A fresh coat of paint on your home’s exterior may affect its facade as much as the roof or architectural style. A painting contractor can transform its appearance within days without interrupting the quiet pleasure you enjoy. Paint does much more than enhance your home’s beauty, however. With characteristics that protect it from the Virginia Beach VA climate, paint can extend the useful life of your exterior surfaces. When the time to repaint arrives, you can recognize the signs that show it needs exterior painting.

Noticing a Faded Appearance

Even the durability of technologically advanced paints cannot withstand continuous exposure to rain, snow and the sun’s bright intensity indefinitely. Over time, the lack of gloss tends to make it look neglected. While it may escape your attention until you start looking for defects, the dullness that replaced its vitality may surprise you. Our family-owned business has served the Virginia Beach area for almost 50 years with skilled professional tradesmen. At Hughes Painting, we honor a tradition of excellence and customer satisfaction.

Getting Rid of Stubborn Residue

As paint ages and shows the effects of sun, snow and rain, it produces a chalky substance that distracts from its luster. It results from the changes in paint characteristics that normally protect exterior surfaces, and it rubs off when you touch it. Aside from obscuring the beauty of your home, it loses the ability to repel the forces of nature. Dampness that can seep into unprotected areas can almost always lead to problems. We offer outside house painting services that remove the filmy appearance and restore the vibrancy that your home deserves.

Observing the Potential for Damage

Among the troubling signs that you may see, the damage to frame or stucco exteriors may offer the greatest concern. Either type of coating shows wear and tear eventually. Your prompt detection of defects when they occur helps lessen the damage. Our services include patching stucco or replacing rotten wood to create a suitable surface for fresh paint. The integrity of a structure depends on the maintenance and upkeep that supports it, guarding against the elements and enhancing its beauty.

Dealing with the Base Causes

Exterior walls that receive more shade than the sun may show algae, mildew or moisture stains. While unsightly, the stains may mean nothing. However, if they resist your efforts to remove them, it can mean something else. Underlying moisture can cause extensive damage to your home’s structure as it continues unnoticed. As an experienced painting contractor, we can identify superficial conditions that differ from defects that need correction. Our knowledge of climate conditions in Virginia Beach VA lets us detect and correct problems at their source.

Taking Responsibility

When you want to take the best care of your property, you may look more critically at it than friends and family do. However, when the burden of responsibility rests with you, it pays to take a proactive approach to outside house painting. As a responsible homeowner, you have an innate sense of anything that does not seem quite right. When you have a sense of needing to do something, it gives you a reason to find it. For sure, nothing gets better by itself. Only directed actions can stop decay and diminishing integrity, and you get a head start when you find anything wrong and decide to fix it.

Changing Tastes

A color you liked a lot when you built your house may seem very unappealing after years of the same thing. Maybe a previous owner had painted it a shade that you found completely wrong but decided to accept it at the time. Homes need exterior painting at regular intervals of five or six years anyway, and a decision to change a color presents a perfect time to do it. At Hughes Painting, we have experts in color selection who can help you choose the one you like the most.

Noticing the Obvious

Some of the clues that you need to repaint may seem harder to detect than others. However, some cannot escape notice even when you do not conduct an inspection. The caulking around your windows can react to age by cracking and pulling away from the wall. Peeling paint creates the same concerns. If enough time has passed for surfaces to show wear and tear, you may use it as an indication that you need to repaint. Building materials continue to advance in efficiency and effectiveness, making quality paints and caulks a sure way to protect your home

Observing the Seldom Seen

In your daily routine, you may follow the same way to enter your home. In some cases, homeowners enter from the garage and never use the front door. The back door may put you closer to the kitchen when you bring in the groceries, making the front door a second choice. Without ever seeing your home from the street or the way others do, you may miss important issues. Some of them may not matter, but the need for repainting deserves your attention. If you look around, you may find things that you did not know existed.

Choosing Hughes Painting

Our exterior painting service starts with offering you a free estimate and consultation on color choices. Our staff of color experts can suggest options that may reveal the beauty of your home and enhance its appearance. We exercise the greatest respect for your property and daily routines. Your schedule dictates when we do the work. Our reputation for excellence and customer satisfaction assures you of the quality job that you deserve. We prepare the exterior with utmost care to make any surface suitable for painting. Our teams can make minor repairs to defects to ensure a perfect application of your choice of colors. We complete each job with detailed prep work, protection of architectural features, courtesy and professional expertise. Call for a quote on how we can beautify your lovely Virginia Beach home.