Painters for Candelas.

The whole neighborhood ages at once

Candelas went up fast, which produces a pattern you can set a calendar by: entire streets built in the same eighteen months reach repaint age in the same season. If your neighbors are getting bids, you probably should be too.

That is actually good news. Two or three houses on one street in a single mobilization lowers the cost for everybody, and we will quote it that way if you want to coordinate.

Approval comes before scheduling

Candelas is covenant-controlled with published palettes. Exterior color goes to the association before work begins, and the submission needs the proposed colors, where each one lands on the building, and usually product information.

We prepare that for you. What we cannot do is speed up the board. Start the submission early, because the single most common reason a Candelas repaint slips a month is paperwork, not weather.

Fiber cement and stucco, handled properly

Most of this community is fiber cement siding, stucco, or both on the same elevation. Each has a specific failure point:

• Fiber cement cut ends. Factory faces are primed. The ends cut on site often are not, and that is where water gets in. Every cut end gets sealed.
• Butt joints and flashing. These are water paths, not cosmetic seams. They are treated as such.
• Stucco cracks. Hairline cracking is normal with Colorado's temperature swings. It still needs filling with the right material before coating, or the crack reappears through the new paint by spring.
• Builder-grade original coating. The paint that came on the house was chosen for cost, not longevity. That is usually what is failing, not the substrate.

Exposure out here is real

Candelas sits high on the west side with open ground around it. There is very little blocking the afternoon sun or the wind coming off the foothills, and west and south elevations show it first. If your budget is tight, those are the walls to do now.