Painting the exterior of your home may not seem like a fun way to spend a weekend, but there are a few very good reasons to repaint your exterior if it hasn’t been done in a while.
Increase Market Value of Your Home
The most effective investments are those in which the amount you invest is a lot less than what you get in return. Repainting your exterior walls is one such effective investment. The cost of a professional paint job is typically overshadowed by the prospective increase in market value of your home. By maintaining the exterior of your house, you are looking at potential returns of up to 7%.
Protect Your Home
A study from Harvard University recently drew attention to the importance of exterior paint in the protection and upkeep of homes. Look at it this way, an exterior coat of paint is like the protective skin on your body. It protects the house from the weather, insects, and dust. Without it, the wood on the exterior of your home could begin to fail due to over exposure to natural forces. A good coat of paint will protect these areas from damaging effects of weather and will hold up under normal wear and tear. Taking the time and effort to protect your home from nature’s forces can avoid expensive repairs.
Reveals Areas of Repair
What happens if you do not repaint the exterior part of your house in time? It does not get the protection it requires. Most homeowners are unaware of the many minute things which are wrong with exterior until they take time to repaint it. The preparation work that goes into an exterior paint job will most likely reveal the various flaws that require attention. The great thing here is that under most circumstances, a new paint job will fix the minor flaws you come across.
Improve Curb Appeal
How do you make your house that house that everybody who passed it wished they lived in it? Just give the exterior a fresh new look. It goes a long way in reflecting the owner of the house and more than often, potential buyers will give initial consideration to how the house looks from the outside rather than what it looks like on the inside. It’s therefor only fair to assume if the house looks drab from the outside and has peeling paint, the interior is not worth viewing.
Step outside and look at your house’s exterior condition. You now have 4 top reasons to convince you into giving it a fresh new coat.