Exterior paint costs in Waterbury
Here’s the ballpark for common exterior paint jobs around Waterbury, CT. Want one for your own project? A photo is all it takes.
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What it usually costs
- Repaint the whole house$1.50 – $4.99 per sq ft
- Paint just the trim and shutters$1.50 – $5.99 per sq ft
A ballpark, not a quote. All of these are national averages adjusted for Waterbury prices, so your job could land outside them.
Exterior paint in Waterbury
Waterbury's Hillside neighborhood is exactly what the name says. Its National Register nomination describes a 116-acre residential district rising on a steep slope just north of downtown. Most of its houses went up between 1840 and 1920, and the overwhelming majority are Queen Anne. The grander houses, built for the city's captains of industry, sit on the upper streets. Foremen and skilled craftsmen lived lower down, in smaller houses closer to the street.
For a painter, that slope is the first thing to price. Ladders on a grade need leveling, the downhill side of a house is taller than the uphill side, and some walls need staging to reach safely. Queen Anne trim, with its brackets, spindles and shingled gables, is slow work on any lot. And the rest of the city isn't much younger: roughly 77 percent of Waterbury's houses date from before 1980, so old paint is the usual starting point.
The larger houses on the upper streets are the slowest of all to paint: more wall, more trim, and on the downhill side, more height.
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