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Kind Home Solutions is an exterior and interior painting company operating in Lafayette, Colorado. Our customers in Lafayette love us! Don’t believe us? Google, Facebook, and HomeAdvisor reviews don’t lie. Scroll down to view a map of completed jobs in and around Lafayette, read reviews, and learn more about house painting and weather damage protection for the city of Lafayette.
Owning a home in Lafayette can come with it’s headaches, as any home owner knows. Keeping your house in tip top shape and preserving it’s integrity is high on most home owners list. We want to help you understand what can cause wear and tear on your houses exterior and ways that you can help prevent this. A proper house painting job – as well as other home maintenance techniques – will protect your home from all of the weather conditions Colorado has to offer. Kind Home Solutions has painted hundreds of homes in Lafayette and the Denver area. On this page you will learn a little background of Lafayette and how the weather conditions affect house painting in Lafayette, Colorado.
The City of Lafayette is a Home Rule Municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 24,453 at the 2010 United States Census. Lafayette is located in southeastern Boulder County. It is bordered by the town of Erie to the north and east, by the city of Broomfield to the east and south, and by Louisville to the southwest. U.S. Highway 287 is the main road through the city, leading north to Longmont and south to Broomfield and Denver. – Wikipedia
The temperature in Lafayette, Colorado is higher then average for Colorado cities. Depending on your houses position, your house could have a even higher temperature in certain areas where its well above the average temperature. High temperatures can affect your houses paint job years down the road with sun damage. Surfaces in the direct sunlight can be 10-15 degrees hotter pushing the temperature on your house to over 100 degrees on the hottest months of the year. These areas are typically affected by sun damage and result in extreme fading. The hot season lasts for 3.1 months, from June 8 to September 13, with an average daily high temperature above 79°F. The hottest day of the year is July 13, with an average high of 88°F and low of 59°F. The cold season lasts for 3.4 months, from November 19 to March 1, with an average daily high temperature below 52°F. The coldest day of the year is December 30, with an average low of 19°F and high of 42°F.
Paint is a great way to protect your home’s exterior, and most important is executing a professional paint job. A quality paint job will last for 10+ year if done properly, and temperature is a large part of that. Painting helps hold your trim and siding together and is very important in protecting your house. The better the paint holds, the more it will protect the trim and siding from being damaged.
Temperatures that are too hot or too cold can drastically affect your paint job from lasting the appropriate length of time. If the paint is applied during the wrong times then your paint isn’t going to stick. As you can see in the chart above, there are definitely better times to paint than others. This is one of the many reasons hiring a professional painter is in your best interest.
The painting professionals at Kind Home Solutions know that prep work is one of the most important parts of the job. We pride ourselves on our prep process, and no detail is overlooked. From cleaning the surface and masking areas where paint shouldn’t drip to proper clean up we pay attention to all aspects of the job, not just painting.
Another aspect is applying high quality paint after prep. If you do proper prep work and use high quality paint chances of sun damage are eliminated for years after the paint job is completed.
At Kind Home Solutions, we value our clients and communication as much as quality. When we meet with you our number one goal is to educate you on the process and the materials that go into creating a long lasting paint job. During this process we will do a deep dive into what goes into the best painting materials to be used in Colorado.
Wind can play a bigger part in damaging your exterior paint then what comes to mind. After painting your house there is maintenance that needs to be done to preserve your house. Dirt accumulating on your home will greatly reduce the time that your paint job will last, which will also lead to damage on your siding and trim. The wind speed is higher then the USA average, during the summer time. This makes homes that are in Lafayette, Colorado more susceptible to dirt accumulation during these times. Siding/roof damage by debris and tree limbs is also more susceptible.
There are easy solutions for protecting your house from dirt and debris. A simple power wash once a year can drastically improve the life of your house after a paint job. A professional power wash will clear the dirt and debris to the point where you won’t have too much accumulating. Too much accumulation will start creating cracks in the paint, and the paint will start chipping much faster than you might of anticipated.
A yearly power wash will ensure that your house will never accumulate too much dirt in debris to the point where it stops your preservation of you house. Learn how to get a power wash yearly maintenance plan from Kind Home Solutions. Call us at 720-807-9068 or click the button below to get a free estimate.
Lafayette has had its fair share of hail storms and this is one of the biggest concerns in the preservation of your house. Hail storms have drastically increased since the past 7 years. The siding and your roof are the most vulnerable parts of your house of your house that get damaged during a hail storm.
Lafayette, Colorado (population: 24453) had 28 hail reports within 10 miles of the city center located at (39.9936, -105.08971) in 2019. The largest report of hail in 2019 near Lafayette was 2.50 inches. The zipcode with the highest number of damaging hail reports near Lafayette in 2019 is 80027, with 7 reports. The largest report of hail near Lafayette was 3.00 inches in 2018. The zipcode with the highest number of damaging hail reports near Lafayette is 80026, with 20 reports.
Routine roof inspections will reduce the risk of having to replace your roof after a hailstorm. Roof inspections regularly drastically decreases the risk of having to replace your roof after a hailstorm by staying ahead of any damage before it becomes a bigger problem. Fortunately, if you have insurance, you will be able to do so if you are hit with a bad hailstorm. Cleaning out your gutters regularly will also protect your house from getting damage on trim and siding from water leaks and other damage.
Kind Home Solutions offers inspections and does work with insurance companies. Talk to a Kind Home Solutions Specialist about inspections, roof replacements and gutter maintenance today by calling 720-807-9068. Or click the button below to get a free estimate of your hail damage project.