Exterior paint costs in Reno

Reno mornings are calm, and good painters use them. Nevada's valley winds are light in the morning and pick up in the afternoon. In Reno, the state climate record notes, winds of zero to three miles per hour are most common around 8 a.m. Spraying and high ladder work go best early, before afternoon gusts start carrying overspray and dust onto wet paint.

Dry weather is easy to find, since Reno sees measurable rain or snow on only about 49 days in a year. The housing is mostly young, too: about four in ten homes are from 2000 or later. If yours is an older house in the Old Southwest or near downtown, expect more scraping and lead-safe work on any paint from before 1978.

The state climate record also describes Nevada's clean, dry air, bright sunshine and very large daily temperature swings, averaging 30 to 35 degrees between the high and the low. Wood trim that heats and cools that much every day moves at its joints, and that's where paint cracks first. Careful caulking before the color goes on pays off here.