Exterior Painting · University Park, TX

University Park exteriors, on streets with no room to work.

The constraint here is rarely the paint. It is the lot: narrow frontages, cars parked both sides, a neighbor fifteen feet away, and a city that takes contractor conduct seriously.

Here is what exterior painting in University Park actually involves.

We plan access before the schedule. On these frontages there is often nowhere to leave a trailer, so equipment comes in and out daily and we agree parking at the walkthrough rather than working it out on the morning. Spraying is the other consideration — with a neighbor that close, a windy day means brushing and rolling rather than spraying, which costs a few hours and removes an entire category of problem.

Technically the work divides with the housing. On the pre-war houses it is original wood windows whose glazing putty has hardened and dropped out; painting over an open glazing bead channels water into the sash, which is why so many original bottom rails have gone. Those get re-glazed and the bare rabbet primed. On the rebuilds it is fiber cement and stucco, where the failures are split caulk at flanges and chalking on the south and west elevations — the bead gets cut out rather than topped up, and chalked surfaces get primed before topcoat.

Here is what the price covers.

• A meeting with our In-Home Color Consultant before anything is ordered
• Full pressure wash of the surfaces to be painted
• Caulking and sealing at joints and penetrations
• Scrape and sand where the existing coating has failed
• Carpentry repairs — soft and rotten wood replaced, not painted over
• Full coverage and protection of windows and brick, then spray application