Weather-Tight Finish That Holds Up
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Exterior painting covers siding, trim, doors, shutters, and exterior wood surfaces. Done right, it includes power washing, scraping loose paint, sanding rough edges, caulking gaps, priming raw or repaired wood, and two coats of weather-rated paint applied at proper temperature and humidity. The whole point is paint that bonds to the substrate and stays bonded.

Most exterior paint lasts 8–12 years on wood siding, 10–15 on fiber cement, 5–8 on stucco. Triggers: visible peeling or fading, chalking surface (powdery residue when rubbed), bare wood showing, mildew streaks, or just being tired of the color. Selling a house? Fresh exterior paint is one of the highest-ROI improvements.

Exterior work is priced off the prep, not the paint. Two houses the same size can be completely different jobs — one needs a wash and two coats, the other needs half the south wall scraped to bare wood, primed, rotten trim cut out and replaced, and every joint re-caulked. Height and access are the next lever: second-story gables, a steep lot, and anything that needs staging instead of a ladder all add hours before a brush moves. Substrate matters too — wood siding takes more prep than fiber cement, stucco drinks more product, and painting brick is a one-way decision. Homes built before 1978 fall under EPA RRP lead-safe rules, which means containment, dust control, and disposal we build into the schedule. A full exterior is a week or more of work, so it earns the drive — we run these out of Easley across the Greenville area and out into western North Carolina and northeast Georgia. Most exteriors run 5–10 working days and we schedule against the forecast: we don't paint in rain, above 85% humidity, or on a wall sitting at 130°F.

Our summers push surface temperatures past 130°F on south-facing walls — the same on a house in Greenville as one over the state line in Hendersonville or across the Georgia border. Exterior paint has to be rated for that or it bubbles and peels. Humidity is the other half: paint applied above 85% humidity never bonds properly, and we get plenty of days here that sit above the line. Quality products put on inside the right window take 100°F summers and 20°F winters for over a decade. Cheap paint — or the right paint applied on the wrong day — fails in 1–3 years.