Hyde Park, OH

Exterior Painting in Hyde Park

Wells Painting scrapes, sands, primes and paints house exteriors across Hyde Park, including large older homes with three-story dormers. The prep comes first, and on an older house it is most of the job. Peeling paint comes off, rotted boards get replaced and seams get caulked before any finish goes on. Every exterior house painting job carries a three-year warranty.

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How long will an exterior paint job last?

How long a coat lasts comes down to the house and the prep under it. Our Hyde Park exterior jobs include a brick house painted white, dormers over a copper and slate roof, and a pair of arched wood doors.

Recent exterior painting jobs in Hyde Park

Dark red-brown brick, painted white

The brick on this house was dark red-brown. We taped off the window frames, hung drop cloths along the wall and set ladders up to the upper courses, then painted the brick white. The wall in the first photo is partway done, with dark brick still showing around the window. In the second it's white with cream window trim.

The house sits under a gray slate roof with dormers and a covered back porch. The grounds were still under construction when the last photos were taken.

Brick wall painted white from the bottom up, dark red-brown brick still showing around a blue-taped window, two extension ladders and a hanging drop cloth. — Partway: dark brick still showing at the window.

White painted brick wall with cream window trim, two air conditioner condensers on brackets and a gabled roofline against a blue sky. — The same job, wall finished white.

Back of a white-painted brick house with a gray slate roof, dormers and a covered porch on wood posts, building materials and bare dirt in front, autumn trees behind. — The back of the house.

Tall side wall of a white-painted brick house with a long chimney, cream window trim and an air conditioner condenser, autumn leaves at the left. — The tall side wall and chimney.

Dormers over a copper and slate roof

The dormer windows on this house sit in a slate roof, with a copper roof below them. We covered the glass and the roof edge with paper and blue tape so the work on the dormer stayed off the slate and copper. The chimney in the second photo is painted white.

Dormer with a white peaked top and a double window, brown paper and blue tape along both sides, a slate roof behind and a copper roof below. — Dormer window and roof edge masked.

White-painted brick chimney with a copper cap above a gray slate roof, a dormer with a French window at the left, copper roof at the bottom. — Chimney painted white.

Arched wood doors, tan to deep red-brown

These are arched wood double doors in a pale brick archway. We taped the sill and covered the floor at the base of the doors. The wood started out a light tan. In the second photo it's a deep red-brown.

Arched pair of wood double doors with glass panes and black handles in a pale brick archway, blue tape along the sill, the wood a light tan. — Before: light tan wood.

The same arched wood doors with the wood a deep red-brown, standing slightly apart, blue tape and a drop cloth at the sill, trees reflected in the glass. — After: deep red-brown.

Google review

“Denny did an excellent job repairing and restoring my soffits and decorative wood under front windows. He was very professional and prompt. He has done multiple projects on my street with all neighbors satisfied. Highly recommend.”

Lisa P., Madeira, Google review

How old are the houses in Hyde Park?

Most went up before World War II. In ZIP 45208, which takes in Hyde Park, 4,663 of 9,027 homes were built in 1939 or earlier, and 5,921 before 1960. Hyde Park started in 1896 as Mornington Village with very few houses, and Cincinnati annexed it in 1903. In the Observatory district the building ran from 1873 to 1923, set off when the railroad reached Mornington in 1882.

A house that age has been painted many times over. The walk around at the estimate shows you where that old paint has let go.

Sources: US Census ACS 2024 (ZIP 45208), American Planning Association, Hyde Park Neighborhood Council, City of Cincinnati

What are Hyde Park houses built from?

Brick, stone, stucco and wood, often on one house. The City of Cincinnati names Hyde Park among the neighborhoods with a large number of Tudor Revival houses, built of brick, stone and stuccoed half-timbering under slate or tile roofs. It lists Hyde Park for early high-style Colonial Revival too, and the American Planning Association adds Italianate, Queen Anne, Eastlake and Shingle style. In the Observatory district the houses are frame, sided in wood clapboard or stucco, with slate or asphalt roofs, wood multi-pane windows and wood porches with decorative railings.

Each of those takes its own prep. Our Hyde Park work includes painted brick and a pair of arched wood doors.

Sources: City of Cincinnati, American Planning Association

Why does paint peel on an old clapboard house?

Layers and water. The National Park Service says paint built past 1/16 of an inch, which is 16 to 30 coats, can crack and peel when one more coat goes on, and that peeling down to bare wood most often means moisture behind the paint. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory says cross-grain cracking shows up on older homes painted many times, and the only fix is taking the old paint off.

So we scrape what is loose back to a sound layer, sand, replace rotted boards, caulk the seams and prime bare wood before the finish. If the old paint is too thick to take another coat, you hear it at the estimate, because it changes the job.

Sources: National Park Service, USDA Forest Products Laboratory

Can you paint brick and stucco?

Yes. The brick house in our Hyde Park work was dark red-brown before we painted it white. The National Park Service warns that paint that won't let moisture out of brick traps it behind the coating and speeds up decay, and that a water-permeable coating works best. On stucco, most damage starts with water getting in through cracks, and its guidance is a thin slurry for hairline cracks, not caulk.

You can pick the paint brand. If it's one we wouldn't put on brick or stucco, we tell you why before we start, and then it's your call.

Sources: National Park Service

Do you come out to Hyde Park?

Yes. Hyde Park is 19.0 miles and 34 minutes from New Richmond, where we're based. We walk every side of the house with you, and the estimate is free.

Sources: Road distance from New Richmond

How we run an exterior painting job, start to finish: Exterior painting