Exterior House Painting

What Your Exterior Is Actually Up Against

Walk to the south or west side of almost any Las Vegas house that's ten-plus years past its last paint job and you'll find the same evidence: color that's faded a full shade lighter than the sheltered walls, a chalky powder that comes off on your hand, hairline cracks tracing the foam pop-outs and window returns, and dust-brown staining streaked below the roofline from monsoon runoff. None of that is a defect in your house — it's just what 110-degree summers, hard UV, and 40-degree daily temperature swings do to any coating, eventually. The job of an exterior repaint is to reset that clock properly.

How We Run an Exterior Job

• Pressure wash first. Paint over desert dust and chalk and it bonds to the dust, not the wall. Every exterior starts with a full wash and time to dry.
• Crack and stucco repair. Hairline cracks get sealed, larger stucco damage gets patched, and failed caulk lines at windows, penetrations, and fascia get cut out and redone before any color goes on.
• Masking that respects your property. Windows, fixtures, concrete, pool decks, and landscaping covered — overspray on a neighbor's car is not a story we ever want to be in.
• Spray and back-roll on the body. Spraying alone lays paint on the surface; back-rolling works it into the stucco texture. It's slower and it's the difference between a coating and a film.
• The details by hand. Fascia, pop-outs, banding, garage doors, entry doors, and iron gates get brushed and rolled — sharp lines where the scheme changes color.
• Fade-resistant, desert-rated paint. Two full coats of Sherwin-Williams on color changes, in exterior formulations built for UV — because a bargain dark accent in this valley chalks out in a couple of summers.

Scheduling Around the Heat

Paint has a temperature range, and a west-facing stucco wall at 3pm in July is far outside it — coatings applied that hot flash-dry, bond poorly, and fail years early. So summer exteriors start at first light and follow the shade around the house: west walls in the morning, east walls in the afternoon. It's a little slower. It's also why the job holds up.

HOA Colors, Handled

A lot of the valley's neighborhoods — Summerlin's villages, Southern Highlands, Mountains Edge, Skye Canyon among them — require approval before an exterior color change. We'll help you work within your community's approved schemes and get the paperwork right, so the color you want is the color that gets approved. And if the inside is due at the same time, interior painting folds into the same project cleanly.