Mr. Paint

Small. Local. Family Owned. Licensed & Insured. Warranty on every job. Interior, exterior, cabinets, decks & more. Mr. Serving Greater Seattle. Free estimates.

Paint does it right the first time — every time.

05/23/2026

Rolling a ceiling feels natural. It's almost always the wrong call. 🎨

Here's why we spray. 👇

05/22/2026

🚫 Why we don't caulk fiber cement siding — and what we do instead

This comes up on almost every exterior project. Homeowners see gaps between boards and instinctively think: fill it with caulk. Makes sense — you'd caulk around a window, right?

With fiber cement siding, that's actually the wrong call.

What you're looking at in this photo are slip joints — the intentional gaps at the vertical seams where siding panels meet. They're not a defect. They're designed that way. Fiber cement expands and contracts with temperature and moisture, and those joints are what give the material room to move without cracking or buckling.

If you fill those joints with caulk, you're fighting the material. Eventually — sometimes within a single Seattle winter — the movement wins. The caulk splits, lifts, or pulls away from the surface. Now you've got a gap AND an adhesion failure, and water has a direct path behind the paint and into the wall.

The manufacturers themselves say to leave them open. The paint is applied right up to the edge of each joint, sealing the exposed substrate on both sides. That's where proper prep work earns its keep.

It's one of those things that feels counterintuitive until you understand why the siding is built the way it is. After 20+ years in this trade, I've painted over a lot of other people's caulk mistakes — and I'd rather just explain it upfront.

05/18/2026

Three things will kill an exterior paint job no matter how good the paint is: dirt, moisture, and chalking.

Most painters skip the prep. That's why their work doesn't last.
20+ years in the trade has taught me one thing — do it right the first time and you only do it once. Every Mr. Paint project comes with a real workmanship warranty. No fine print. No excuses.

Serving Seattle, Bellevue, Renton, Kirkland, Redmond, and the surrounding area.

05/16/2026

Twenty years of projects. Hundreds of homes. A lot of early mornings, a lot of careful prep work, and a lot of customers who trusted us to get it right.

We put together a few photos from across the years — different homes, different neighborhoods, different challenges. But the same standard on every single one.

That's what Mr. Paint is built on. Not the fastest bid. Not the flashiest pitch. Just good work, done right, backed by a warranty.
If you've got a project coming up — interior, exterior, cabinets, deck — we'd love to earn your trust too. Free estimates, no pressure.

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2721 SW Trenton Street
Seattle, WA
98126

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