In Victoria’s damp and often unpredictable weather, tackling exterior painting projects can be challenging. High humidity and rainy conditions significantly increase the risk of bubbling, peeling, and fading paint. Thankfully, advancements in painting products now offer solutions that withstand moisture better and can even be applied in colder temperatures. But as experienced exterior painting contractors, we know that timing is everything. That’s why we rarely extend our exterior painting season past the first week of October—except in urgent cases like preparing a home for resale. This cautious approach has consistently delivered outstanding results for our clients.
As a small team of trusted exterior home painters in Victoria, we book quickly, sometimes scheduling projects a year in advance. While it’s a good problem, turning away clients when we’re fully booked can be challenging. Fortunately, Victoria boasts a wealth of reputable painting companies, and we’ve proudly partnered with two exceptional teams over the past four years. If we can’t accommodate your timeline, we’ll connect you with a trusted alternative to ensure your project gets done right. Supporting local businesses is key in a city like ours, and we’re always happy to share the work to keep the community thriving.
One of Pro Palette Painting’s specialities is exterior painting. We have worked diligently for over 30 years in the trade, as well as over 10 years in business, to build our exceptional reputation by providing the kind of personal and individual service that our clients expect. We guarantee our exterior painting finishes with our 3 year workmanship warranty. From the initial contact of your estimate, right down to the final details, ensuring proper communication and an efficient, quality product. We guarantee our exterior painting finishes with our 3 year workmanship warranty, although many of our projects last 10 years and longer, dependent on proximity to water and amount of shade or sun the property sees.
How do we make your exterior home painting experience stress-free? It’s simple: We deliver outstanding results within an efficient timeline. With us, you can enjoy a smooth painting process without the usual hassle and disruption.
We begin by providing a detailed, personalized estimate outlining our exterior home painting services and the total cost. Our trained estimators ensure an accurate, upfront price, and our experienced team of exterior painting contractors works directly from this proposal to ensure your project stays on track and within budget.
Once you book your exterior house painting job, we’ll send you a checklist to help you prepare your space. We’ll also schedule a call to review the details and address any questions. Before we begin, our team will walk through your property, assess the scope of work, and ensure everything is prepped and ready for painting.
The secret to completing the job quickly is having the right team and process. With over 20 years of experience, our exterior house contractors in Victoria, BC, have perfected the painting technique and system. Our skilled painters and our streamlined approach ensure your project is completed efficiently while minimizing any disruption to your daily routine.
Your satisfaction is our priority. After the job, we’ll walk you through the completed work as the paint dries to check for any touch-ups. We’ll follow up the next day to ensure the work, colors, and materials meet your expectations.
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When painting exteriors, it’s essential to choose paints designed to resist peeling, cracking, and fading under harsh weather conditions. Oil-based paints are known for their water-repelling properties, making them a classic choice. However, modern all-acrylic paints are equally reliable, offering excellent weather resistance and durability.
The cost of painting your home’s exterior varies depending on factors like the size of the house, the type of paint used, and the level of prep work required. While pricing can differ, it’s important to remember that exterior paint is more than just cosmetic—it is a vital protective layer against UV rays, moisture, and harsh weather, preserving your home’s structure and longevity.
Gloss and high-gloss finishes are excellent choices for exterior areas that see frequent use, such as doors, door frames, and window casings. These finishes are easy to clean and resist scuffs, and they wear better than other options, ensuring a polished and durable look.
We continually try and grow both personally and in our business with the latest paint advancements, colour trends and social media interactions. With all that being said, the most important facet of the painting business is still the quality of your work and effective communication with your clients. Every detail matters. Price point, prep levels, timelines, colour and sheen choices, job site cleanliness and ongoing updates while on site are all important matters. We hope to make each client feel comfortable, as we understand that they are investing in us and in their biggest investment, the home. We appreciate our clients trust and hope to keep every client for life. Good business is based on trust, quality and reliability. It’s our hope that our clients see our intent not only with the quality of our painting, but our personal qualities as well. Give us a call and book your free estimate and see what Pro Painting can do for you! You’ll be happy you made the call and we’re happy to serve you.
