Exterior Painting

Boost Business with Exterior Commercial Painting Services

Whether you like it or not, your storefront speaks volumes to potential customers and clients. MasterWorks Painters of the greater Fairfax, VA area encourages small business owners to get out from behind the desk or store counter and go outside your store or business. Take a good, long look at what your business’s facade says about your business or what you’re selling. Could some new shrubs, commercial painting, or new signage be in order?

Up Your Curb Appeal with a Little Exterior Paint

Summer seems to be when everyone in Virginia and across the US is either buying or selling a house. As a potential home seller, you can get the market advantage by increasing your home’s curb appeal. If no one likes your house from the street, it’s unlikely the buyer will want to check it out inside. One of the best ways to enhance the look of your home is with a little exterior residential paint.

Inspiring Painting Apps

If the budding flowers and warm weather in Fairfax, VA, are motivating you to freshen up the home décor, take on the challenge. Spring is the perfect time to embrace color and try something new. Better yet, MasterWorks Painting & Remodeling has found some new apps to inspire your painting creativity.

Painting Your Home’s Exterior

The thought of choosing paint colors for your home’s exterior can seem somewhat paralyzing. You certainly don’t want to choose a color that will make your house an eyesore and you a laughingstock. So how do you go about choosing your home’s perfect color? We’ve provided a few suggestions for your next home improvement project.

How long should a paint job last?

For Exteriors homes this is a very relative question. The largest variables are sun and rain. Other big factors are prep work from the initial job, and was the proper amount of paint applied? Most of the time painters skimp on the application not getting enough product on the surface. I see allot of “painters” stretching and pulling the paint across the surface instead of applying it to the surface and leaving it to dry, instead they over work the … Continued

Why does wood rot?

I seem to get this question more and more. Wood rot begins with air pockets in wood that get moisture in them. Air pockets in wood very in size and abundance from various wood types. For example Pine is some of the softest wood available. Also “New Growth” or “Rapid Growth” wood can be very porous. As opposed to hardwoods, synthetic or treated lumber. So whenever the moisture gets in wood from hydrostatic pressure or simply is exposed to weather. … Continued

How Do You Repair and Prevent Wood Rot?

Whenever wood has more than 20% moisture exposure it has the potential to deteriorate. It’s very important to keep up on caulking and painting with quality materials to prevent wood rot. If  you are at the point where you already have wood rot we recommend you do not use pine for rot replacement. Pine available on the market today tends to be new growth pine. Pine available today is not as dense as older growth pine and will rot in a very short … Continued