Your house takes a beating out here. Salt air, afternoon storms and months of hard sun pull the color out of a wall faster than most people expect.
Color Masters Painting is an owner run crew in South Daytona, painting in this county since 2014. We repaint houses across Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Ormond Beach and the rest of Volusia County, and we will tell you honestly if yours does not need doing yet.
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What Is Actually Included in an Exterior Paint Job?
Preparation, mostly. That is the part that decides whether your paint still looks right in five years.
The house gets washed, then dries a full 24 hours. Painting over a damp wall is how a contractor buys himself a callback. After that: cracks sealed, loose paint scraped, windows and doors caulked, bare spots primed, everything else masked off.
Front doors, shutters and garage doors are in the estimate. Driveways, pool cages and fences are quoted separately, because each one is its own job with its own prep. Either way you see it itemized instead of buried in a single number.
How Long Will Exterior Paint Last on a Coastal Florida Home?
Seven to ten years on a typical house out here. Closer to the water, call it five to seven. Salt and moisture get into everything and they do not take a season off.
South and west walls fade first, almost every time. Block and stucco move with the heat and open hairline cracks that let water sit behind the coating, so those get filled with elastomeric patching compound or a masonry sealant first. Rusted nail heads get cleaned back and primed with Rust Destroyer. Skip that and the rust bleeds through your finish coat inside a year.
Beachside houses get more prep, not different paint. Salt gets washed off properly and the sealing stage takes longer than it would three miles inland. If your last paint job failed in three years, that was the preparation.
When Should You Repaint, and When Can It Wait?
Rub the wall. If chalk comes off on your hand, the old surface has broken down and it is time. Peeling around window frames and bare wood on a fascia board are the other two worth moving on, because both are letting water in.
If none of that is happening and the house just looks tired, a wash might buy you another season, and we will say so. The most expensive mistake homeowners make is taking the cheapest bid on the street. Thin prep and cheap paint peel and fade early, and then you are paying twice inside five years.
If the outside is fine and the inside is the problem, our residential painting covers everything indoors as well.
What Does an Exterior Repaint Cost?
About $1.50 per square foot under roof for a standard exterior repaint. That is a starting point rather than a quote, and we will tell you on the walkthrough if your house is not a standard one.
What moves the number: wall height, how easy the house is to get around, how much trim and fascia there is, whether there is crown or decorative work, and whether anything needs a lift to reach. A two story with tight access and a lot of detail prices differently from a single story block house on a flat lot. Estimates are free, and residential jobs take 20% down when you sign, with the balance when the work is done and you are happy with it.
How Many Days Will My House Be a Work Site?
Three to five on most houses. Size, weather and how much repair the place needs decide where you land in that range.
Day one is the wash and the walk around, where we write down every crack, every peeling patch and every soft board. Day two is prep: sealing, scraping, caulking, spot priming, masking, then Loxon Conditioner over the chalky areas to lock the old surface down so the new paint has something to hold onto. Days three and four are paint. Stucco gets sprayed and then backrolled, which works the coating into the surface instead of laying it on top, and the trim, fascia, soffits and doors go on at the same time. Doors we spray. A sprayed door has no brush marks in it, and on a flat panel front that is the whole difference.
Day five is the unglamorous one. Masking off, details chased down, site cleaned, then we walk the whole house with you before the truck gets loaded.
Have a look at photos of our recent painting projects to see how the finished work turns out.
Recent Exterior Work
Same House, Start and Finish
Three surfaces on one house, each wanting a different product. Carrying the blue across the lower block and back up into the gable is what makes the front read as one piece.
Exterior Painting Questions We Get Asked
When Is the Best Time to Paint the Outside of a House in Volusia County?
We paint year round, so the honest answer is whenever suits you. June through September are the hardest months, between the heat, the humidity and a storm most afternoons, so summer work starts earlier in the day and watches the forecast. Spring and autumn book up fastest.
What Paint Do You Use?
Sherwin-Williams Duration and Emerald Rain Refresh do most of our exterior work. Both are built for heat and humidity, and Rain Refresh sheds water instead of letting it sit, which matters more here than it would almost anywhere else. Primers depend on the surface: Loxon on bare stucco, Loxon Conditioner over chalky old paint, an exterior wood primer on bare timber. If you have a preference, tell us and we will price it that way.
One Coat or Two?
Two, nearly always. Color changes and bare surfaces need it, and two coats is what gets you the full life out of the product. One coat can be enough on a straight refresh of the same color where the existing finish is sound. We will tell you which one your house is after we have washed it.
What If the Paint Fails?
Every job comes with a written workmanship warranty, and the length is on your estimate because it depends on the surface. It covers peeling, blistering and flaking that trace back to our preparation or our application. A defective batch of paint falls under the manufacturer's warranty.
Can You Help With HOA Color Approval?
Many Volusia communities make the board sign off on a color before work starts. We will help you land on colors that fit your community's guidelines, but the submission itself stays with you, since boards want it from the homeowner anyway. Bring your HOA palette to the estimate and we will work inside it.
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