Exterior Painting in Whittier, CA

Whittier's exteriors aren't one material — stucco dominates the flatter streets, older wood siding shows up close to Uptown, and trim is its own job everywhere in between. We prep before we paint, and what that means changes by house: cracked or chalky stucco gets cleaned and patched before color, wood siding gets scraped back to sound wood and primed where bare, and trim gets caulked at every gap so water has nowhere to get behind the new coat. Up toward Friendly Hills, where the hillside lots put full sun on every face of a house through the day, we treat it as a full exterior repaint rather than painting the front and calling it close enough — the sides and back have taken the same beating, even when they're less visible from the street. Fascia, eaves and garage doors get the same prep as the main walls, since they're usually the first place a Whittier exterior shows peeling or fading, and a color that looks right on a sample chip gets checked against the actual house in daylight before a full coat goes on, since stucco, wood and trim all take color a little differently.