How Much To Paint Exterior Per Square Foot Atlanta

How much to paint exterior per square foot Atlanta homeowners can plan around generally falls between $1.50 and $4.25, and there's good reason that spread is so wide. Several things push your price up or down — the height of your home, how much prep your siding needs, and the grade of paint you choose all factor in. Knowing how each one works lets you read competing quotes with a clear eye. Treat these as planning figures only — your exact price comes from a free in-home written quote, and the figure we put on your proposal is precisely what you'll be charged.

Your home's height carries the most weight. Coating a one-story ranch runs lower than a colonial standing three floors tall, simply because taller homes need staging, added safety gear, and more time. Prep is the next factor: where your siding is peeling, carries wood rot, or shows failed caulk, the crew first has to scrape it back, patch it, and prime it before any finish coat goes on, while a well-kept home needs far less and holds the figure down. Paint grade is the third lever — premium Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore products run more per gallon than builder-grade goods, but they hold up far better against Georgia humidity and UV, which is why OVO uses them exclusively.

Two homes of identical square footage can come in at wildly different numbers. The first might have 40 windows to mask while the second has a dozen. The first might call for a full round of scraping plus priming, whereas the second needs only a wash followed by two coats. A per-square-foot figure gives you a ballpark, but it can't tell you what's actually folded into the work — which is exactly why OVO Painting prices every job as a fixed total rather than a rate on paper.

When you hire OVO Painting, the estimator comes out to the property, measures every surface, looks over the condition of the trim and siding, and builds a written quote covering everything: a pressure wash, prep, primer, two premium finish coats, a clean-up at each day's end, and a 5-to-10-year written warranty. Your project is handled by our own in-house crew rather than rotating subs, with a project manager on site each day. Your number reflects the real details of your home — body square footage, soffit and fascia footage, window and door counts, and the prep involved. Nothing gets bolted on mid-job and nothing catches you off guard, and founder Sebastian Thomas leads your estimate personally.

The dependable way to know your real number is to let us see the home in person. We'll walk every surface, account for the prep, and hand you a fixed written quote the same day — backed by our 5.0 rating across 160+ reviews.