Exterior Painting in Rochester, NY, Built to Hold Through Real Weather
Cedar shake, cedar siding, aluminum, vinyl, wood, hardboard, cement board, and metalwork. Prep that's actually done, product matched to the surface, and a 5-year written warranty handed to you at project completion.
What Exterior Painting Actually Involves
Exterior Painting, Done the Way Rochester Weather Requires
An exterior paint job that lasts is not about the paint. It's about what happens before the paint goes on. Washing off years of dirt and mildew. Scraping loose or failing coats. Sanding rough spots smooth. Caulking every joint where water wants to get in. Priming bare wood, bleeding knots, and any surface where the top coat won't grab without help. Only after all of that does the actual painting start.
Bates Brothers handles the full exterior scope, and does the prep the way it needs to be done for this climate. Cedar shake in Pittsford. Cedar clapboard siding in Brighton. Aluminum siding on ranches across Webster and Fairport. Vinyl on newer builds in Victor. Wood trim, hardboard panels, cement board, garage doors, front doors, shutters, railings, and any exterior metalwork the house has.
Every exterior project runs through Max personally for the estimate, the scope confirmation, the final walkthrough, and the warranty handoff. Our team is on-site running the prep, the paint, and the daily site work through the length of the project.
The Full Exterior Scope
What's Included on an Exterior Project
Washed with the right chemistry, spot-scraped where the previous finish has failed, sanded smooth on weathered patches, primed where cedar bleed or bare wood needs sealing, and top-coated with a product built for cedar's movement.
Cleaned to remove chalking and dirt, spot-primed on any oxidized panels, and top-coated with a product formulated to bond to metal or vinyl without peeling in the first freeze-thaw cycle.
Prepped to the surface's requirements. Wood needs the most work, hardboard needs careful joint attention, cement board needs the right primer for the alkalinity.
The parts of the exterior that fail first because they're most exposed. Prepped, primed where needed, and painted with a durable exterior trim enamel.
Fully painted or refreshed with a proper exterior door product. Hardware masked or removed, the door treated as its own small project.
Railings, gutters, downspouts if you want them repainted, decorative wrought iron, and any other metalwork on the house. Rust spots addressed, appropriate primer applied, and finished with a metal-safe top coat.
The Paint That Goes on Your Exterior
Exterior product selection is more consequential than interior. A wall that faces west takes a beating that a north wall doesn't. A cedar surface needs a different product than a vinyl surface, which needs a different product than an aluminum surface. Choosing wrong is why "the last paint job failed in two winters" is one of the most common things we hear on estimates.
Bates Brothers uses professional-grade exterior product from major manufacturers, matched to the substrate, the exposure, and the climate this actually is. Cedar gets a cedar-appropriate line. Aluminum gets a bond-to-metal formulation. Wood clapboard, hardboard, and cement board each get products spec'd to what the material requires. Trim gets a hard-wearing exterior enamel.
Max walks you through the specific product selection during your estimate and explains why each surface on your home is getting what it's getting. Upgrading to a premium line for maximum service life is always an option.
The Reasons People Call
Exterior Painting Problems We Solve
"The last paint job started peeling after two winters"
Almost always a prep problem. Cedar wasn't washed properly. Aluminum wasn't spot-primed on the chalky panels. The previous painter used a builder-grade product on a surface that needed a premium exterior line. We do the prep the surface actually requires and spec the product to match.
"My cedar shake is going gray and I don't know what to do with it"
Drop cloths go down before the first tool comes out. Furniture gets covered and moved as little as possible. The crew cleans up at the end of every work day so you're not living around a job site. That's the whole point of hiring a real interior painter.
"I want to change the color of my aluminum siding but I've been told it can't be painted"
It can. Aluminum siding takes paint well when it's prepped properly and coated with a product formulated for the surface. Our team has repainted aluminum across the eastern suburbs. The results hold.
"I'm worried about weather delays disrupting my whole summer"
Exterior projects in Rochester are weather-dependent. Max builds the schedule around forecasts and communicates changes in advance. The crew stages the work to make the most of the days that are workable and pauses cleanly when they're not.
Exterior Projects Across the Eastern Suburbs
Cedar shake refreshed on a Pittsford colonial that had gone dull after seven summers. Aluminum siding brought back to color on a Fairport ranch the owners had been embarrassed to pull into the driveway for. A Brighton two-story with cedar trim that had failed at every joint, fully re-caulked and repainted. A Victor split-level with a new exterior color the owners had been thinking about for years.
Written, Signed, In Your Name
5-Year Written Warranty on Every Exterior Project
Every exterior painting project completed by Bates Brothers comes with a written 5-year warranty. Signed by Max at the final walkthrough. Issued in your name.
If a covered exterior finish fails inside those five years, Max is the one who comes back and takes care of it. The warranty document is from the same operation that painted the house, not from a third-party program or a franchise call center. That's what "written warranty" is supposed to mean.
Other Services Bates Brothers Offers:
Who's Actually Doing the Work
Why Homeowners Hire Bates Brothers for Exterior Work
Exterior painting is where a bad contractor experience becomes visible from the street for the next decade. Peeling siding. Chalky finish. Failed caulking on every joint. A trim color that never quite matched. You see it on Rochester-area homes constantly, and every one of them is a homeowner who paid real money for a job that didn't hold.
Bates Brothers is set up to prevent that outcome. A small, residential-only operation. Owner-led at every accountability point. A team that actually does the prep. A product spec that matches the surface. And a written warranty that says if the finish fails inside the coverage window, we come back and take care of it.
That's what a real exterior painting company is supposed to look like.
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