Best Season for painting your home’s exterior

Introduction

When painting the interior of a home, it does not require much thought. Since painting inside has no correlation to the weather or season.

Going through deciding to paint your exterior is a different story. There are uncontrollable elements once you take your painting projects to the outdoors. Many times we do not realize that the success of our exterior painting project is controlled by the weather and season.

Summer

House exterior painting projects work best during the Summer. The reason for this is during this time the weather is warmer and precipitation is at a minimum.

Despite Summer being the most opportune time, other factors also should be considered.

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Instances where extreme heat can occur, should be factored into when starting an exterior painting project.

This can prematurely cure paint, which cause it to dry almost instantly as it's applied.

One way to prevent this, is to not paint when the sunlight is shining directly onto your surface.

Fall

Avoiding a variation of weather is a crucial factor in deciding what season to begin an exterior painting project. What is wanted is a consistent temperature. Paint does not dry well when temperature can get up to a high of 100 and then a low of 60.

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Figuring out a more consistent weather pattern is a reason why early fall could be also be a better time of year to paint.

Reasoning is that day and night temperatures usually are closer to each other, and not varying too much for paint to not dry well.

Winter

Painting in Winter is not ideal. There is usually a minimum temperature that is recommended for painting exteriors. Despite of the improvement of paint quality, that allows even to a minimum of 35 degrees Fahrenheit, there are other factors to consider also.

Usually Winter brings on more precipitation, in a majority of the country, snow. As a rule of thumb applying exterior paint to dry surface areas should be considered best practice.

This rules Winter out as one of the less opportune times to start an exterior painting project.

Conclusion

When it comes to the exterior of your home, the paint you choose will need to be durable.

This means choosing the shade to withstand versatile weather conditions, so that it can last years, if not decades.

When it comes to deciding on the right paint type and application for you, we recommend using professionals.

There are plenty of DIY home projects you can tackle, but a large home exterior paint job is last on that list. For any help on deciding anything regarding exterior paint, contact us, we provide on-budget work, and on-time quality.

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