Getting the House Painted

[blackdiamond]

It was way past time to get the exterior of my house painted.  I had several estimates and chose the highest bidder.  Not only does he seem to be a very detail orientated guy, he looked at the house like my home inspector did and recognized that it needed more than just the standard color coat.  The original paint job was done very poorly.

Today the crew showed up to pressure wash and it started "snowing" paint flakes.  The yard was covered.  The painter was guessing that it was oil base paint applied on a wet surface, he hadn't really seen anything quite like it.  The trim on the shed essentially lost off of its remaining paint during the wash job.  Ironically, the painter told me first thing that the intend of the pressure wash wasn't to remove paint but to get it clean and ready for the actual prep later.

The plan is to do one wall with elastomeric paint to seal up the siding that is in slightly less than perfect condition, followed by spray coat brushed and/or backrolled and then a full 2nd color coat.  The trim will also get two full coats.  He is also going to paint the foundation grey to cover the overspray from the last paint job.

My wife and I are trying to choose a color and are down to a blue or green with white or off-white trim and a bold door that will likely be a shade of red or yellow.  I'm painting a chunk of wood in the garage to give us a larger piece to compare the colors on.

Let's see pictures of your homes paint job.

[79coyotefrg]

Jon,  you know its  mandatory

[blackdiamond]

Some of the house and one of the dog while he was visiting the neighbors while work was happening.

[blackdiamond]

The paint crew arrived Monday morning and finished Tuesday afternoon (The boss has about 30 minutes of work on the foudation tonight to completely finish) and the transformation is amazing.  Monday's crew was 9 men strong and Tuesday started with 5 and ended with 7.  The put 28 gallons of blue, 8 gallons of white (they had to get more) and 8 gallons of elastomeric paint on the outside garage wall to seal the siding, subtracting the extra paint it was over 40 gallons of paint.  The house seemingly had never been painted properly before.

The first picture was the afternoon of day 1.

[ajordan1975]

looks great!!

[79coyotefrg]

now ya gotta paint the runner blue

[blackdiamond]

now ya gotta paint the runner blue

I keep it in the garage with the door shut so nobody will notice that it isn't blue.

[86bobbedtoy]

Im a ca liscensed painter.
what did they charge you?
if you dont mind me asking.
I like to see others prices, so when I bid a job.
Thanks.