We’re a siding company that paints. That means we look at what’s under the coating before we put a new one on.
The first is moisture in the substrate. The second is the calendar.
Paint bonds to a surface as the water in it evaporates and the resin forms a continuous film. If the wood underneath is damp, the film seals that moisture in, and the first warm stretch pushes it back out. That’s what bubbling and peeling actually is. It isn’t cheap paint most of the time. It’s paint applied over a wall that wasn’t dry.
The second reason is timing. Exterior coatings need surface and air temperatures roughly between 10°C and 30°C, relative humidity below about 85%, and dry conditions for a day or two after application. In the Fraser Valley that window is reliably open from late May through September, with some years giving you early May and October.
October afternoons in Surrey regularly sit above 80% humidity, and morning dew keeps walls wet until mid-morning. A crew that says they’ll paint your house in November is telling you something about how the job will hold up.
We’d rather book you for next summer than take money for a repaint that starts peeling in the spring.
This is the part that makes us different from a painting crew, and it’s honestly the only reason we offer the service. We spend our days opening walls. So when we walk a house for a repaint, we’re reading it the way we’d read it for siding work.
If we find rot, we’ll quote the wood rot repair separately and tell you plainly whether the repaint is worth doing before it’s fixed. Sometimes it isn’t.
Prep is most of the job. Anyone who tells you otherwise is quoting on spray time.
Then we walk it with you. As with every job we do, there’s no deposit, and you don’t pay the final invoice until you’ve seen the finished work and you’re satisfied.
Two material notes worth knowing, because they come up constantly.
Fibre cement. James Hardie products are available with a factory-applied ColorPlus finish or as primed board meant to be painted on site. Factory finishes are more consistent and come with the manufacturer’s own coating warranty. Field painting gives you unlimited colour choice and is often the right answer on a repaint, since you’re recoating existing board anyway. We’ll tell you which situation you’re in
Cedar. Cedar is beautiful and it’s the highest-maintenance cladding in this climate. It contains natural extractives that will bleed through the wrong primer and stain a light topcoat within a season. Stain-blocking primer isn’t optional on cedar. If you’d rather stop repainting every few years, that’s a conversation about switching material, and we’d rather have it honestly than sell you a repaint every five years.
Most of our repaint work is on homes built between 1980 and 2005 across Cloverdale, Newton, Fleetwood, Guildford, Langley and White Rock. Wood, engineered wood, and older fibre cement, all with a lot of Fraser Valley weather behind them. Those homes were mostly built before the BC Building Code required rainscreen construction in coastal regions in 2006, which means the cladding is often fastened flat to the sheathing with no drying gap.
That’s directly relevant to a repaint, because a wall that can’t dry from behind will keep pushing moisture out through the paint film no matter how well you prep the face. We’ll be straight with you if that’s what we’re seeing. A repaint on a wall like that buys you time and looks good. It doesn’t fix the assembly.
We serve Surrey, White Rock, South Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows from our shop at 19340 65 Ave in Cloverdale. Our crews work in-house, we’re WorkSafeBC registered under clearance number C136733062, we carry $2,000,000 in general liability insurance, and we’re BBB Accredited.
The reliable exterior painting window in the Fraser Valley runs late May through September, and it fills. Call 604-603-0257 or email info@micasaexteriors.ca for a free quote and we’ll get you on the calendar for a real dry stretch.
Late May through September. That’s when Fraser Valley temperatures reliably sit between 10°C and 30°C with humidity low enough for paint to cure properly. Some years give you workable conditions in early May or October. Painting between November and March risks trapped moisture, poor adhesion and early peeling.
Our painting work is focused on siding, trim, fascia and soffit, which is what our crews work with every day. If your project is primarily stucco, call us at 604-603-0257 and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit or point you toward someone who is.
Because water is getting into that spot, and it isn’t a paint problem. A recurring peel in one vertical stripe or one corner usually means failed flashing, a split caulk joint, or rot behind the surface. We check for the cause before quoting a repaint, because painting over it just resets the clock.
No, and we won’t. Paint over soft wood fails within a season and hides a problem that’s still spreading. We’ll quote the repair separately, show you what we found, and let you decide. Sometimes the right call is to fix the rot now and paint next season.
No. We don’t take deposits on any job. You pay the final invoice after the work is done and you’ve walked it with us. We accept cash, cheque and e-transfer.
Yes. Our service area covers Surrey, White Rock, South Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Call 604-603-0257 with your address and we’ll confirm scheduling.
Factory-applied ColorPlus gives you a consistent finish with the manufacturer’s own coating warranty and is usually the better choice on new installations. Field painting makes more sense on a repaint, or when you want a colour outside the available range. We’ll walk through both on the estimate.
