It’s the attention to details that matters, but it may not matter more than it does when painting your house. You could spend days prepping surfaces, repairing rot and filling cracks, applying a primer coat, buying top-quality brushes and a high-grade paint and cover everything with drop cloths before you can paint the first stroke.

When You are Ready to Get Started with an Exterior Painting Project

As professional exterior house painting company, we respect our customers’ wishes. At Cornerstone Painting, we hope that you may reconsider and let us paint your home for you. But if not, we understand and support your decision. Here are some tips and techniques that can guide you through the process.

Exterior Prep Work

You should expect to spend the most time and effort on preparing the exterior surfaces than on painting. Preparation determines the quality of a job. With expert skill from our exterior painting services, we suggest that you pressure wash all surfaces with a chlorine bleach solution to get rid of residue from wind and rain. Pressure washing will help remove the grime, mildew, tree sap and sun-damaged paint that exposure to the elements in Woodinville, WA area has caused.

A professional exterior house painter can pressure wash your house, or you can rent or even buy a power washer at your local home improvement store. Their psi of about 2000 pounds makes them rather dangerous, but they can prep the exterior the way that you want. The restored surfaces can reveal any repairs that you need to make before you apply exterior house paint.

Exterior Repair

Any cracks that you detect around windows or doors, decorative molding and joints can allow water intrusion. This can cause rot in no time at all. Caulking can fill them and make them waterproof. Areas that reveal defects in paint need a light sanding to smooth the rough edges. It’s important to look for rot on fascia boards where they join the roof and replace or repair them.

Exterior Paint

The paint department in your home improvement store can guide you in the qualities of paint that make a difference in beauty and durability, and they have a wide range of paint chips that you can take with you. Make sure to get their suggestions for brushes and rollers, or you may want to rent a sprayer instead. As exterior house painters, we use masking tape to protect trim and window glass from getting paint on them.

Choosing the Right Exterior Painting Equipment

Anyone who has painted a house can tell you that it takes more equipment than you realize. The list of things needed may discourage you from a do-it-yourself project, but they make it possible for you to do a good job. Among the most needed items, a step ladder offers a more stable footing than an extension model. You will need scrapers to loosen peeling paint as well as steel wool or a wire brush to remove defects that the pressure washer missed.

A putty knife and caulking will let you fill in cracks, holes and crevices. Some sanding paper can come in handy to smooth out old, rough paint areas. Roller trays and a grid give you an efficient way to load the paint to prevent dripping, and a special comb helps you clean the brushes so that you can use them again. Make sure your paint store includes stir sticks and can openers when you buy the paint.

Selecting the Right Paint for the Exterior of Your Home

The elements in exterior paint differ from those for your interior. Pigment, binders and additives make a difference that can affect durability and beauty. A paint department at your local home improvement store can help you choose the best product.

Advances in technology have produced all-acrylic formulas that you can distinguish on labels that state “100 percent acrylic latex.” The paint remains breathable and flexible while retaining its color for a longer time than other products that contain vinyl resins or acrylic blends. The versatility of high-quality paints let you use them on masonry and metal as well as wood and vinyl.

Deciding to Take the Easy Way Out

By now, you may have decided that painting your house by yourself has too many requirements. Exterior house painters work long hours to do detailed work with state-of-the-art equipment. Your home’s façade gives your family and friends the best view of how you live, and it deserves a paint job that looks professionally done. At Cornerstone Painting, we take care of everything after you select a paint color.

When you let our painters do the job, you have no equipment to rent or buy, no strenuous labor in the sun to prepare the surfaces for paint, no carpentry to fix defects and no brushes to wash. We’ll get in and out quickly so that you can get back to the peaceful tranquility of a professionally painted home that you expect and deserve. Our reputation as premier exterior house painters in the Woodinville, WA area ensures you of a professional quality job by insured professional painters.

Choosing a Quality Exterior Painting Contractor

We guarantee satisfaction on every job, and we offer the highest skilled professional painters whose expertise will make your home or condo look almost new again. Every client is treated with the respect and appreciation that represents our philosophy of service to the community. Our exterior painting services ensure that your home will look great for years.