size, complexity, and repairs. Larger homes require more paint and labor to complete. The more complex or challenging the house is to paint, the higher the price. Is there a need for taller ladders and boom lifts? Does the roof have a steep pitch? Is it easy to access? Are there any repairs that need to be completed before we start, like wood replacement, caulking, or mildew removal?
All these factors into the cost of painting your home. Ainsworth Painting offers free exterior quotes so that you will know precisely how much painting your home will cost.