Interior & Exterior Painting
Full interior and exterior repaints — prep-heavy, clean-lined and color-matched to your home. In our sun, prep is what makes paint last, and it is where we spend our labor.
Anyone can make a house look good for six months
Making a house look good in year eight is a preparation problem — and it is exactly where The J Hammer spends its labor. Exterior paint in Southern California is not decoration; it is the sunscreen standing between UV and the stucco shell of your home. We prep heavy, paint clean, and use the right systems inside and out.
Exterior painting
- Wash — pressure-wash away chalk, dust and growth so primer bonds to stucco, not powder.
- Repair — route and fill cracks, re-texture to match, replace failed caulk at every joint.
- Prime — masonry primer on bare or chalky stucco (skipping this is the #1 cause of early peeling).
- Paint — two coats of 100% acrylic, or elastomeric on crack-prone walls, worked into the texture.
Interior painting
Inside, the details are primer on patches, the right sheen strategy — flat ceilings, eggshell walls, semi-gloss trim and doors — and clean, straight cut lines. Two coats, crisp edges, and surfaces protected so your floors and furniture come through untouched.
Color, done on your actual walls
LA’s bright light pushes every color lighter and cooler than the chip suggests, so we paint large swatches on two elevations and look at them morning, noon and dusk before committing. A fresh, well-prepped repaint is consistently one of the highest-ROI improvements a home can get — buyers read a crisp exterior as “maintained everywhere.”