How to Determine if Your Washington Home Needs an Exterior Repaint This Spring

Our team at Cornerstone Painting tries to provide the most up-to-date information to our clients and neighbors in Woodinville WA and surrounding areas. With spring on its way, we know that many home and condo owners start to wonder about updating their home’s exterior paint. The best time to paint in the Pacific Northwest is between April and October during periods when the weather is ideal for paint curing with low to no precipitation and moderate temperatures.

Many home and condo owners are uncertain about when to seek help fromexperienced residential exterior painters for a springtime repaint job. This list outlines some of the top reasons to give us a call:

Your Home Doesn’t Meet Requirements

It’s time to call a professional painting firm if your home doesn’t reflect the necessary outward appearance required for an HOA neighborhood or a community that reflects a certain social or career status. When a home’s color scheme or paint condition don’t match nearby homes, the homeowner can experience penalties from an HOA or even local municipality. They can experience complaints from neighbors who feel that the home is causing their neighborhood home values to drop.

The exterior of your home can even impact your insurance rates, especially if the home looks dirty or poorly maintained. A power washing should reveal a bright, clean exterior. If it still looks dirty or old, then it’s time to hire a professional to give it a fresh coat of paint.

You Want a Change of Color

People’s personal preferences and national trends change all the time. If you’re tired of the current paint scheme or updating a recently purchased property, residential exterior painters can help you select and apply colors that make you feel more content with your home’s appearance. Although a Pacific Northwest palette of colors that match the region’s natural elements continues to trend in the Woodinville WA area, homeowners are also expanding their tastes with recent trends that lean more toward neutral and warm tones in similar shades.

Some homeowners are also forgoing emphasis on greige (gray and beige) schemes and navy blues and thinking more about farmhouse white, off-white and cream and even combinations of lighter shades of brown and gray or yellow with more traditional colors as accents.

Nature and Time Have Caused Damage

Homeowners often turn to professional exterior painting in springtime when they have no other choice because of noticeable damage from seasonal changes in temperature and moisture levels, including blistering, bubbles, cracks, flaking, peeling and stains. These issues happen when water flows behind the paint or mold or plants grow on and below surfaces. You might find that the paint has pitted or damaged areas from impacts from flying objects during storms and medium-to-large particles from dirt, pollutants and other debris in the air. You might also discover that the paint has broken down from age, chemical breakdown and wear and tear.

The problem sometimes starts with the underlying structure, which can lead to further damage to the paint or even expensive structural repairs. You might discover holes in wood or stucco that require repair or total replacement followed by repainting. A professional painter inspects these areas for underlying structural damage, makes local contractor recommendations, if necessary, removes old or damaged paint and replaces it with exterior painting products designed to provide years of durability against the elements and time.

Our Expert Residential Exterior Painters Are Here to Help!

Our Cornerstone Painting team is proud to offer affordable, fast, friendly, high-quality painting services to home and condo owners throughout the Woodinville WA region. Every member of our team is a fully licensed and insured professional tradesman with between five and 10 years of experience working in our painting firm. We love helping customers turn their dreams and renovation ideas into a reality. Call for more details and to schedule an inspection.