House painters · Independence, MN · west metro & Central MinnesotaExterior window open · interior season books from November
Brushtek · House painters · Independence, MN
Exterior painting in the short Minnesota window, interior painting, cabinets and trim the rest of the year. Homeowners and custom builders across the west metro and Central Minnesota.
Exterior seasonExterior window: 6 weeks left
Exterior paint wants the wall and the air above 50°F for a couple of days. In the west metro that is roughly May through mid-October. Interior work, cabinets and trim run all year, and winter is when our calendar is fullest indoors.
Interior seasonTrusted by builders. Finish painting for four west-metro custom builders.
Nail holes, screw pops, cracked caulk at the trim, glossy old enamel that needs a bonding primer. Skipping this is how a paint job fails in year two.
Ceiling lines, trim lines, and the inside corners of an accent wall are brushed with a steady hand and checked in daylight.
Low-temperature exterior products stretch the fall window. Low-VOC interior paint cures cleanly in a closed-up January house.
Furniture returned, outlet covers on, floors clean, touch-up paint labeled and left with you.
The shop is on the Hwy 12 corridor, so the Lake Minnetonka towns, the Hwy 55 corridor and Wright County are all a short drive. Each town page says what we see in its houses and how far it is from us.
Often, yes. The rule is that the surface and the air stay above 50°F for a couple of days, and some exterior products go lower. Early October usually works. By late October we are watching the forecast day by day and will tell you honestly if it should wait for spring.
No, it is the best time to get on the calendar. Furnace air is dry, which helps paint cure, and low-VOC products mean you can live in the house while we work. We ventilate room by room and keep the heat where it belongs.
A single room is usually a day, two if there is a lot of trim or repair. A whole-house interior repaint on an average west-metro home runs about a week, working room by room.
Yes. We do finish painting for several custom builders in the west metro, on the builder's schedule. That is why so many of our photos are of brand-new rooms.
Text a few photos of the rooms or the house and tell us what you are after. We reply with a written estimate, no pressure and no invented urgency.
