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Exterior paint costs in Lexington

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Lexington

What it usually costs

  • Repaint the whole house$1.39 – $4.65 per sq ft
  • Paint just the trim and shutters$1.39 – $5.57 per sq ft

A ballpark, not a quote. All of these are national averages adjusted for Lexington prices, so your job could land outside them.

Exterior paint in Lexington

Lexington's winters are long enough to shape when your house can be painted. The airport logs close to 90 nights at or below freezing over a year, and on about 18 days the high stays at or below 32°F.

Paint has a temperature floor. Diamond Vogel says its standard exterior latex shouldn't go on when the air or the wall is below 50°F, and it should stay at 50°F or warmer for about 8 hours after. Some products are rated down to 35°F. In Lexington, that rules out much of the winter and can push back the start time on chilly spring and fall mornings. A crew that can't start until the wall warms up gets fewer hours in a day, so a fall job can take more days than a summer one.

Close to two in five homes around Lexington were standing before 1980. Old wood siding and trim with decades of paint on them take more scraping and priming than newer fiber cement.

Offered a late-fall start date? Ask which paint the crew will use and what the overnight lows look like for the day after.

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Questions homeowners ask

How accurate is a photo estimate?
It’s a ballpark, not a quote. One photo rarely shows the whole house, so a local painter who walks the property will always be more precise. Use our number as the range to expect before you start calling around.
What changes the price of an exterior paint job?
Square footage is the biggest factor, then how much prep the old paint needs — bare wood or peeling paint takes far more work than a clean recoat. Trim, multiple stories, and a color change add to it too.
Do I need to measure my house?
A rough guess at the wall square footage helps a lot, but if you don’t know it, just skip the question and we’ll estimate from your photo.
Is this really free?
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What photo works best?
A shot of the front of the house, plus any sides showing wear like peeling or bare spots, gives us the best read.

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