Painting Your House
Once you find a painter for the right price, you’ll want to know how long it will take to paint your house. Like many things in the contracting world, “it depends.”
House Painting Variables
It’s difficult to give an exact answer for how long it will take to paint a house for a number of reasons. Factors from the size of a home, it’s location, whether you’re having the interior, exterior or both of your home painted to how much prep work needs to be gone to get surfaces paintable all come in to play.
Here are the major considerations that influence the amount of time it will take to paint your home:
- The size of your house. the larger your home, the longer it will take to paint it. The number of stories your house has is also a factor. Two and three level houses will require the installation of scaffolding and safety equipment for exterior home painting. Larger homes also tend to have more trim and more windows, areas that take more time to paint well.
- Your home’s location. Hiring a local painter will get your job done quicker. You want to look for a painter who isn’t too far away from where you live. If a painter has to haul supplies, crew members and paint a long distance to your home, the job could take longer.
- Interior or exterior painting. Having the exterior of your home painted can move along relatively quickly if the weather is good, you have an experienced and efficient crew and your home is of a modest size. Painting interior rooms can be more time consuming. Painting walls and trim in each room, applying multiple coats and waiting for each one to dry and laying down drip cloths and other clean up procedures make interior painting a lengthier process. Having exterior and interior painting completed on your home will be a longer job than just one or the other. If speed is a major concern, consider hiring a contractor with a large crew that can work quickly.
- Painting preparation. Priming and painting brand new drywall or siding is a cinch. Scraping, sanding and cleaning old siding panels and foundations, or peeling wallpaper and chipped paint is a different story. Before a surface can be painted, it needs to be suitably smooth, dry and clean. The more preparatory work that is required for contractors to apply paint, the longer a house painting job will take.
Hopefully this article shed some light on the variables that affect the length of a house painting job.
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