Exterior paint costs in Buffalo

Six in ten Buffalo houses were already standing in 1940, and nine in ten predate 1980. That's a lot of wood siding with decades of paint on it, and homes that old are exactly the ones the federal lead rule was written for. A painter you pay to disturb paint on a house built before 1978 needs EPA certification and has to work lead-safe, which turns scraping into slow, careful work.

The weather decides when that work can happen. Buffalo winters are gray: NOAA counts about one clear day in an average January and one in December, and only 54 clear days across a whole year.

Paint has its own limits. Benjamin Moore, for one, recommends painting outside between 35°F and 100°F and says to check the label, because some products want warmer air. Here, the normal daytime high climbs past 50°F only in April and slips back under it in November.

That leaves late spring through early fall for a full repaint. If your siding is peeling now, book a summer slot rather than racing the first snow in November.