Painting in Oakland, CA

A Craftsman bungalow's exterior wood — the fence, a deck, porch railings — is a lot of what makes the house read as cared for from the street, and it's also what takes the most weathering year after year of sun and winter rain. Around Fruitvale, the Dimond District and East Oakland, we regularly paint fences, gates and outdoor structures that have gone gray, chalky or started peeling after years without attention, on properties where the wood underneath is still perfectly good and just needs the right prep and a coat that will hold.

We handle exterior painting for fences, decks, railings and other outdoor structures — not the house itself, but everything around it that faces the weather directly. On a lot of jobs that starts with pressure washing to strip old, flaking paint and built-up grime before anything new goes on, so the finish actually holds instead of peeling again within a season the way a coat applied straight over old paint tends to. We tell you honestly if a section needs more prep than paint alone will fix, and if a board has gone soft it's worth flagging before it just gets painted over and hidden.