Cost of a House Exterior Painting at 2024

In 2024, based on French Painting Company experience in Hampton roads average cost of exterior painting for the last 10 years is around $3850.

Homeadvisor estimated range: $1,811 – $4,436
Angi estimated range: $1,811 – $4,436
Lawnstarter estimated range: $2.191 – $4,505

A professional Exterior Painting job usually cost between $1.50 and $4 per square foot, but the final cost depends on several other factors, including: Size of Your Home

Main factors for exterior painting:

How high is the building.
How easy the building is to access
How much prep the surface needs
How much brush and rolling it needs
Quality of the paint
Quality of the labor
Class of contractor and reliability of the contractor

High rise buildings

Building over two stories are harder to paint, so the cost of painting is going higher.

Accessibility

If the building has hard places to reach, that makes it harder to access, so the cost of painting
will increase.

Prep before painting

before painting If the building has a lot of loose, ton of sanding and paint to scrape and a lot of holes to fill up and a lot of cracks to caulk, it makes the job more expensive

Brush and roll

The best and fastest way of painting is spraying, in any case that is not possible To Spray cost of
brush, and roll will be higher than spraying.

Cost of labor

Cost of labor depends on quality of the painters. the cost of labor for exterior painting is usually 75% of the project. At 2024 the cost of labor is between $20 to $37 per hour.

Quality of the paint

We always recommend to use the latest technology of exterior paint on any exterior paint job
because of the cost ratio of labor and material. It’s well worth it to use the best kind of material.

Exterior Paint sheen

We recommend satin finish for most exterior jobs. Satin is not too shiny and it dose not reflect
too much light and gets clean With each rain.
French Painting recommendation for exterior painting:
Always pressure wash before any exterior painting.
To use the best quality of exterior paint
Safety, Safety, Safety
Paint the gutters to cover the old stains
Warranty Exterior job at least two years