Exterior house painting in Houston, TX.

A full exterior repaint with us starts around $3,500, and that's Ray's own figure. Past it the price moves on the size of the elevation, how many stories there are, what the substrate is, and how much of the last coat is still holding on. Trim-only and partial jobs price lower and fall back to our $1,000 residential minimum. The painting cost calculator on this site will give you a range for your own house before you call.

Square footage on its own doesn't decide an exterior price, which is why nobody who quotes you honestly will answer with one number. A single-story 2,000 square foot ranch with sound siding and a two-story 2,000 square foot stucco house with failing paint are different jobs at the same floor area. What decides it is the elevation size, the substrate, the condition of the existing coating and the access. Ray measures yours and writes the figure down.

A smaller house lands nearer the $3,500 exterior starting figure, assuming the siding is sound and the access is open. Add a second story, swap the siding for stucco or brick, or find the south elevation peeling and it climbs from there. We'd rather show you the range and then walk it than quote a number that has to be revised the day we arrive.

Exterior paint in Houston works hard, because the UV load is high and the humidity stays high for much of the year. A properly prepared repaint on a sound substrate holds for years, and the same paint over a surface nobody washed or primed will fail in a fraction of that. Preparation decides the lifespan far more than the product does, which is why our quotes itemize the prep.

Houston has a longer exterior painting season than most of the country, and the practical limits here are rain and dew. Spring and autumn are the easy windows. Summer works if the crew chases the shade around the house instead of following the sun. Hurricane season means building weather days into the schedule, and we put them in from the start.

Watch the south and west elevations, because they will tell you before the north side does. Chalking that comes off on your hand, color that has gone flat, caulk lines opening at the trim and any coating starting to lift at an edge all mean it's time to repaint. Repainting while the surface is still sound is cheaper than repainting after it fails, because the preparation work is a fraction of the job.

Houses built before 1978 can contain lead paint, and disturbing it is federally regulated under the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting rule. Exterior work disturbs a great deal of paint, so this matters outside as much as it does inside. The rule requires a certified firm, containment and specific work practices. Rise and Prime Painting is an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm. Ask every painter quoting your older house for their firm certification number.

Different substrates want different coatings, and matching them is most of what a spec is. Masonry and stucco are alkaline and porous, so they take a masonry coating built for that. Fiber cement and wood siding take a premium exterior acrylic. Exterior wood such as fences and decks takes a penetrating coating that soaks in and fades back gently. We name the Sherwin-Williams product for your surfaces on the quote, before you sign.

Yes. We're aerial lift certified, which is what a three-story gable, a steep-pitch elevation or a tall entry wall requires. Ladders have a limit, and past it the work needs a lift, which is why we'll quote the custom homes north of Houston.

Exterior painting is weather work, so the schedule has weather days in it from the start. We watch dew point as closely as rain, because a coating that goes on a damp surface fails whatever the forecast said. During hurricane season we sequence the elevations so no part of the house is left open to wind-driven rain overnight. You get told when the schedule moves, on the day it moves.

The preparation work decides it. Pressure washing, scraping, sanding, caulking, priming bare spots and repairing wood all happen before any finish coat, and a house whose old coating is failing has far more of that in front of it than one that's merely tired. That's true of any exterior house painting job, old coating or new. Ray gives you the schedule with the quote, measured on your own elevations.

On a Houston exterior the areas worth the closest look are the fascia and soffit, the sun-exposed elevations, the trim, and anywhere moisture has been getting in. We would rather find the most weathered areas on your own house during the inspection than tell you in advance which component goes first, because that order changes from house to house depending on shade, drainage and what was put on last time.

Exterior surfaces get cleaned and prepped as the condition of the surface requires. Most repaint projects involve pressure washing or another appropriate cleaning method, and which one your house needs is part of what the inspection decides. A coating bonds to the substrate and not to the chalk, dust or growth sitting on it, so whatever is on there has to come off first.

Yes, and we price it separately, because rot is a carpentry problem wearing paint. Painting over soft wood buys you one season and costs you the repair anyway. We replace what's gone, prime the new material and then paint it with everything else. Wood rot is also the one answer that stops our estimator giving you a number, because nobody can price it from a form.

The 3-Year Workmanship Warranty comes in writing and covers failures caused by our workmanship on surfaces we prepared and painted: premature peeling, blistering or flaking from improper application. Coverage begins on the day the project is completed. It does not cover water intrusion, structural movement, substrate failure, existing coatings failing underneath ours, mold or mildew, rust coming through, wear and tear, impact, third-party repairs, wood rot, caulk movement from the building moving, or a manufacturer's product defect.