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Nashville Painting Index
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High Ceilings and Two-Story Foyers in Nashville: What Changes the Paint Plan?
A two-story foyer contains no more wall than two ordinary rooms. It takes considerably longer and carries risks that a bedroom does not, and none of…
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From Dark Walls to Light in a Nashville Home: When Primer Matters
The room is a deep color and you want it pale. The estimates run from four coats down to two, and the can apparently does it…
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Painting a Pre-1978 Nashville Home: When EPA Lead-Safe Rules May Apply
The trigger is not the age of your house by itself. Plenty of people believe that an old house automatically means a federal rule applies to…
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When Historic Zoning Review Can Apply to Exterior Painting in Nashville
Whether you can paint the outside of your house the way you want depends, for some Nashville properties, on more than your own preference. Metro operates…
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Selling a Nashville Home? Which Surfaces Should You Repaint First?
Selling puts a date on the work and a limit on how much of it you will take on, and it puts a whole house of…
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Wallpaper Before a Nashville Repaint: Remove It or Paint Over It?
You want painted walls. There is wallpaper. Both major manufacturers caution against painting over it: Benjamin Moore recommends removal, and Sherwin-Williams's painting FAQ says it typically…
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Why Interior Paint Touch-Ups Look Patchy in Nashville Homes
The can was in the garage with the room written on the lid. The paint went over the mark, and now there is a patch on…
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Peeling Paint or Wood Rot? What Nashville Homeowners Should Check
There is a question that has to be answered before anyone quotes a repaint, and it is not what color or how much. It is whether…
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Repainting Walls in a Nashville Home: Should You Add Ceilings, Trim, and Doors?
The walls are happening. That is decided. What is not decided is whether the trim goes with them, and that depends on what will be sitting…
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Mildew on Nashville Siding: Clean, Treat, or Repaint?
Dark patches have appeared on the siding, usually low on the wall or on an elevation that gets little sun. They were not there last year,…
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Nashville Exterior Paint Touch-Ups vs. Full Repaints: Reading the Damage Pattern
The failures are in four or five places and the rest of the house looks fine, which makes the obvious thought a reasonable one: this is…
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Chalky Exterior Paint on Nashville Homes: What It Means Before Repainting
Run your hand down the siding on the sunny side of the house. If it comes back with a fine powder on it, pale and dry,…
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Why Sun-Exposed Sides of Nashville Homes Can Fade Faster
Stand at the corner of the house where two elevations meet and look along both of them. If one side reads lighter, flatter or slightly different…
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Nashville House Painting Services: An Interior & Exterior Project Guide
A painting project sounds like one thing and it is two. Interior and exterior work share a name, a material and almost nothing else. They run…
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Can You Paint Vinyl Siding a Darker Color on a Nashville Home?
The question is almost never whether vinyl can be painted. It can. The question is whether it can be painted the color you want, and specifically…
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How Nashville Humidity Affects Exterior Paint Drying and Cure
This question arrives from two different people and gets answered as though it came from one. The first is asked by someone watching a crew work…
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Dirty Walls or Worn Paint? When a Nashville Interior Really Needs Repainting
The verdict tends to get reached from the doorway. You stand there, take in the marks around the light switch, the gray shadow along the hallway…
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Is Pressure Washing Necessary Before Exterior Painting in Nashville?
Short answer, in two parts. The wall gets cleaned, because a coating applied over dirt, chalk or biological growth is bonding to that layer rather than…
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Nashville Interior Repaints: Which Nail Pops, Cracks, and Patches Need Repair?
Paint does not hide wall defects. It lights them. A fresh coat is uniform in color and sheen, which means every interruption in the surface underneath…
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Painting After Rain in Nashville: How Dry Should Exterior Siding Be?
It rained yesterday. The siding looks dry, feels dry, and the forecast is clear for three days. The crew is booked, or the weekend is here.…
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Moving Into a Nashville Home? Paint Before or After the Move?
The conventional answer is paint before you move in, and it is half right. It is right about the work and wrong about the decision, and…
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Before a Nashville Exterior Repaint, Should Old Caulk Be Replaced?
Look at the joints on your house before anyone quotes the paint. They are where trim meets siding, around every window and door casing, at the…
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Why Does Exterior Paint Peel on Only One Side of a Nashville House?
Three walls are fine. One is peeling. That asymmetry is not bad luck, and it is not a coincidence that has to be explained away before…
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Why Stains Bleed Through Interior Paint in Nashville Homes: Water, Tannin, or Rust?
You painted over the mark. Two weeks later it is back, in the same shape, slightly fainter. So you painted it again, and it came back…
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Interior Paint Sheen for Nashville Homes: Matte, Eggshell, Satin, or Semi-Gloss?
The card in your hand has four words on it in a row and gives you no way to choose between them. Eggshell for walls and…