What's included
- Clapboard, cedar shingle and shake siding
- Vinyl and aluminum siding (paintable formulas)
- Trim, corner boards, window casings and sills
- Soffits, fascia, rake boards and frieze
- Front doors, storm doors and shutters
- Porches, columns, railings and ceilings
- Garage doors and overhangs
- Foundation, bulkheads and lattice
Every line above is on the written estimate for your exterior painting job.
Wash, scrape, sand, prime — in that order
The house is washed to pull off chalk, pollen and mildew. Every failing edge is scraped back to sound material and feather-sanded so you cannot read the old paint line through the new coat. Bare wood is spot-primed the same day it is exposed, before it can take on moisture.
The rot gets fixed before the paint goes on
This is the part most painters hand off to somebody else. Soft sills, split clapboard, blown-out corner boards and rotted rake ends get replaced by the same crew, on the same job, at a price that is on your estimate up front. Paint over rot and you buy two more years. Replace it and you buy twenty.
Worth a look before you commit to anyone.
Caulk, coat and protect the site
Joints, butt seams and casing edges are caulked with a paintable elastomeric that moves with the wood. Shrubs, walkways, decks, windows and cars are covered. Chips are collected off the ground at the end of every day, and on a pre-1978 house the work area is contained and cleaned up rather than left on the lawn.
What it costs
Anybody who gives you a price for exterior painting over the phone, sight unseen, is guessing — and the guess is usually low so they can raise it later. The three things that actually move the number are the size of the job, the condition of what is already there, and how much repair work is hiding under the surface.
So we come look. The visit is free, it takes about thirty minutes, and you get an itemized written estimate with a fixed price you can hold us to. If a comparison quote comes in lower, bring it to us — we will tell you honestly what is missing from it.
Thirty minutes on site is all it takes to give you a fixed number.
Where we do this work
Exterior Painting is available across our full service area: Exterior Painting in Northborough, Exterior Painting in Westborough, Exterior Painting in Shrewsbury, Exterior Painting in Marlborough, Exterior Painting in Southborough, Exterior Painting in Hudson, Exterior Painting in Grafton, Exterior Painting in Boylston, Exterior Painting in Berlin, Exterior Painting in Worcester — plus Clinton, West Boylston, Bolton, Hopkinton, Ashland, Stow, Upton, Framingham and 180 towns in all across Central Mass and MetroWest.
