Everyone knows that nothing lasts forever; this includes the paint on the exterior of your house as well. A combination of sun, rain, snow, sleet and wind causes the paint to eventually fail, peeling away from the surface; exposing the untreated wood to the elements as well as making the house to appear unsightly. Painting the exterior of the house as a do-it-yourself project is not technically difficult but there is more to it than the level of difficulty. Painting can be very time consuming, certainly messy and it can be physically taxing. Hiring an exterior painting service in Edmonton can be a viable alternative but a professional painter may not come cheap and finding one to do an excellent job during that time of year when outdoor painting can be done may not be easy.
Before thinking that painting your house is something you can do, stop and think a moment. Long before the paint goes on the old paint must come off, the surface must be scrapped and sanded prior to priming the surface. The scrapping and sanding is not a pleasant task, it is hard work and you have to be flexible to get in some hard to reach areas of the house. Although preparing and painting a small house may be possible, anything larger than the average size house should be left to a professional painter and his crew.
As well as the difficulty of preparing the house there are also expenses that the normal homeowner may not have taken into account. Of course there is the paint but often the homeowner neglects to think of the cost of renting a sprayer, purchasing the necessary brushes and rollers and getting a ladder. By the time all these items have been purchased and arranged the eventual cost can easily add up to more than the cost of hiring an exterior painting service in Edmonton in the first place.
Although painting may look to be straight forward there actually is a considerable amount of expertise involved to do a good job. Professional painters will mask all the areas that are prone to overspray including the windows, pipes and the gardens which are in close proximity to the house. A team of professional painters will be able to finish the job far faster than any weekend DIY project. With the weather being what it is having a housepainter do the job quickly is far better than leaving a partially prepared house in limbo for a few weeks.
When it’s time to paint the exterior of your house just remember there is far more to it than meets the eye.
