Exterior paint costs in Fayetteville

Fayetteville's housing straddles 1978. More than half the homes across the metro were built between 1960 and 1999, and fewer than one in ten before 1960. That span runs right through the year the federal government banned lead-based paint for homes. So the year your house was built tells you a lot about how a painter has to work. Scraping a house built before 1978 falls under lead-safe rules. Scraping a 1985 house doesn't.

If your house is on the older side, there's a step you'll see before any work starts. No more than 60 days before the job, the painting firm has to give you EPA's lead hazard pamphlet and get your written acknowledgment that you received it, or mail it at least seven days ahead and keep proof. If nobody hands you one for a pre-1978 house, that tells you something about the crew.

Summer is the hard season here. In an average year, Fayetteville's airport hits 90°F about 70 times and 100°F about three. Check the can before a July job: some exterior paints list a top temperature as well as a bottom one, and a west wall in afternoon sun can pass it.