House Painting in Jackson Hole and Teton Valley

Two. Leave it and keep recoating a film that will go on trapping moisture, or take it off and go back to a breathable penetrating stain. Removal usually means media blasting, because chemical strippers will not reach into log checks and corners. Once the paint is off, the logs get inspected, any rot gets cut out and replaced, and the wall gets stained. It is expensive and it is permanent. Recoating paint is neither.

Paint sits on top of the wood as a continuous film. Stain penetrates into it. A log takes on and gives off moisture with the seasons, and it has to release that moisture through its outer surface. A penetrating stain lets it. A paint film does not, so the moisture stays in the log and the log rots while the surface still looks fine. On trim, siding and doors, a film is exactly what you want.

Roughly late May through mid-September, and both edges of that are weather-dependent. Most exterior coatings need the surface above fifty degrees and more than five degrees above the dew point, during application and while they cure. Jackson averages overnight lows in the low forties even in July. Early morning starts are often too cold and late-day coats can chill before they film. Exterior work books early here, and interior work fills the winter.

Less than the label says. Ultraviolet intensity climbs with altitude, and a home at six thousand feet takes on the order of a quarter more ultraviolet than the same home at sea level. South and west exposures show it first: fading, then chalking, then cracking. On a properly prepped surface, expect roughly seven to ten years on sheltered elevations and four to six on the sun side. Bad prep halves all of those numbers.

Both. Interior work means drywall, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinetry in the framed portions of a log home, plus the cut lines where painted drywall meets a log wall or an exposed timber. Interiors have no weather window, so that work runs through the winter after exterior painting has stopped for the year. If the house is seasonal, interior work is usually the easier scope to schedule around an empty building.

Many homes here are second or third properties, and the scheduling often runs through a caretaker or a property manager. We will work with whoever you designate. What matters is that the scope, the exposures being coated and the sequence are in writing before work starts, so an approval given from another state is given against the same document the crew is working from.