Painting Homes and Businesses Across Kelowna

Downtown is mostly strata towers and low-rise condos, where interior repaints dominate and building rules set work hours, elevator bookings and where we can stage. We confirm those rules with the property manager before day one.

South Pandosy and the Lakeshore Road corridor mix older character homes, infill duplexes and newer townhomes. Being a few minutes from our office makes a single bedroom or a quick touch-up visit easy to book.

Glenmore and Dilworth Mountain filled in mostly from the 1980s to the 2000s, with family homes on sloped lots and plenty of stucco. Inside, many still have builder beige walls and orange-toned oak trim.

Hillside lots leave some walls fully open to sun and wind. On exteriors we check the stucco for hairline cracks before choosing a coating.

Rutland and Belgo hold many of the city's 1960s to 1980s homes, often split-levels with a suite downstairs. Rental turnovers and basement suite refreshes are a big share of our work here.

Because so many of these houses predate 1990, we ask about the build year early. Textured ceilings and older joint compound may need testing before anyone sands or scrapes, as our pre-1990 hazardous materials guide explains.

The Lower Mission has large homes near the lake with lots of trim and big windows. The 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire destroyed hundreds of homes in the Mission area, so many houses further up the hill date from the rebuild that followed.

Kettle Valley is a planned neighbourhood with front porches, columns and plenty of painted trim. Vaulted great rooms and two-storey entries here mean we often bring scaffolding for interior work.

These are Kelowna's newer hillside subdivisions, with view decks, tall stairwells and open-plan main floors. Many homes are only a few years past handover, so the first repaint often replaces builder-grade flat paint that scuffs at a touch.

Steep driveways and tight side yards affect where we park and set up ladders. We check access during the walkthrough, not on the first morning.

On the east side of the lake, view homes in Glenmore, Dilworth and the Mission face west, straight into the hottest afternoon sun. Those walls, decks and garage doors fade and chalk first.

In July and August we paint west elevations in the morning, before the surface heats up and the paint skins over too fast to level.

Many recent summers have filled the valley with smoke, leaving fine ash and residue on siding, soffits and decks. Paint does not bond well over it, so washing comes first.

Our guide to wildfire smoke and ash on exterior paint covers cleanup and when a repaint actually makes sense.

Through much of the winter a low inversion cloud can sit over the valley for days, keeping walls cold and damp. That makes winter a good season for interiors and a poor one for exteriors.

Freeze-thaw cycles open stucco cracks and split old caulking. Spring is the time to spot the damage, and our guide on the best time to paint an exterior in the Okanagan explains how to plan around the season.