Exterior Painting Season

It's almost exterior painting season, how can we tell?
Every time the weather breaks for a day or so we get ten calls asking why we haven't started someone's project yet.

It never fails, we can come out of the coldest, wettest winter, it can snow yesterday but when it hits 40 degrees or so everyone will call, we chalk that up to excitement in getting the project done.

However we must have realistic expectations and know when it is really time to start your exterior painting, what no one wants to do is start a project and then the weather goes back down and we have to stop, and now we have ten projects started that we cannot finish, have to start new ones to keep everyone working and just a cluster of incomplete work.

Every painting contractor I know has come out of the worst 2018, weather-wise and many projects were held over to be done in the Spring, add to that your other work still scheduled and you have an interesting painting schedule to deal with.

Also, the temps are still dropping below freezing at night if you paint too far into the afternoon and the temperatures fall you could have some issues with the coatings.

We like to watch the weather closely and look ahead at the long range forecast and try to set projects up that way in the order that they were booked.

Remember there are other projects going on then just one and many that were booked ahead of yours, patience is the key when working with any good contractor.

Most paints now can go down to about 37 degrees, maybe a bit lower but we try to not press that if it is not absolutely needed. For the typical homeowner, this is not needed and they should simply wait, the projects that have to be done for a sale or a business or other reason other than we simply want it done are the priorities this time of the year.

Let's all hope for a great mild Spring and awesome summer so we can get all of our projects done early and or on time. We get to work with so many great people and businesses I wish we could do them all at one time but obviously, that is impossible.