Exterior paint costs in Santa Rosa
Here’s the ballpark for common exterior paint jobs around Santa Rosa, CA. Want one for your own project? A photo is all it takes.
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What it usually costs
- Repaint the whole house$1.99 – $5.46 per sq ft
- Paint just the trim and shutters$1.62 – $6.47 per sq ft
A ballpark, not a quote. Some of these are national averages adjusted for Santa Rosa prices, so your job could land outside them.
Exterior paint in Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa gets real winter rain: about 30 inches a year, with more than five in each of December, January and February. Painted wood soaks some of that up through the season, most of all at the lowest boards, sills and window trim, where water sits longest.
Summer flips the picture. July and August afternoons reach the low 80s, but the nights cool to around 50°F, so the daily swing is wide. Those dry months are when wood that soaked all winter finally gives up its water.
The homes split roughly in half by age, with 1980 as the median year built and about one in twelve going back to the 1930s or earlier. The older half has more paint history to deal with and more years of winter soaking behind it.
Before you get a ballpark on an older house, have someone press a screwdriver into the bottom boards and sills. Soft wood there means repairs come before paint, and it's better to know that up front than halfway through the job.
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