New Orleans exteriors are a different job than newer coastal stock. With homes dating to about 1958 and much older in the historic neighborhoods, we repaint houses from the Marigny and Bywater to Carrollton, where layered coatings, wood siding, and decades of settling demand real prep. Wash, scrape, treat any rot, and seal the joints first. On these older homes, sound preparation is the entire difference between a coat that lasts and one that peels within a season.
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Public data for New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA — sources: U.S. Census ACS · Open-Meteo · OSRM.
Salt air, UV, and coastal substrate — scoped wall by wall, primed for what it's actually made of.
New Orleans pairs humid subtropical climate with a housing stock that includes a lot of pre-1978 inventory, which is why EPA RRP Lead-Safe protocols matter here from prep to cleanup. The French Quarter, Marigny, and Uptown homes with their cypress siding, plaster interiors, and wood-trim galleries demand a slower, more deliberate prep than newer Lakeview construction, and the river-and-lake position keeps moisture loading high year-round.
Painting needs across the city follow the neighborhood. The historic cores call for interior repaints, careful exterior prep on shotgun and Creole cottages, and trim restoration on details that do not exist in newer markets; Lakeview, Algiers, and the post-Katrina rebuilds lean toward full exterior repaints, cabinet refreshes, and larger interior packages tied to renovations.
New Orleans is roughly 140 miles west of Mobile, so service is planned as a Mobile-dispatched project rather than a Spanish Fort day trip, with project sizing that accounts for travel. Scheduling also accounts for French Quarter access restrictions, Mardi Gras and festival windows, and parking in older neighborhoods.
New Orleans homes average roughly 64 years old, and many in the Garden District, Uptown, and Mid-City predate 1978, so exteriors carry thick layered paint, chalked older coats, and lead-based finishes on original wood siding, brackets, and trim. We work Lead-Safe certified, containing and cleaning up dust on any pre-1978 house. About 45 inches of rain a year and a July climate near 92 degrees bake and fade south and west walls while shaded faces hold damp and grow mildew, and Gulf storm systems drive rain into every aging seam. We pressure-wash, scrape and spot-prime failing paint to a sound edge, itemize rotted trim and siding for replacement, treat mildew, re-caulk leaking joints, and match a coastal-rated system to each exposure so the finish ages evenly across an old house.
One accountable crew runs the project through final inspection, supported by weekly team training and a manager sign-off before final payment. Residential exterior work carries our 3-year workmanship warranty, and pre-1978 homes are handled under our EPA RRP Lead-Safe certification. Homeowners across the Gulf Coast have given us a 4.8★ rating across 317 Google reviews. Call (251) 621-1100 for a free in-home estimate; the written quote follows within 24 hours of the estimate.
“I highly recommend Pro 1 Painters for many reasons. Great work ethic, extremely detail oriented, totally dependable and very professional. Had the exterior of my house painted — 2.5 story wood home on a hill. They showed up promptly at 8.”
“From start to finish, this has been such a great experience. Seab came to our home for the consultation and really took the time to explain everything in detail. Dobie, Oliver and Louis did an awesome job on our exterior paint job.”
“The paint job was great. They scraped the entire house and primed what needed to be primed. And then hand painted with the brush the whole house. They also replaced rotten wood for an extra fee.”
Interior and exterior carpentry available as part of paint scope.
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Combined interior and exterior whole-house painting — the package most homeowners book on a full repaint.
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