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Exterior painting in Pickering
Exterior painting is mostly prep: wash, scrape, sand, prime and caulk, then two coats of a paint built for Ontario weather. Pickering is largely 1990s and 2000s drywall subdivision housing with original cabinets and builder trim, plus older plaster stock near the lake and country properties to the north. 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 imageryPickering, on the ground.
Attached garages and wide driveways make it easy to park the van and set up a sealed spray area for cabinet doors, while rural addresses need the route confirmed first. 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.
Kitchens in Pickering are often at the age where the cabinet doors are tired but sound, so refinishing them is quoted alongside the walls.
Read more about painters in Pickering 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 Pickering
How early in the year can you start exteriors in Pickering?
Once overnight temperatures in Pickering 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 Pickering?
No permit is needed for painting an existing house in Pickering. Heritage-designated properties can have colour rules, so if your home is listed we ask before quoting a colour change.
Our 1990s kitchen has thermofoil cabinet doors. Can those be painted?
Yes, if the film is still bonded to the door. Thermofoil is cleaned, scuff-sanded lightly, primed with a bonding primer made for slick surfaces and sprayed with two coats of enamel. Where the film is peeling at the edges, usually near the dishwasher or the range, those doors are either repaired or replaced before spraying. We check every door at the walkthrough and tell you which ones need help.
There is a sponge-painted faux finish in our dining room. Can you just paint over it?
Not well. A sponged or ragged finish has texture and multiple glaze layers that show through a flat colour as blotches. The crew sands the wall to knock down the texture, skims it where needed, primes the whole surface and then applies two coats. It is more prep than a plain wall, which the quote shows, but it is the only way to get a clean result.