Caulk · fascia · siding joints · sheetrock
Construction repairs before the paint goes on
Reseal and protect your home. Small repairs done by the crew that paints, so the coat goes over sound surfaces.
Chapter 01
Reseal and protect: caulk and seals fail first
The headline on our own page for this service is the job in five words: reseal and protect your home. Paint is only half the weatherproofing on a house. The other half is the caulk and sealant at trim, fascia, window and door casings, and the joints where siding meets siding, and those joints are where water gets in when a seal fails.
Eastern Washington's intense summer sun, dry heat and seasonal winds work on those seals every year. They shrink, crack and pull away from the wood. Our crews find them during prep, after the wash, and recaulk before priming, because paint over an open joint looks finished for a season and then lets moisture in behind it.
Smile-A-Mile crew on ladders working the trim and fascia of a brown board-and-batten home
Water-damaged walls and fascia, found before the paint covers them
Some problems are bigger than a bead of caulk. The first home in our annual Smile Affect project, Doug Welch's, needed a water-damaged wall replaced before anything else could happen. The crew replaced the wall, then scraped and masked, then painted the full exterior. Painting over that wall would have hidden the damage, not fixed it.
A Google review from Kevin Law describes the same kind of catch: the crew helped him get issues with his gutters and fascia resolved while they prepped and painted his house. Fascia and gutters sit right where roof water meets the wall, so that is often where an exterior problem begins. We tell you what we see, and we say plainly when something is beyond a painter's repair.
Sometimes the repair is carpentry of a different kind. For Patricia Wildenborg, the 2019 Smile Affect recipient, the crew built a new ramp alongside the bright blue repaint she picked.
Chapter 03
Why one crew for the repair and the paint
Hiring a repair contractor and then a painter means two schedules, two estimates and a gap where each assumes the other handled the prep. With one company, the repair, the prep and the coat go into a single detailed written proposal, and the project management team and office staff answer your calls about all of it.
Indoors it works the same way on a smaller scale. We take care of minor sheetrock settling cracks, fill nail holes and can help with other minor sheetrock repairs before the walls are painted, because a crack left under new paint comes back as a line you can see across the room.
Our work is backed by a 2-year warranty on workmanship, and the company is licensed, bonded and insured in Washington under contractor license SMILEP*896CW. Houses in Kennewick, Pasco and Richland all get the same order of work: repair, prep, prime, paint.
Smile-A-Mile Painting repairs and paints homes across Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and West Richland. Licensed, bonded and insured, WA #SMILEP*896CW.
The repairs on this page lead straight into the coat: read how the prep and finish run under exterior painting and interior painting, or see the home that started with a replaced wall on The Smile Affect page. The full service list and the contact page are a click away.