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Exterior painting in Newmarket
Exterior painting is mostly prep: wash, scrape, sand, prime and caulk, then two coats of a paint built for Ontario weather. Newmarket combines older frame and brick houses with plaster and low basements near Main Street and family subdivision housing with finished basements spread around them. Older houses bring wood siding, cedar trim and layered paint that needs scraping and priming, and newer ones bring stucco, fibre cement and vinyl that need the right primer and a vinyl-safe colour.
Concept imageryNewmarket, on the ground.
Garage and driveway access is easy in the subdivisions, and the crew carries equipment down the basement stair for a large share of the work. The crew washes and dries the house, scrapes and primes failing areas, masks windows and plants, paints the body then the trim and walks the property with you at the end.
In Newmarket the basement is often on the list, so the quote covers masonry primer, stain-blocking and the right coating for a wall that sits below grade.
Read more about painters in Newmarket or the full exterior painting page.
On the quote, from the start.
- 01A full walk around the house in daylight, with loose paint, soft wood and failed caulking marked before the quote
- 02Pressure wash or hand wash to remove chalk, mildew and dirt, then a drying period before any paint
- 03Scraping and sanding of failing paint, feathered edges, and spot or full priming where bare material shows
- 04New caulking at trim joints, window frames and siding ends so water stays out
- 05Two coats of exterior acrylic on siding and trim, brushed and rolled or sprayed and back-brushed depending on the surface
- 06Plants tied back, windows and hardscape masked, daily clean-up and a walk around with you at the end
No figures published. The drivers, in order.
| Driver | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Surface and its condition | Sound siding needing a wash and two coats is the baseline. Peeling paint, bare wood and failed caulking add scraping, priming and repair hours. |
| Height and access | A bungalow is reached from ladders. A two or three-storey house with steep grades may need staging or a lift. |
| Material | Smooth siding rolls quickly. Rough stucco, brick and cedar drink more paint and take more time per square metre. |
| Trim, doors and detail | Window grilles, shutters, railings and decorative trim are brushed by hand and add time out of proportion to their area. |
The season and the weather set the schedule as much as the scope does. We quote from a walk around the house, not from a photo, and the quote separates the body of the house from the trim.
Exterior painting questions from Newmarket
How early in the year can you start exteriors in Newmarket?
Once overnight temperatures in Newmarket stay above the paint's limit and the surfaces are dry. That is usually [May] for standard paint and a few weeks earlier with the low-temperature lines. We book spring exteriors over the winter.
Do I need a permit to paint my house in Newmarket?
No permit is needed for painting an existing house in Newmarket. Heritage-designated properties can have colour rules, so if your home is listed we ask before quoting a colour change.
There is a brown water stain on our basement ceiling from an old leak. Will it come back through the paint?
It will if it is just painted over. Water stains bleed through ordinary paint and primer. The crew seals the stain with a shellac-based or oil-based stain-blocking primer, lets it cure, then paints the ceiling as normal. If the stain is still soft or damp, the leak is not finished, and we tell you so before painting.
Should our deck be painted or stained?
Stained, in most cases. A penetrating or semi-transparent stain soaks into the wood and wears gradually rather than peeling. Paint or solid stain sits on top and looks uniform, but it peels on a deck floor that gets snow and sun. The deck is washed, sanded where it is rough and allowed to dry fully before anything goes on. We book deck work for dry, warm weather.