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Paint holds where the prep was done. Nowhere else.
Interior and exterior painting around Conway and central Arkansas. The advantage of hiring the people who wash exteriors for a living is that the surface underneath gets treated as part of the job rather than as a step to hurry through.
Painting is quoted on the property. Surface, height and prep move it too much for a published range to mean anything.
Worth checking first
A wash and a repaint are not the same problem.
Plenty of houses that look overdue for paint are not. They are covered in growth.
Algae and mildew dull a colour and flatten it, and a wall with a decade of that on it reads as tired paintwork from the kerb. Take the growth off and a good deal of the colour comes back, because the coating underneath was never the thing that failed.
The two jobs sit a long way apart on cost. Painting contractors around central Arkansas quote roughly $6,000 to $15,000 and up for a two-storey exterior with prep, primer and two coats. A house wash runs $330 to $700. That is not an argument against painting — when a coating has genuinely failed, washing will not save it. It is an argument for finding out which one you are looking at before committing to the larger number.
Since 501 does both, there is no incentive to talk you into the wrong one.
What gets painted
Inside and out.
Exterior siding and trim
Washed first, then prepped, then coated. The washing stage is not optional on an exterior.
Interior rooms
Walls, ceilings and trim, with the covering and cutting-in done properly rather than quickly.
Commercial
Shopfronts, units and rentals, scheduled around whatever the business needs to keep running.
Fences and outbuildings
Where the job is coating rather than staining bare wood. Bare timber goes to deck staining.
Straight answers
Questions about painting.
Do you paint inside as well as outside?
Both. Interior and exterior work, residential and commercial.
Does the outside get washed first?
Yes. Paint over algae and chalking fails early, and 501 already owns the washing side of that. It is the same trailer either way.
Is washing an alternative to repainting?
Very often, yes. A lot of houses that look like they need repainting only need the growth taken off. Painting contractors around central Arkansas quote roughly $6,000 to $15,000 and up for a two-storey exterior with prep, primer and two coats. A house wash runs $330 to $700. It is worth finding out which one you actually need before committing to the larger of the two.
How is a painting job quoted?
On the property, not from a table. Surface, height, prep and coverage all move it too much for a published range to be honest.
Related work
What people compare it against.
House Washing
The cheaper answer when the coating is sound and the wall is just dirty. $330 to $700.
House Washing →Deck Staining
For bare timber, where stain is the right finish rather than paint. $600 to $3,500.
Deck Staining →Soft Washing
The method used on siding before any coating goes near it.
Soft Washing →Where we wash
Towns this runs in.
Painting runs out of Conway, Fairfield Bay and Heber Springs across Faulkner, Van Buren and Cleburne counties.
Start here
Send a photo of the wall.
It is usually possible to tell from a picture whether you are looking at a wash or a repaint. Worth knowing before you spend.
Or look through the photographs of finished jobs first.