Brick Exterior Painting

Perhaps your dream home doesn’t include a dark, rough brick exterior. Your home’s brick exterior painting can make a bland exterior look fresh and inviting with any color of your choice.

Painting brick is an easy yet effective way to upgrade curb appeal and increase your home’s value. With a classic shade such as slate grey or a crisp bright white, this new exterior paint will boost curb appeal and increase the property’s overall value.

Praised for its superiority as an insulator and durable building material, brick is a common facade for many homes. In a sea of brick exteriors, the modern design of a freshly painted brick exterior creates a visual impact to stand out from the rest.

If color choice is the factor holding you back from painting your brick exterior, don’t be afraid to experiment! Paint color can easily be changed with a brick exterior, so you always have the ability to change colors to suit your current design style.

So long as your brick exterior is kept clean and updated periodically with new paint, the paint will act as a sealant to protect your brick from rain, snow, and other weather conditions.

While painted brick requires more frequent maintenance to keep fresh, it’s also easier to clean than natural brick. When left unpainted, the porous quality of brick exteriors traps dirt, debris, and moisture and can be difficult to properly clean. Painted brick provides a smooth surface, easy to clean surface that can be hand scrubbed or power washed.

Removing paint from wooden exteriors is an attainable, though difficult, undertaking. The same cannot be said for brick exteriors. After you choose to paint brick you cannot restore it to the original red hue. The process of even attempting to remove paint from brick can be costly, damaging, and often unsuccessful. Once the brick is painted it will remain so permanently, so approach the project with the confidence that you won’t regret the decision later on. You can, however, continue to change the paint color if desired.

To keep your exterior looking fresh you’ll need to clean the painted brick more often, periodically scraping and repainting it every three to five years. This is an easier process than the cleaning of natural brick, though, as you can opt for the option of a professional power washing to clean your bricks to a sparkling finish.

Structurally insecure brick is often a poor candidate for painting. If you are considering painting your exterior because the brick is aged or damaged, your painting professional may advise you to reconsider. This type of brick can make for a higher possibility of paint damage later on. Be sure to schedule a consultation with a skilled painting service to ensure that your exterior brick can sustain quality paint.

Be aware of the weather conditions in your area as you prepare to have your brick painted. Brick is porous, and trapped moisture can cause chipping, peeling and bubbling in paint after it is applied, as well as mildew and rotting if left unresolved. If you live in a home where excess moisture is a concern, consider repainting every 7-10 years to prevent moisture damage.