Most contractors make you book three meetings to learn a ballpark. We publish ours: in Southwest Florida, a professional exterior repaint starts around $6,500 and a whole-home interior starts around $7,500. Here's what moves those numbers — up and down — so you can read any bid, including ours.
The starting points
- Exterior repaint — from $6,500. A typical single-story stucco home: pressure wash, stucco crack repair, sealants at penetrations, primer where needed, and two coats of premium exterior acrylic.
- Interior repaint — from $7,500. Walls, ceilings and trim across a typical home, with low-VOC products, dust control, and everything you own protected.
- Elastomeric coatings — from $3.50 per square foot. The high-build, waterproofing-grade option for stucco that's cracking or chalking.
- Joint sealants — from $12 per linear foot. The caulk joints around windows and expansion joints that actually keep water out of the wall.
Full ranges are on our published pricing page — we keep it public on purpose.
What pushes the price up
- Height and access. A two-story home with tall gables needs more ladder and lift time than a ranch. On larger waterfront homes, staging alone is a real line item.
- Stucco condition. Hairline cracks are routine. Widespread cracking, previous coating failures, or chalky, never-sealed stucco mean more prep — and prep is most of what you're paying for.
- Sealant scope. In our salt-and-storm climate, window and joint sealants fail before paint does. Replacing them during a repaint is far cheaper than cutting them out later.
- Coating choice. Standard acrylic versus high-build elastomeric can change an exterior price meaningfully. Elastomeric costs more up front and buys you a thicker waterproof shell.
- Colors and bodies. A dramatic color change (light to dark, or dark to light) can need an extra coat. Multiple body colors, banding and accent features add cut-in time.
What a low bid usually leaves out
When one number comes in far below the rest, the difference is almost always invisible on day one: a single coat where two were quoted, paint sprayed over unrepaired cracks and failing caulk, no primer on bare patches, or a crew with no license or insurance behind it. The coating looks fine for a season — Florida sun and rain then find every shortcut. Painting is one of the few trades where you genuinely get what you pay for, because most of the cost is the labor before the paint comes out.
What it looks like when it's done right
Our recent homes show the standard: a canal-front estate in Cape Coral, a three-story Gulf-front home on Fort Myers Beach, and the Island Club House in Fort Myers. Every one got the same sequence — wash, repair, seal, prime, two coats — because that sequence is why the finish lasts.
Want a real number for your home? Request a free estimate — thirty seconds to ask, same-day response — or call (239) 772-1302.