What does exterior painting cost for your house?

For a first impression, you can go by these national from-prices. A whole house is almost always a sum of parts: facade sections, window frames, doors, and often some repair to the wood.

This is only an example based on the from-prices, not an estimate for your home. Say there is 40 m2 of woodwork and facade cladding, plus six exterior window frames. That is 40 times from €35, so from €1,400, plus six times from €50, so from €300. Together that is from €1,700, and that is before a single spot has been repaired and with no scaffolding yet.

In practice the difference lies mostly in those last two. So this sum gives you a lower limit, but not yet a price. That only follows once we have seen the surface.

Open land and water make it hard on paint here. Wind and damp come mainly from the south-west, so south and west facades and sills are due sooner than the rest. With a house around the lakes, or a farmhouse with barge boards and owl boards, there is simply more wood catching that wind.

As a guide, opaque exterior paintwork lasts 6 to 8 years. On our page about how often you need to paint the exterior you can read how to judge that per facade. If one side is still good and the other is not, you do not always have to do everything at once.

Waiting a year looks like a saving, until the paint opens up. Damp then gets into the wood, and what was still sanding and touching up in spring becomes repair with two-part repair filler or a piece of new timber let in. In the market guide, that is the difference between just from €50 per frame and that plus from €50 per rotten spot.

If you do not want to reassess it year by year, a long-term maintenance plan (MJOP) for 5 or 10 years fits. You then know when each piece of maintenance is due, and with that plan a 10 year guarantee applies.

Take a photo of every facade around the house, and then close-ups of the sills, the bottom of the doors and the corners of the window frames. That is where it usually starts. Also tell us how old the house is, when it was last painted and whether you want to change colour.

For a 1930s house or older we ask extra questions about earlier paint layers. According to OnderhoudNL, white lead was only banned outdoors in 2009, so older layers may still contain it. Don't know the measurements? No problem, we take them during the site visit.

• Amount of wood. A terraced house with plastic fascia boards is a different job from a house with timber cladding all round.
• Height. A gable end needs scaffolding or a cherry picker. We have our own scaffolding, with a fixed price for putting it up and taking it down.
• Colour change. Going from white to anthracite or back sometimes needs an extra coat.
• Preparation. Degreasing, sanding, priming, filling and sealing is most of the work in the whole job.
• Finish. High gloss needs a flatter surface than satin.

At our project in Sneek, RAL 7016 and RAL 9010 came together, so two colours on one house.

Painting outdoors is only possible when it is dry, between 5 and 30 degrees Celsius, with humidity below 85 percent. In Friesland that is not the same number of days every month. On our page about painting weather it is set out per month, measured at Stavoren and Leeuwarden.

How many days your job takes depends on its size and the condition of the wood. You can read more under how long exterior painting takes. Because we do not hire the scaffolding by the day, a wet week does not cost you any extra scaffolding hire.

We sand with Festool at 150, 180 and 240 grit, mask neatly and apply two top coats, using Sikkens among others. We cut out rotten wood back to sound wood. That is exactly what we did on the 1930s house in Langweer, finished in Express High Gloss in cream white and antique green.

For everything else involved in exterior painting in Friesland, we have a separate page. On Google we are rated 4.8 from 25 reviews, with recurring comments about honest advice and thinking along on colours.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you want, and we will come round for the site visit. After that you know exactly what it costs and what will happen, and you can decide in your own time. You can also call: 06 3006 0558.

The amounts above are a national market guide, not our prices. Source of this guide: Werkspot, Trustoo, Homedeal and Slimster, as of October 2026.