Brick House Painting in Ardmore, OK

Brick house painting in Ardmore, OK gives an older or dated brick home a clean, even color with a breathable masonry coating that lets the wall dry out. Safe Choice Painting washes the brick, checks and repairs mortar first, primes, and applies two coats. If you would rather keep some brick texture showing, limewash and brick stain are options too.

Brick in Ardmore homes

Brick runs through every era of Ardmore housing. On western Stanley Avenue in Highland Park, the state's survey describes large two-story Colonial Revival, Neoclassical and Tudor homes, and Tudor houses of that period often used brick for the walls. The 1935 Turner House on 3rd Avenue SW, listed on the National Register in 2013, is built of brick and tile. Many ranch homes from the 1950s through the 1980s pair a brick front with wood or hardboard siding on the other walls. Each of these needs a different plan. A soft, older brick needs gentler cleaning than a hard modern brick, and a brick front next to wood siding needs two different coatings that end up the same color.

Your decision, not the city's

Painting brick on a house in Ardmore does not go through a city design process. Under Ardmore UDC Sec. 414, the only designated historic preservation overlay is the Downtown Historic District. Highland Park and McLish have been surveyed as possible National Register districts, but that brings no paint rules. Still, painted brick is hard to undo, so we talk through color, sheen and the look of the mortar lines before anything goes on the wall. A painted test patch on a back corner shows how the color reads against your roof, trim and yard before the whole house is committed. If you are still deciding, our answer on whether to paint a brick house lays out the trade-offs.

Freeze and thaw

Carter County set its record low of 17 below zero on February 16, 2021, and the Oklahoma Mesonet counts about five days a year when the high stays below freezing. Water that soaks into brick and then freezes expands and can flake the brick face and push paint off. That is why the coating matters. A breathable masonry paint lets moisture leave the wall, while a regular film-forming house paint can hold it in. We also check the things that put water into brick in the first place: gutters that overflow, sprinklers that hit the wall and soil piled against the bottom courses.

How the job goes

1. Brick is washed at low pressure and left to dry for at least a couple of days.
2. Cracked or missing mortar is pointed out and repointed before painting.
3. Efflorescence, the white powder on some brick, is brushed off and its water source noted.
4. A masonry primer goes on, then two coats of masonry paint, worked into the mortar joints.
5. Windows, trim and light fixtures are masked, and trim is painted in the same visit if you want it.

Other ways to change brick

Not every brick home needs solid paint. Limewash soaks into the brick and wears softly over time, and brick staining changes the color while keeping the brick's texture and mortar lines visible. For the siding on the rest of the house, see siding painting in Ardmore. For whole-house work, see exterior painting in Ardmore, and the general guide is brick house painting.

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