Exterior paint costs in Tallahassee
Here’s the ballpark for common exterior paint jobs around Tallahassee, FL. Want one for your own project? A photo is all it takes.
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What it usually costs
- Repaint the whole house$1.58 – $4.13 per sq ft
- Paint just the trim and shutters$1.41 – $5.63 per sq ft
A ballpark, not a quote. Some of these are national averages adjusted for Tallahassee prices, so your job could land outside them.
Exterior paint in Tallahassee
Tallahassee is a renter's town. About 68,000 of the metro's 165,000 occupied homes are rented, and about 21,000 of those rentals were built before 1980. That matters for paint because of how EPA's lead rule works. If you paint your own pre-1978 house, the rule generally doesn't cover you. If you rent all or part of it to tenants, it does, even when you do the work yourself.
The weather keeps paint busy. Close to 59 inches of rainfall a year keeps siding damp, long summers bake the sunny walls, and about 27 freezing nights a year slow the winter mornings. Summer is the hardest stretch for a crew: about 22.5 inches falls in June, July and August alone, over roughly 31 wet days.
Plenty of Tallahassee's rentals are new, though. About 13,500 were built in the 2010s, more than in any other decade, and a house that young falls outside the lead rule entirely.
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