Exterior painting in San Mateo

From Shoreview tracts to Eichler wood in San Mateo

Hillsdale has one-story Minimal Traditional and Post-War Minimal houses, Shoreview built 1,200 homes in 1949 alone, and 19th Avenue Park is an Eichler tract built from 1953 to 1955. The City describes Eichlers as post-and-beam houses, often with clerestory windows, and their wood exteriors need hand scraping and primer on every bare board before paint.

About 70.4% of San Mateo's 42,641 housing units predate 1980, and federal lead rules cover paid scraping and sanding on homes built before 1978. Painting is permit-exempt here. Noisy prep like power sanding stays inside the city's construction hours: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays and holidays.

Worth knowing about San Mateo

• 19th Avenue Park is an Eichler tract built from 1953 to 1955. The City describes Eichlers as post-and-beam houses, often with a central atrium or courtyard and clerestory windows.
• Filled former baylands reach as far west as El Camino Real. The City's Safety Element says settlement on that fill, typically on the east side, cracks buildings and foundations.
• A FEMA map effective 2001 put areas north of Highway 92 under mandatory flood insurance; about 4,000 properties came off the map in 2011 and about 1,600 addresses in 2024.