Painting Victoria one house at a time and patiently waiting on the next eye popping, ear to ear smile of another happy client
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We warranty deck flooring and step treads for one year as Vancouver Islands climate is just too hard on those surfaces with all the moisture we get. In many cases decks have been painted so many times previously, with the wrong product and technique. Moisture finds its way into the wood from underneath the deck causing issues with adhesion. These areas also see the most traffic and abuse and many homeowners let them get to a difficult state of repair. We always advise clients, if they can, to paint new deck boards with a semi transparent stain such as Messmer’s UV plus, which is a one coat product that seals the wood, waterproofing it and providing a blister, bubble and peel free finish that comes in enough shades to work well with any homes colour scheme. Paints and solid colour stains can be difficult to maintain, especially with pets and children, but in some cases it is the only option as stripping down a deck is not the most cost effective. Either way we can help you find a solution that will make your home shine!
Just like with our interior painting, the process starts with a free onsite or online estimate of your exterior painting project where we discuss your vision for the final product (colours, prep levels, budget, project time lines, etc). Once we have discussed the details and procedures and have done a walk around the exterior of the property, we will email you an estimate along with the scheduled timeframe for the project as well as costing and options if required. The vast majority of our estimates come in at the original price unless a client has added on to the scope of the project, which happens frequently. We generally power wash all our exterior projects prior to painting. This ensures a clean surface to begin with and aides in our prep and paint adhesion. This power washing appointment is setup a couple weeks to a month prior to your project start date. This gives the home plenty of dry time, prior to preparation of exterior surfaces for paint. The prep stage (washing, scraping, sanding, caulking, patching, priming,. etc) is the most important part of your project. We have found, over the years, that every clients needs are different and we are happy to accommodate each clients request for how far they want to take the prep levels on their castle. Price point plays a big factor in this, as prep is labour intensive and we want to ensure that every client has a clear and concise idea of what the final product will look like in the end. Some folks require a quick clean paint job for resale, others, a full restoration on their 100 year old character home. We mask off most homes ( windows, light fixtures, bbq’s, hot tubs, lawn furniture, etc) in advance of a spray and back roll finish to the main body of the home. This process ensures that we keep paint on the home, not other areas where it shouldn’t be. In any residential painting job, a clean site is a an efficient job site! This means raking up paint chips from the garden beds, protecting shrubs around the home and keeping our tools and ladders in one general area at the end of each day. Once we get to the painting stage, the projects really start to take shape. All the details from sheen choice, to colour schemes start to come together, providing a fresh new look to your home that is the envy of all your neighbours. Once we have finished the spraying portion of the project, we will in most cases, paint the trim work ( fascia boards, window frames, doors, doorframes, decorative moldings, etc) by hand in your desired colour. We always require at least two coats on each surface, even if the client is colour matching an existing colour, to ensure that the product warranties remain in effect. Most materials require a certain mil thickness to warranty the product. On the final day of the project, we do a walk around inspection of the project, touching up all final details and ensuring that the client finds everything satisfactory. Voila! Your new castle awaits!
In Victoria, exterior painting that is done in high humidity/rainy conditions is far more likely to bubble, peel, and fade. There are new products available that can offset some of these issues with the ability to apply at cold weather temps and withstand moisture better than previous products. With that being said, we always err on the side of caution, never pushing our exterior season past the first week of October unless absolutely necessary in such instances as a client getting their house ready for resale on a deadline. That model has always worked for us and our clients, providing the best end result. Of course the drawback is, as a small company we can only handle so many projects a year and we book up fast. We often find ourselves booking spring/summer projects sometimes a year in advance. Not a bad problem to have, but it’s hard to say no to a client in need when you’re fully booked. Thankfully, there are plenty of great options in Victoria for reputable painting companies that do great work and we have had referral agreements with two companies for the past 4 years, that have done exceptional work for clients and contacts, new and repeat, when our schedule would not allow. We would rather see you get the job done right by another great company, if we don’t fit into your desired timeline. In this day and age, more than ever, we need to support each other both personally and amongst Victoria small business’s. We are happy to spread the work around, as there is more than enough to support many of us in the trade.
All our staff are covered by Worksafe BC. We are also a proud member of the Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island. We are proud to be named on top 3 rated for painting companies in Victoria six years running now. The top 3 rated firm investigates companies in each field ( painters, plumbers, lawyers, graphic design, accountants, etc) and ranks the top 3 in all major cities across Canada and the U.S. on details such as social media presence, reviews and responses to clients, experience, quality, etc.
We are very grateful to Victoria for all their ongoing support and feel privileged to serve our loyal family of customers for the past 10 years. We look forward to serving you for 10 more!
