Exterior paint costs in Allentown
Here’s the ballpark for common exterior paint jobs around Allentown, PA. Want one for your own project? A photo is all it takes.
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What it usually costs
- Repaint the whole house$2.31 – $4.57 per sq ft
- Paint just the trim and shutters$1.50 – $6.00 per sq ft
A ballpark, not a quote. Some of these are national averages adjusted for Allentown prices, so your job could land outside them.
Exterior paint in Allentown
On a late-summer morning in Allentown, your siding is often wet before the sun reaches it. At the airport, average humidity sits in the mid-80s in the morning in August and September, then drops to the mid-50s by afternoon.
That swing matters to paint, which needs a dry surface to grip. Dew sits on cool siding until the sun warms it, and it comes back as the air cools in the evening. So on a Lehigh Valley job, expect the crew to start after the walls dry off and to stop before evening dew, which spreads the work over more days than you might guess from the size of the house.
The houses add work of their own. Inside the city limits, about four of every five homes predate 1980. Older wood trim, porches and window frames carry a lot of coats, and getting them sound before new paint goes on is most of the job.
If your painter shows up at nine and packs up by four in September, that's not slacking. That's the dew.
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