Exterior painting in Menlo Park

Painting Menlo Park homes through warm summers

The nearest NOAA normals station, in Palo Alto about 2.1 miles east, averages 65.8 days a year at 80F or more and 12 at 90F or more. Direct sun on a hot wall makes a coat skin over before it flows out. We start on the side the sun has already left and save the hot walls for later in the day or a cooler morning.

Felton Gables is an enclave of 127 small ranch-style houses from the 1930s and 1940s, and Allied Arts is known for 1925 bungalows. Of Menlo Park's 13,388 housing units, 70.3% predate 1980, and on homes built before 1978 federal lead rules govern how paid crews disturb old paint. Construction noise is exempt from the residential limit 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays, and that is when our scraping and sanding happen.

Worth knowing about Menlo Park

• The City's neighborhood profiles place about 40 percent of South of Seminary-Vintage Oaks and about 15 percent of Suburban Park in a FEMA flood hazard area; Sharon Heights and Downtown are not.
• Palo Alto's NOAA normals station, the closest with temperature data, averages summer highs of 78.8F and winter lows of 39.7F, with 15.1 inches of precipitation a year.
• Menlo Park has 13,388 housing units; 70.3% predate 1980, 7.1% were built in 1939 or earlier, and the 1950s produced the most of any decade, 23.2%.