Exterior Painting
Exterior Painting for Chicagoland Homes and Buildings
Prep done properly, then coatings chosen to suit the surface they are going on.
- Free estimatesNo obligation
- Stucco & EIFSWe install both systems
- Based in Northlake, ILLocally owned
- Serving ChicagolandWest suburbs to the North Shore
The work
Exterior paint in this climate has a hard job. It goes on in summer heat, sits through a winter of freeze-thaw, and gets hit by sun on one elevation and almost none on another. Whether it is still intact in five years is decided almost entirely by what happened before the first coat went on.
So that is where we spend the time: washing, scraping back to a sound edge, treating and spot-priming bare areas, sealing the joints that have opened, and letting a surface dry out properly before we coat it. We paint a lot of stucco and masonry, which brings its own rule — those walls need to breathe, so they get a vapor-permeable masonry coating rather than whatever happened to be on the truck.
Our process
How an exterior repaint runs
Each stage is written down in the estimate, so you know what is happening on your house and roughly when.
Free estimate and color
We walk the elevations, note what needs repair before paint, and write a scope that says exactly what gets coated and how many coats. Color samples go on the actual wall, not on a card.
Protect the site
Plants, walks, drives, roofs, windows and light fixtures get covered and masked before anything is opened.
Wash and dry
Surfaces are cleaned of dirt, chalk and anything growing on them, then given time to dry. Coating a damp masonry wall is the fastest way to lose the job.
Repair and prep
Loose material scraped back to a sound edge, cracks and open joints filled or sealed, bare and chalky areas spot-primed, and any failed caulk cut out and replaced.
Coat it
Breathable masonry coatings on stucco and masonry; the right trim and siding products everywhere else. Applied at the spread rate the manufacturer specifies rather than stretched.
Clean up and walk it
Everything comes off, the site is swept, and we walk the house with you before the ladders go on the truck.
Why us for this
What we bring to a repaint
We know what is under the paint
Because stucco is our trade, we can tell a crack that needs repairing first from one that can simply be coated. That saves you a repaint in two years.
Breathable coatings on masonry
Stucco and masonry walls move moisture. Trapping it behind a non-permeable film is how you get blistering and spalling, so we specify coatings that let the wall dry.
Repair and paint from one crew
If the prep turns up stucco that needs fixing, the same company fixes it. No scheduling two trades around each other and no finger-pointing.
A tidy site every evening
Materials put away, drop cloths managed, drives and walks clear. You live there while we work.
Questions
Things people ask us about this
When is the right time of year to paint outside in Chicago?
Late spring through early fall gives the most reliable temperature and humidity window. Products have minimum application temperatures and surfaces need to be dry, so we would rather schedule you properly than coat a wall that is not ready.
Can stucco be painted?
Yes, with a breathable masonry coating. It is also worth asking whether a new finish coat would serve you better — on a tired stucco elevation that is sometimes the longer-lasting answer, and we will tell you when we think so.
Do you repair before you paint?
Where the surface needs it, yes — cracks, failed sealant and damaged stucco are dealt with as part of the scope rather than painted over.
Where we work
Exterior Painting across Chicagoland
Pick your town for the local detail — architecture, weather exposure and what we tend to find on houses there.
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Other services
Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings and trim finished clean, with the site left the way we found it.
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New Construction Exteriors
Builder and GC work — scheduled to the trade calendar and finished on time.
View serviceCommercial Stucco & EIFS
Multi-unit, mixed-use and commercial elevations in stucco or EIFS.
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Free estimate on exterior painting.
Tell us about the project and we will come out, look at the wall, and give you a straight number.