Exterior paint costs in Phoenix

A Phoenix repaint is usually a stucco repaint. More than half of the new single-family homes finished across the West in 2024 had stucco walls, by the Census Bureau's count, and fiber cement was next. So most jobs here are about coating masonry, with wood fascia and trim as the smaller add-on.

Old lead paint is a smaller worry here than in older cities, simply because the houses are newer: more than four in ten went up in 2000 or later, and only about a quarter before 1980. A 1960s or 1970s ranch can still hide lead under its trim paint, though, and federal rules make any crew you hire contain and clean up that dust.

The calendar is the tricky part. In a normal year the first 100-degree day comes around May 2 and the last around October 5, and 111 days in all top 100. Benjamin Moore plans exterior painting for air between 35 and 100 degrees, and warns that a wall sitting in direct sun runs hotter than the air around it. In midsummer that can leave a crew a few morning hours per wall, chasing shade from the east side to the west. Spring and fall give painters full days.