Exterior House Painting Tips

Right before Christmas last year we received the notification we were dreading. It was time to paint the house. I knew it was coming, and I knew it needed to be done. The cracks were really starting to show, and they seemed to be multiplying every day.
We even started noticing small chunks of stucco were beginning to fall off in some places. The summer storms had really taken a beating on the paint and you could see where the run off from the roof was streaked all over our walls.
Before!
Three years later with landscaping and new paint.
Christine at First Home Love Life
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  • Jeanette S Jeanette S on Jul 17, 2014
    I really dread even thinking about painting my house. New EPA regulations apply to houses built before 1978 and it is costing a fortunate. Here in our city, some of our friends are finding that $4,000 paint jobs are running as much as $14,000! Why? There is so much testing to be done for led based paint, even if you know your house does not have any. We bought this house new and it had a stain on it...nothing containing lead. We have always used a laytex paint over the years! But that does not matter...the testing has to be done and we may move rather than paint!
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