LET’S GET
TO WORK.
Tell us what you’re painting. Carter will be in touch to arrange a walkthrough and put your estimate in writing.
- Free. No obligation.
- Your scope and selections stay with your request.
- Direct contact with the owner.
GOOD QUESTIONS.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS.
How much does it cost to paint a house in the Triangle?
Every home is different, so we don't publish a flat rate. Cost depends on square footage, surface condition, how much preparation and repair is needed, the number of colors, and access. We walk the property with you and give a written, itemized estimate at no charge — so you can see exactly what you're paying for before committing to anything.
How long does a typical project take?
Most interior projects run a few days; exteriors typically take longer because preparation is the bulk of the work. We'll give you a realistic schedule with your estimate and tell you if anything changes. One recent customer described starting Monday and having their entire downstairs finished by Wednesday.
What preparation do you actually do before painting?
For exteriors: pressure washing, scraping failing paint, sanding, repairs to damaged trim and siding, sealing gaps, and priming bare surfaces. For interiors: moving and covering furniture, protecting floors, patching and sanding walls and ceilings, and caulking. It's the least glamorous part of the job and the part that decides how long the finish lasts.
Do I need to move out while you paint?
No. We work room by room so your home stays livable, cover and move furniture for you, and clean up at the end of each day rather than leaving the place unusable.
Do you handle repairs, or only painting?
We handle the repairs that painting depends on — drywall and ceiling patching, wood rot and trim repair, wallpaper removal, and sealing. If a surface needs fixing before it can hold paint properly, that's part of the job, not a surprise afterwards.
Do you paint cabinets, decks and fences too?
Yes. Cabinet refinishing gets a durable, factory-smooth finish that makes a kitchen feel new without the cost of a remodel. We also clean, repair and stain decks and fences.
Will I be dealing with a salesperson or the owner?
The owner, Carter. He runs the estimate, oversees the crew, and does the final walkthrough with you. That's the part customers mention most often in our reviews.
What a free estimate actually involves
It is a visit, not a phone number read off a square-footage table. Carter comes to the property, looks at the surfaces, and tells you what he finds. On an exterior that includes probing the places wood rot starts — trim ends, column bases, window sills, anywhere a gutter has been overflowing — because those are the items that change a quote and they cannot be assessed from a photograph.
Expect it to take a while. A whole-house exterior walk is not a ten-minute job if it is being done properly, and a quote produced in ten minutes is a quote with assumptions in it.
You are not obliged to anything by booking one, and there is no follow-up campaign if you decide not to proceed.
How to read the quote you get back
Our estimates separate preparation from paint deliberately, and it is worth understanding why that formatting matters more than the total at the bottom.
When two painting quotes on the same house differ by thousands, the difference is almost never the paint — the materials are a modest fraction of any residential job. The difference is labour, and specifically preparation labour: whether failed caulk is being cut out or painted over, whether bare wood is being spot-primed, whether cabinet doors are being degreased before they are sanded, whether rotted trim is being replaced or coated.
So when you compare quotes, compare those lines rather than the totals. Ask each company what happens between the wash and the first coat. A specific answer describes a specific job. A vague one describes a number.
If ours is higher, that is the conversation to have with us, and we will show you exactly which line accounts for it.
What makes a quote change after the walkthrough
Honest answer: a few things genuinely can, and they are worth knowing in advance rather than meeting as a surprise mid-job.
Wood rot found behind intact-looking paint is the most common. Rot progresses under a sound-looking film, so some of it is only discoverable once scraping starts. We flag the risk areas at the walkthrough so it is not a shock.
Substrate surprises inside — plaster that has lost its key to the lath, a water stain whose source has not actually been fixed, wallpaper that turns out to be layered over more wallpaper. Cabinets that turn out to be thermofoil rather than wood.
What does not change is the scope you agreed. If something is found, you hear about it before work continues on it, with the cost and the options, rather than finding it added to a final invoice.
Timing, seasons and what to expect on scheduling
Interior work books relatively freely year-round and carries our winter. Nothing about weather, HOA approval or historic district review affects the inside of your house.
Exterior work is seasonal in ways specific to this region. Spring is constrained by the pine pollen wave from roughly late March to mid-April, which settles into wet paint and onto freshly washed surfaces. Summer works but has to be sequenced around the sun, because a south or west wall can run 30 to 40°F above air temperature. Autumn is the best combination of conditions here and consequently books out first.
The other scheduling variable is approval. If you are in an HOA with an architectural review committee and you are changing colour, that process can add weeks. Tell us early and we will quote and hold the scope rather than have the paperwork push an autumn exterior into December.
Deck and fence work needs two visits with drying time between them. That is not scheduling padding — staining wood that has not dried after washing is how a deck refinish fails within one season.
Before you fill in the form
The more of this you can tell us, the more useful the first conversation is: your town, what the surface is, roughly when the house was built, whether you are in an HOA and whether the colour is approved, and photographs of anything that is currently failing.
If you are still deciding what work you want, the service pages set out what each type of job involves, and the service area pages cover what we typically see in your town's housing stock. If you want to check we are real first, that is what the reviews page is for.