Your facade is the one part of the house the whole street sees. It sits a few feet from the pavement, shoulder to shoulder with your neighbor's, and there’s nowhere to stand back and squint at it. Peeling sills, a shutter dropping at the joint, a line that wanders where your brick meets theirs—all visible from the sidewalk. We repair those first and paint afterward, so what people walk past is a finished house.
On an attached house the setup is the hard part. There’s no driveway to work from and no side yard to stage in, so everything goes up once and everything else happens underneath it. Three things decide whether the finish holds.
Chalk, dirt and mildew come off first, and then the surface dries. Priming a damp wall seals water underneath the film, so the drying day is written into the schedule rather than skipped to save one.
We scrape, sand, prime, caulk, and paint sound exterior wood. Deteriorated sills or shutters that need structural repair are identified during the estimate and must be repaired by the appropriate specialist before finish painting.
Coatings need a surface above 50 degrees to cure into a durable film, and a shaded north wall stays cold long after the air has warmed. We take the reading off the wall rather than the forecast, and work the elevations in the order the sun reaches them.
Roughly twenty square blocks around Gay and High are built on narrow attached parcels with the front door opening straight onto the pavement. The sidewalk and the curb are the entire work area, which means the setup is sized to your actual frontage, a walkable path stays open past the house all day, and the street goes back to the neighbors every evening.
Sills, sash, shutter rails and the trim profiles that have been painted a dozen times all have to be made sound before a finish is worth applying. Two bids on the same home can sit thousands of dollars apart based on how much repair work is included. That’s why our proposals itemize every fix line by line and why we refuse to quote a historic facade from a photograph.
Sound original shutters can be prepared and refinished. If joints have opened, panels are distorted, or structural rebuilding is required, we identify that condition and recommend repair before painting.
No. We keep a walkable path past the house for the whole job and clear the tools and debris off the street at the end of every working day. If staging needs to cross onto a neighbor's frontage for a day, we tell you at the estimate and knock on their door before the first ladder goes up.
Book early in the season if you can. Our exterior window runs March through November, and the elevations that need the most repair are the ones worth starting while there’s a full stretch of warm weather ahead of them. Late November is the same conversation running the other way, when a wall stops holding temperature long enough for a coat to cure properly.
We will walk the frontage with you, check the sills and shutter rails, evaluate what the last coat is doing on each elevation, and measure. The proposal separates surface preparation from painting and identifies any structural repairs needed before coating.
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