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What does exterior painting cost, and what decides it?

Exterior painting is priced by the surface rather than by the square footage. Washing, scraping, filling and priming are most of the labour, so a house whose paint is peeling back to bare wood costs more than a larger house in sound condition. What the walls are made of decides the rest.

Ranges come from the same pricing engine a real task is quoted against. Carpentry, rotten trim replacement and scaffolding are separate lines — a quote carrying none of them has assumed the surface is sound. How we price

What an exterior quote should name

Two prices for the same house are usually two different amounts of preparation. These are the lines that show which is which.

Painting brick is a decision you cannot take back

Brick is porous, and it works by letting moisture that gets into the wall dry outward through its face. A film of paint closes that path, and in a climate that freezes and thaws dozens of times a winter the trapped moisture pushes the face off in flakes. That is spalling, and it does not grow back. A hundred-year-old Toronto brick wall that has never been painted is usually best left alone, or treated with a breathable mineral coating chosen for exactly that job. Once it is painted the house is committed: stripping brick is expensive, rarely complete, and often takes more face off than it saves. If the reason is appearance rather than repair, it is worth a second opinion before the first coat.

How to book exterior painting with Taskly

  1. 1Describe your exterior painting job in a few details.
  2. 2Receive offers from reviewed, ID-verified Taskers.
  3. 3Compare profiles and quotes before you choose.
  4. 4Book the Tasker that is right for you.
  5. 5Confirm the work and payment is released.

Aluminum, vinyl and stucco are not one surface

Aluminum chalks — the surface oxidises into a fine powder that nothing will stick to, so it is washed, sometimes scrubbed, and primed with a bonding primer before any topcoat. Vinyl carries a rule that is not negotiable: it expands and contracts with heat, and a colour darker than the original makes it absorb more of it and warp permanently, so paints made for vinyl are sold with a limit on how dark you may go. Stucco takes a masonry or elastomeric coating rather than an ordinary house paint, and its cracks are filled before coating rather than bridged by it. A quote that names the product for your particular wall has looked at the house. One offering two coats of exterior paint has not.

Questions

Exterior painting questions

The ones this page owns — the rest live on the painting page.

How long does exterior paint last here?

On sound, well-prepared wood, roughly seven to ten years, and less on the south and west elevations, which take the sun and the driving rain. Failure almost always starts at horizontal surfaces and trim joints rather than in the middle of a wall, which is where to look for it first.

Can aluminum siding be painted?

Yes, and it usually costs far less than replacing it. The whole result is in the wash: aluminum chalks as it ages, and paint over that powder peels inside a season. It has to be cleaned back to a surface that squeaks, then primed with a bonding primer made for it.

What about vinyl siding?

It can be painted, with one constraint. Vinyl expands in heat, and a colour darker than the original absorbs more of it and can buckle the panels for good. Paints made for vinyl carry a reflectance limit for that reason, and a painter who has not raised it has not done this before.

When can it be done in the GTA?

Roughly late May to late September, because the product needs surface and overnight temperatures above about ten degrees. That compresses the whole region into four months, so an August enquiry is often a next-year booking and the crews worth having are taken from spring.

Is power washing enough preparation?

It is the first step, not the preparation. Washing removes dirt, chalk and mildew, and the house then has to dry properly — days rather than hours on wood. Scraping, filling, sanding and priming come after, and they are what a longer quote is longer for.

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