Boston’s housing stock ranks among the oldest in the country, with a large share of pre-1900 Victorian brownstones, Federal-style rowhouses, and triple-deckers concentrated in neighborhoods like Back Bay, Beacon Hill,…
Boise’s population surge, driven by remote workers relocating from California, Oregon, and Washington, pushed the metro area to be among the fastest-growing in the country through the early 2020s and…
Birmingham’s warm, humid climate creates specific challenges for exterior paint that painters in drier climates rarely encounter. The Southeast’s year-round moisture, combined with summer humidity levels that frequently exceed 90…
Baton Rouge sits within one of the most demanding exterior painting environments in the continental United States: average relative humidity hovers around 75 percent year-round, summer thunderstorms can deliver several…
An estimated 85,000 occupied housing units in Baltimore contain dangerous lead hazards, according to a 2022 Abell Foundation report, reflecting the city’s exceptionally old housing stock where roughly 42 percent…
Bakersfield’s position at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley gives it a hot Mediterranean climate that records over 270 sunny days per year and summer temperatures that regularly…
Austin’s explosive population growth over the past decade brought a surge of new residential construction, and many of those newer homes built during the 2020 to 2023 building boom are…
Aurora’s housing stock spans a wide architectural range, from 19th-century brick bungalows and Victorian-era homes on the West Side to contemporary subdivisions on the city’s growing eastern edge. The humid…
Aurora sits at roughly 5,400 feet above sea level, which translates to UV radiation intensity significantly higher than coastal cities at the same latitude. Colorado’s high-altitude sun breaks down exterior…
Augusta sits in the Central Savannah River Area, where a humid subtropical climate produces long, hot summers and mild winters, conditions that accelerate mildew growth on exterior paint surfaces and…
Atlanta’s intown neighborhoods, Inman Park, Grant Park, Candler Park, Virginia-Highland, and Kirkwood among them, contain some of the Southeast’s most concentrated stock of Craftsman bungalows and Victorian-era homes, most built…
Arlington sits in the geographic center of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and the city’s growth from a small agricultural town in the 1950s to a municipality of nearly 400,000 residents…
Anchorage’s subarctic climate compresses the exterior painting season into a narrow window, roughly late May through early September, when temperatures remain consistently above 50 degrees Fahrenheit and daylight hours are…
Anaheim’s housing stock is a mix of mid-century single-family homes, stucco-clad tract developments from the 1960s through 1980s, and newer infill construction throughout the city’s residential neighborhoods west of the…
Amarillo sits at roughly 3,600 feet elevation on the Texas Panhandle, where intense UV radiation at altitude accelerates paint fading faster than lower-elevation Texas cities, and where sharp temperature swings…
Albuquerque’s housing stock is defined by stucco exteriors finished to evoke the region’s centuries-old adobe and Pueblo Revival architectural traditions, with most homes in the metro area covered in a…
Akron’s housing market features a substantial share of pre-1960 homes, particularly in neighborhoods like Kenmore, Ellet, and West Akron, where two-story colonials and craftsman-style bungalows are common. The Northeast Ohio…
Orlando’s subtropical climate delivers year-round heat, frequent afternoon thunderstorms, and humidity levels that rarely drop below 50 percent, conditions that test exterior paint films constantly and make mildew resistance a…
Ontario sits at the western edge of San Bernardino County where the Inland Empire’s hot, dry summers and occasional Santa Ana wind events put exterior paint systems under consistent UV…
Omaha’s continental climate produces some of the widest temperature swings in the continental United States, January averages around 24 degrees, while summer highs regularly push into the upper 80s and…
Oklahoma recorded 518 severe weather events in 2022 alone, including 214 hail storms and 276 wind events, and the Oklahoma City metro ranks among the most hail-damaged urban areas in…
Oceanside sits directly on the North County San Diego coast, where salt-laden marine air, persistent coastal fog, and year-round UV exposure push paint to fail two to three times faster…
Oakland’s housing inventory is one of the most architecturally varied in California, with Victorian and Craftsman homes from the late 1800s concentrated in neighborhoods like Temescal and Fruitvale sitting alongside…
North Las Vegas has been one of the fastest-growing cities in Clark County, with new construction pushing northward as available land within the Las Vegas core runs out. Most homes…
Norfolk’s identity as the home of the world’s largest naval station shapes its painting market in ways that are immediately apparent to anyone familiar with the industry: commercial coating projects…
New York City’s housing stock presents painters with conditions found nowhere else in the country. More than 650,000 residential units were built before 1960, and under Local Law 31, all…
Newport News Shipbuilding, operating continuously since 1886, is the largest industrial employer in Virginia and the only facility in the country where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are designed, built, and…
New Orleans presents painting contractors with a combination of challenges found nowhere else in North America: the city’s average humidity exceeds 70% year-round, its architecture spans nearly three centuries of…
Newark is a city of dense urban housing typologies, from the brick row houses of Ironbound to the Victorian and Colonial Revival detached homes in Forest Hills and Weequahic, many…