We paint house exteriors (siding, trim boards, fascia, garage doors) on homes from 1978 onward, serving Cedar Mill, Beaverton, Bethany and nearby. On November 2026 market data for the Portland metro, a typical whole-house repaint lands at $2,498-$5,167, paint included . Booking starts with a text to : photos of each side and the build year.
Fresh paint can't hold on wood that has gone soft, so spongy boards come out before any brush work. Pricing for that part lives on a separate page: rotten wood and siding fixes. I'm Slava; I bring 7 years of my own hands-on painting and repair experience.
Which parts of the outside will you paint?
Four kinds of work. Whole repaints, siding plus trim. Fascia, window sills and trim boards by themselves. Garage doors. And blending paint over a few new siding boards after a repair, so the patch stops looking raw.
On west-side houses I expect wood lap, T1-11 panels, hardboard and fiber-cement . Rooms indoors are a different job, see interior painting. Roofs and gutters we leave alone, and staining decks and fences is its own service.
Can you paint a house built before 1978?
Then we can't scrape or sand it. Oregon's contractor board presumes lead is present in a pre-1978 home until a test clears it. Outdoors, scraping or sanding over 20 square feet of the old coating turns the job into a renovation in the legal sense, and siding work and painting are both spelled out.
Plenty of Cedar Hills homes are mid-century, roughly 1950 to 1969; Cedar Mill skews a decade later, and older Beaverton streets sit in that same window. Bethany's subdivisions are largely 1990s and 2000s construction. If you don't know the build year, it's on your purchase paperwork and in Washington County's property data.
Owners of older homes still have two routes. The federal rule excludes surfaces a certified inspector or assessor has tested and cleared as lead-free, so such a report could change our answer . Other work we decline is spelled out on our refused-work page.
How much is an exterior repaint around Portland?
Until Slava prices his own jobs, these come from market data and hour-based estimates.
| Work | Price range | Typical figure | Priced per | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full repaint (siding, trim) | $2,498-$5,167 | $3,801 | per house | with materials |
| Trim, fascia, sills | $400-$2,000 | $900 | per job | labour only |
| One garage door | $250-$700 | $400 | per door | with materials |
A frequent question: what does a 1,500- or 2,000-square-foot home run? The full-repaint row is a per-house figure, not a per-foot rate, and a two-storey home usually lands nearer the top of it . Beyond size, the price follows ladder reach, siding material, how much paint has let go, how many caulk joints have split, the colour count, and how much masking goes around glass and garden beds. Rot repair is billed apart.
If a small trim job grows past that amount partway, the paperwork reaches you no later than five days after. See what an Oregon contractor contract must say.
Which prep steps make exterior paint last?
Here's the sequence on paper:
- Clean the walls using water and mild soap.
- Give the siding time to dry.
- Scrape off flaking paint, then sand the edges smooth.
- Replace boards that are soft or puffed up.
- Re-run caulk where joints have opened.
- Prime any bare wood.
- Brush or roll two topcoats.
No chemical moss treatment and no zinc strips here; a green wall just gets washed. We lay drop cloths over shrubs and ask you to pull back branches touching the walls, since plant trimming isn't something we do. How long the paint holds comes down to sun and shade .
When is it dry enough to paint outside here?
You need three things together: siding that's dry right through, enough rain-free days ahead for the coat to cure, and air temperature within what the label on the can allows. Moisture trapped under new paint pushes it off as bubbles.
North sides and walls shaded by tall Douglas firs hold damp longer and pick up mildew. Once washed, they need extra days to dry compared with sunny walls. Summer slots go first, so booking ahead helps .
Do you do small jobs, such as one wall or just the trim?
Gladly; small jobs are a handyman's home ground. Most painting outfits quote the whole house. Someone listing a home for sale, or with one faded south wall and three good ones, needs far less than that .
On T1-11 and hardboard, the lower edge drinks in rainwater and puffs up. No coat of paint flattens that, so we saw out the swollen section and fit new material before painting. New paint next to sun-faded paint seldom matches, so a partial job ends at an outside corner or a trim board . Small jobs follow the same 1978 rule.
Can you repaint my garage door?
Yes, paint only. A steel door and a wooden one get prepped differently . Springs, openers and bent panels are garage door repair, which we refuse; our refused-work list names the right trade.
Pairing the door with trim work on one visit saves setting up twice .
Is a permit required to repaint a house exterior?
Not a building permit. Oregon's codes office, the Building Codes Division, lists painting and similar finish work among jobs exempt from permits. Siding repair or replacement is on that list too, unless the siding has to be fire resistant.
Where an HOA governs your street, check its approved colours first. Some ask for a form before any work starts.