What’s actually in a paint quote
A whole-house interior repaint in a Baltimore rowhome runs $3,500 to $8,000 depending on square footage, ceiling height, and how much trim and door work is in scope. Exterior on a rowhome is usually $6,000 to $12,000. Bigger county homes and full exteriors with prep can push $15,000 to $18,000.
If somebody quotes you a dollar a square foot, you’re getting one coat over whatever’s on the wall and no real prep. That’s not what we do.
A real interior job is: patch the drywall, caulk the trim gaps, prime the patches, two coats of finish, and protect the floor and furniture while we work. A real exterior job is: pressure wash, scrape, prime bare spots, caulk, two coats. Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams. We don’t run builder-grade paint on retail jobs.
Exterior timing in Maryland
You can’t paint an exterior in January here, and you shouldn’t paint one in July either. The right windows are spring, late March through early June, and fall, September through mid-October. Outside that you’re fighting humidity or temperature and the paint doesn’t cure right.
If you call in November asking for an exterior repaint, we’ll book it for spring and we’ll tell you why.
Cabinet painting
We spray cabinet doors off-site in a controlled space, not in your kitchen with a brush. Sand, prime, two finish coats, sprayed. It looks like a factory finish because it kind of is one.
What we won’t do
We won’t paint over peeling paint without scraping it. We won’t paint exterior trim that’s rotted, that’s a carpentry job first. We won’t quote a price without walking the rooms.