Exterior paint costs in Beaumont

Southeast Texas is the wettest corner of the state. Texas's state climate summary puts normal rainfall in the far southeast above 60 inches a year, and the regional airport near Port Arthur records about 62. That's the first thing to know about paint in Beaumont: it spends a lot of its life wet.

Paint can handle rain on its surface. What it can't handle is water getting into the wood behind it. When a wall never fully dries between storms, the paint loses its grip from behind and starts to bubble. A painter who only scrapes the bubbles and recoats will be back. The fix is to find where water is getting into the wall, from a gutter, a gap at a window or a board touching the ground, and close it first.

The housing here leans older. Close to half the homes in the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro predate 1980. Houses that age tend to have wood trim and siding under layer after layer of paint, which means more scraping before the new coat goes on.

If your house took on water in a flood, the walls and framing have to dry out completely before anyone paints. Paint over damp wood or wet sheathing traps the moisture, and the new coat will soon bubble and peel.