Exterior Services

Kansas City Area Exterior Painting

Need the entire exterior of your home painted? Some newer homes simply need the wood trim painted, but others need much more and we can handle both. Many homes in the Kansas City suburbs have masonite or wood siding that needs to be maintained, & repair to windows that take a beating due to the weather.

Decks need to be cleaned and sealed regularly to keep boards from warping and coming loose. Although the focus of the environmental movement has been on indoor paints, there are a few companies that can provide us with quality exterior products as well.

protect

As with Interior Painting, the first step is to protect...walks, plants, windows, drives, decks and other surfaces.

Wash

This is the step that differs from Interior Painting.  We almost always wash the exterior, usually with a mildecide to kill mildew and sometimes we wash to remove road dirt and dust.  Mostly with a power washer.  This is an important step where experience counts, because some old houses can be severly damaged by careless power washing.

prep

Surface preparation is the most important part of the process because without it, the job will not last. Usually we remove old paint, and clean old chalky painted surfaces. Removing old caulk and window glazing gets us down to solid surfaces. Scraping, sanding and sometimes the use of chemicals help us to remove old failed paint.

repair

This is where we remove old damaged and rotten wood.  By getting up close and personal, we really get to see the damaged stuff that you can't see from the ground.

replace

Next we replace damaged items.  A totally new material which we have begun to use to replace bad wood is PVC trim and moulding.  This is a synthetic wood made from poly vinyl chloride which looks exactly like wood, but is guaranteed to never rot.  Expecially on modern houses where every "finger jointed" wood is used, there is a lot of rot, and this PVC is a perfect, permanent fix.

prime

Now we start to bring it all together.  Using the correct primer for the job is key to guarantee a long life.  Many people including painters believe primer is not important.  We know through experience, classes and seminars, that primers are really meant to do a much different job than the paint.  We know that the proper primer can make a much better adhesion between old and new paint, seal stains and seal porous surfaces...some things that plain paint cannot do.

caulk and glaze

After the prime coat is dry we begin to caulk and replace glazing.  Many people put caulk and glazing on bare wood.  This is bad because there is poor adhesion.  The surfaces need to be primed prior to caulking and glazing.

paint

Last, but not least...and not until all of the other steps have been done...painting begins.  I often say that painting is the easy part.  Painting is usually the fastest part of the job, compared to all the prep that we do.  Only using the best paint and the proper paint that is compatible with the primer we have used.

cleanup

Bringing it all together and to completion, we clean up all traces of our work and leave you with a beautiful job that you can be proud of!

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