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Exterior painting in North York
Lots are wide and driveways are deep, so the crew parks on site and sets up sprayers and scaffold in the garage without blocking the street. 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. Exterior painting is mostly prep: wash, scrape, sand, prime and caulk, then two coats of a paint built for Ontario weather.
Concept imageryNorth York, on the ground.
North York holds postwar bungalows with plaster ceilings and stained trim on the same streets as new rebuilds with nine and ten foot ceilings and builder flat paint. 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. Full interior repaints of new rebuilds, trim and door enamelling in older bungalows, tall foyers and stairwells, and cabinet refinishing.
A new build in North York looks finished and is not, because builder flat paint needs a primer coat before any real colour will sit evenly on it.
Read more about painters in North York 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 North York
How early in the year can you start exteriors in North York?
Once overnight temperatures in North York 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 North York?
No permit is needed for painting an existing house in North York. Heritage-designated properties can have colour rules, so if your home is listed we ask before quoting a colour change.
How do you paint walls that are ten feet tall without damaging the floors and furniture?
Furniture is moved to the centre and wrapped, floors are covered end to end, and the crew works from extension poles, ladders and a plank for the cut line at the ceiling. On a stairwell or a two-storey foyer a small scaffold goes up instead of a ladder. The height adds time and equipment, which is why tall rooms are listed separately on the quote.
Our new North York house still has builder paint. Why does it need a primer before the new colour?
Builder flat paint is applied thin and is usually a low-grade product, so it absorbs the next coat unevenly and the finish dries blotchy, especially in a deep or saturated colour. A tinted primer coat seals it and gives the two finish coats a uniform base. On a new house that is the difference between a wall that looks sprayed and one that looks patched.