Front elevation before Top-Tier began the exterior preparation and repaint.
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Anna and Cooper had just purchased their two-story wood home and wanted to address the peeling, fading paint immediately. Top-Tier restored the exterior through extensive preparation and a durable Sherwin-Williams finish.
This exterior had extensive peeling paint and tall walls on every side. The crew scraped, sanded, primed, and caulked the wood before applying the finish coats.
Anna and Cooper were so pleased with the completed work that they referred Top-Tier to Anna's parents for their own painting project.
Read 200+ ReviewsThe completed rear elevation shows how careful preparation and a coordinated Stone Lion and Natural Linen palette brought this Lake Elmo exterior back to life.
Anna and Cooper had recently purchased this home and wanted to deal with the failing exterior paint before the peeling became a larger problem. Because the home is two stories with tall elevations, the work required careful access and extensive surface preparation.
Kevin and the crew pressure washed the exterior, scraped loose paint, sanded the wood, primed exposed areas, caulked joints, masked windows and fixtures, and protected the landscaping.
The preparation created a sound foundation for the finish coats and gave the siding, garage door, soffits, trim, porch, doors, railings, fascia, and architectural details a clean, unified appearance.
This project demonstrates why preparation matters on an older wood exterior with widespread peeling paint.
The homeowners had just purchased the property and wanted to address the faded, peeling paint right away. The amount of failing coating meant the crew could not simply wash and repaint the house.
Extensive scraping, sanding, priming, and caulking were required across the tall elevations. That preparation removed unstable paint, smoothed the wood, sealed joints, and created a stronger surface for the new coatings.
The final result gave the home a fantastic updated appearance designed to last—and the homeowners' referral to Anna's parents was a meaningful vote of confidence in the crew's work.
The original exterior showed fading and extensive peeling across the siding, porch, trim, and tall elevations surrounding the home.
Front elevation before Top-Tier began the exterior preparation and repaint.
Side elevation showing the weathered wood siding before preparation.
Tall rear walls, windows, chimney, and porch areas before the prep work began.
Screened porch, posts, trim, deck, and adjoining siding before painting.
Rear corner and service-door elevation before the failing coating was corrected.
Broad side wall showing the condition of the siding before surface preparation.
These in-progress photos show the amount of loose coating that had to be removed before the exterior could be primed and painted properly.
Prep in Progress
Loose paint removed from the upper and lower wood siding before sanding and priming.
Prep in Progress
The scraped elevation shows why surface preparation was the most important part of this project.
The finished photos show a consistent, durable coating across the front, rear, porch, garage, siding, soffits, fascia, windows, doors, and trim.
Finished front elevation with restored siding, trim, garage, columns, and architectural details.
Completed exterior showing the coordinated Stone Lion and Natural Linen palette.
Finished rear elevation, screened porch, deck, windows, and tall exterior walls.
Completed side elevation with an even finish across siding, soffits, fascia, and trim.
Rear corner and deck elevation after the full preparation and finish-coat process.
Different products and sheens were selected to suit the home's siding, trim, soffits, garage, and screened-porch woodwork.
Sherwin-Williams Duration Satin in Natural Linen was used on the gutters, fascia, door trim, garage-door trim, pillars, and corbels.
Duration Low Lustre in Stone Lion was used on the siding, garage door, soffits, window trim, shakes, and vertical corner trim.
WoodScapes Solid in Stone Lion was used on the screened-porch window trim, posts, upper trim, and trim below the first-level deck skirt.
The success of this project depended on removing unstable material and carefully preparing the wood before the finish coats were applied.
Pressure wash the exterior and protect landscaping, windows, and fixtures.
Remove the extensive loose and peeling paint from the wood siding.
Smooth the transition between exposed wood and remaining sound coatings.
Prime prepared areas and seal joints to create a sound painting surface.
Apply the selected Duration and WoodScapes coatings for lasting protection.
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