Exterior paint costs in Shreveport

Summer is the hard season for exterior paint in Shreveport. The city racks up close to 100 days at 90°F or hotter, and about 11 at 100°F. That kind of sun fades color and dries paint out until it cracks.

North Louisiana gets less rain than the coast, but it's still a wet place. The state climate summary puts annual rain at around 50 inches in the north, compared with about 70 at some places in the southeast, with Shreveport near the low end at about 51.

Shreveport's houses run older. Just under half the homes in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro were built before 1980, and the 1970s were the biggest building decade. Half the homes date to 1981 or earlier.

On a 1970s house that still has its original wood trim, fascia and soffits, those boards have been painted many times. The painter's time goes into scraping off what's loose, replacing soft boards and priming bare wood, all before the topcoat. That's what moves a job from a plain repaint into the heavier-prep kind.