<p>How frequently do you have to repaint your house? And, what kind of siding do you have?</p>
<p>Wood siding. Trim touched up 5 years ago, body painted in 2001. Both look fine. I do, however, live in a very mild climate which is easy on paint…</p>
<p>I have vinyl siding that is about five years old. Its great quality so hopefulky it lasts. My parents vinyl siding has onlyfaded a bit in twenty five years.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>We have stucco and paint it every 5 or 6 years. We live in south Florida and the hot, wet summers are very tough on the paint.</p>
<p>When we get a letter from our neighborhood association saying it needs painting :-). Seriously only about every 6-8 years. It’s mostly brick.</p>
<p>^^^All, do you live in my subdivision? My association loves to send letter and call to inform us what is wrong with our house and the neighbors!</p>
<p>When we are years beyond needing it! We have an all brick house so only the trim, doors and shutters need painting. I love my painter and have used him for 25 years, but his prices have gone way up and our income has gone way down 
I need to find someone cheaper so I can do it more often…</p>
<p>On my house? Never. Aluminum siding, now forty years old. It looks pretty bad at this point, with some areas sun-bleached and other areas mildew stained. BUT I grew up in a LARGE two-and-a-half story house that needed painting every five or six years. We painted it from ladders. It was an all-summer job, one that we hated.</p>
<p>Nowadays there are companies that advertise lifetime paint jobs. The job costs half-again what a regular paint job costs. Initial results look good … in part because the heavy paint tends to disguise imperfections in the clapboards. YMMV.</p>
<p>Semi clan, I just painted my house for first time in 13 years. Used the same painters, and a special paint for our hot sun.</p>
<p>Never (it’s brick).</p>
<p>We had the trim painted about 10 years ago though. And when we had a house with wood siding, it seemed like we had it done every 5 years.</p>
<p>Paint never begins to last as long as the label says or I think it should, and I always scrape well and prime. We have a huge (76’ long) front porch and the railings, vertical posts, spindles and floor need it ever 4-5 years. We live in the midwest–snow, humid/hot summers, and the porch faces west with no sun protection.</p>
<p>Vinyl siding that still looks great (12 years so far). It will look good to my eyes until the day it rots (or I do). Bought the absolute highest end made at the time we built and hoping it stays that way. H wanted wood siding at the time and I fortunately won out on maintenance issues (it would have been a nightmare from the get go).
Still sorry I didn’t win on the wood deck/railing discussion–but that is a much smaller consideration.</p>
<p>Vinyl siding and resin decking and metal uprights! I only paint trim about every three years.</p>
<p>We have Duration exterior paint on our house. It was done about 12 years ago and looks as good today as the day it was painted on. We get it power washed every couple of years.</p>
<p>Just got it painted this spring with a paint that is supposed to last longer (also rough climate here) painters did a tremendous amount of prep work, I’ll let you know how it is in 10 years or so. Time prior to that about 10 years ago with reg Sherwin Williams House paint, probably should have done it 2 year sooner. But with tuition payments…</p>
<p>We had our house (cedar siding) painted with Duration paint in 2004. We repainted in
Fall 2011 in preparation for putting the house on the market. The Duration paint held up well. We live in the south …hot humid summers.</p>
<p>Vinyl siding. One wood door which is overdue, and some of the shutters are wood.</p>
<p>
The companies around here that offer this charge 3x more than a paint job, not 50% more. And if the surface isn’t perfect they won’t guarantee it, which means the prep costs as much as the super-expensive paint.</p>
<p>I’ve been siding all of my rentals. For 2x the cost of paint, I don’t have to worry about it for another 30 or 40 years.</p>
<p>We paint about every 10- 15 years- lotso prep work.
Old growth cedar siding. Just finished painting- except for rebuilding the front steps.
Huh- it has a lifetime warranty?
[8500</a> Evolution Exterior Lifetime Warranty Coating](<a href=“http://millerpaintmsds.getservd.net/ProdSheet/ps8500.htm]8500”>http://millerpaintmsds.getservd.net/ProdSheet/ps8500.htm)
In our area vinyl siding is being removed- people want cedar.</p>
<p>Ugh, we live in New England. We last painted our home in 2001, and it is in need of painting again. We used a high-end painter who sanded most of the previous paint away. However, the climate changes are huge and the shingles are old. Will probably paint this summer, after repairing the front and back steps and replacing some windows.</p>
<p>I try to paint every ten years or so but the most exposed parts of our trim need painting now, after only 6 years. My handyman, who also paints, has advised me to stop painting the trim a dark color (to give it a wood-like appearance) and paint it a very light one for longer wear.</p>