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The Brick Lasts, the Wood Doesn’t
Apartment painting in Westlake is about protecting an investment: the brick lasts for generations, but the wood around it doesn't.
The apartment buildings shown here are two-story brick, a common style for older Westlake rentals. What wears out is everything that isn't brick: wood windows, soffits and fascia, gables, porticos, columns, railings and doors. Once that paint fails, water gets into the wood, and a paint job turns into carpentry.
What owners and managers tell us they want:
- buildings that look cared for, so units rent
- wood protected before it rots
- no disruption for tenants
How We Paint Apartment Exteriors
Step 1: Plan around tenants
We work building by building. Tenants get notice before we reach their entry, and walkways stay open.
Step 2: Ladders and a lift
Ladders handle lower trim and porticos. A lift reaches the upper soffits and gables safely.
Step 3: Prep the wood, then paint
Surfaces are prepped, bare wood is primed and gaps are caulked so water can't get behind the trim. Then windows, soffits, trim, columns, shutters and doors get two coats of a durable exterior finish.
Apartment Painting in Westlake: What to Expect
Bright, uniform trim against the brick makes an older building look maintained, and sealed wood stops rot before it starts.
Wood windows are the priority
At the Westlake apartment community shown here, painted in 2023, the scope covered the wood windows, the siding, the soffits and all the trim. For apartment painting in Westlake, the wood windows matter most: once the paint on a sill fails, water sits on bare wood every time it rains. Everything was coated in Sherwin-Williams Latitude in a satin finish, which bonds well and holds up to the temperature swings off Lake Erie.
Questions we hear
Do tenants need to leave? No. Exterior work happens around them, with notice before we reach each entry.
Can you phase the work? Yes: building by building, or side by side, to fit your schedule.
Do you fix soft or rotted trim? We flag soft wood during prep and make sure it’s repaired before any paint goes on. Paint never goes over rot.
Do you paint wood windows on rentals? Yes. Sills and sashes are prepped, primed where bare and painted, since they fail first.
Managing apartments in Westlake? Book my estimate visit or call 440-319-9556. Every job comes with a written 2-year workmanship warranty.
