A fresh coat of paint doesn't just improve your home's appearance, it protects it. At Lamar Homes Roofing & Construction, we offer professional interior and exterior painting services.
Whether you're updating an aging exterior, modernizing an interior room, or getting ready to sell, a professional paint job adds instant value and curb appeal.
Why repaint
Why repaint your home’s exterior?
Over time, your exterior paint fades, cracks, and loses its original vibrancy due to sun exposure, rain, wind, and humidity.
Preserves architectural beauty
Keeps the character and detail of your home looking the way it was designed to look.
Increases the lifespan of your siding
Paint is a barrier. A good one keeps moisture out of the material underneath.
Helps prevent insect infestations
Sealed, sound surfaces give pests far fewer ways in.
Protects your home from the elements
We use only premium, weather-resistant paints built to last.
Instantly boosts curb appeal
The fastest visible upgrade you can make to the front of your home.
The prep
Five steps that decide whether the paint lasts
The paint is the easy part and the cheap part. What happens before it decides how long you get.
Wash the surface
Dirt, pollen and chalked old paint stop a new coat from bonding. In the Triangle that means a proper wash rather than a rinse, and letting it dry fully before anything else happens.
Scrape back everything loose
Paint sticks to sound paint or to bare material. It does not stick to a layer that is already letting go, which is why a peeling wall painted over peels again in the same places within a year.
Treat the mildew, do not paint over it
Our humidity grows mildew on shaded elevations, and it grows back through fresh paint. It gets killed and washed off before a brush comes out.
Prime the bare wood
Anywhere scraping has taken you back to timber needs primer before topcoat. Bare wood drinks the first coat and leaves nothing on the surface to protect it.
Caulk the joints last
Trim joints, window and door surrounds, anywhere two materials meet. This is where water gets into the wall, and it is the step most often skipped because nobody inspects it afterwards.
What we paint
Outside first, because outside is what fails
Exterior work is what the weather is attacking, so it leads. Interior work fills the gaps around it.
Siding
Wood, fiber cement, hardboard. The wall that faces the afternoon sun is almost always the one that goes first, which is why we quote by elevation instead of pretending the whole house wears evenly.
Trim, soffit and fascia
The roof edge, and the part most likely to be soft before it is repainted. Our soffit and fascia page covers the repair side, because paint over rotten trim is money spent twice.
Doors and shutters
The front door is the one surface every visitor looks at from three feet away, so it gets the attention that distance normally hides. Shutters come off and get done properly rather than cut in around.
Porch ceilings and railings
Shaded, damp, and where mildew starts in our humidity. Railings take the most hand contact of anything outside the house and wear accordingly.
Interior walls and ceilings
Not weather dependent, so it is what we schedule around exterior work. Cutting in and protecting the room is most of the job; rolling the wall is the quick part.
When paint is not the answer
Failing siding, soft trim, or a wall that is wet from a roof or gutter problem. Those get fixed before they are worth painting, and we would rather say so at the quote than after.
Timing
Pollen, humidity and the Raleigh painting season
The window that matters here runs from late spring through fall. North Carolina's pollen monitoring season starts in late February, and Raleigh sits seventh in the country for pollen. A wall painted through the peak of that can pick up a fine yellow film before the coat has set.
Humidity is the other constraint. Paint needs the surface dry and the air willing to let it cure, which is why a humid August afternoon and a cool evening are both worse than they look. We work the elevations around the sun rather than painting whatever is in front of us.
None of that means a narrow season. It means the schedule is planned around the weather instead of fought with, which is the difference between a finish that holds and one that fails on the south wall first.
Questions
Painting questions
How often does exterior paint need redoing in the Triangle?
It depends far more on prep and exposure than on the paint. South and west walls give out first because they take the most sun, and it is common for one elevation to need attention while the rest is fine. We quote by elevation rather than assuming the whole house.
When is the best time of year to paint outside here?
Late spring through fall, avoiding the worst of the pollen. North Carolina's pollen monitoring season starts in late February and Raleigh ranks seventh in the country for pollen, so a house painted at the peak of it can pick up a dusty film in the finish before the coat has set.
What actually makes a paint job last?
Preparation, not the tin. Washing, scraping back anything loose, priming bare wood, treating mildew and caulking the joints are what decide whether you get years or seasons. A premium paint over a poorly prepared surface fails just as fast as a cheap one.
Do you paint interiors as well?
Yes. Walls, ceilings, trim and doors. Interior work is less weather dependent, so it is often what we schedule around the outside jobs.
Can you paint siding and trim while you do the roof?
Often, and it is usually the sensible order. Access is already set up, and getting the roof edge, fascia and trim handled together avoids paying twice for the same ladders. Our soffit and fascia page covers the repair side of that work.
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Free on-site inspection
Book a free painting estimate
We get on the roof, photograph what is actually there, and hand you a written report with a price. No charge, and no obligation to book the work with us. If the roof has years left in it, that is what the report will say.
