Home/Painting
Interior and exterior painting, with the preparation that makes it last. Southwest Oklahoma sun is hard on paint, and shortcuts show within a season.
Preparation
Paint fails where the surface underneath was never fixed. Chalked siding, open caulk joints, nail holes, a patch of bare wood on the south elevation: cover any of those and the new coat lifts inside a year.
John scrapes, sands, patches and caulks before he opens a tin. On exteriors that means washing the chalk off first and priming any wood that has gone bare. On interiors it means filling and sanding the walls rather than rolling over them.

Painted interiors




Exteriors
Plenty of Lawton houses need the roof and the paint in the same season. Doing both with one contractor saves you a second mobilisation and stops the argument about who scuffed the fresh trim with a ladder.
If the roof is going on too, John schedules it first and paints after, so the finished coat is the last thing that happens to the house.

Questions
The estimate spells out the scraping, filling and priming, because that is the part that decides how long the coat lasts.