Fort Lauderdale Painters — Interior & Exterior Work

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Painting work in Fort Lauderdale is quoted with a free written estimate that names each elevation or room, the preparation that particular surface needs, the primer and topcoat by product and sheen, and the number of coats. On a 1920s house in Sailboat Bend and a 1960s canal home in Coral Ridge that document reads completely differently, which is the point of writing it rather than quoting a day rate.

Gold Hands works insured across Broward. Send photographs and the address to (786) 788-8714 and you get an estimate at no cost that puts the whole job on paper: surfaces measured, scraping, filling, sanding and caulking listed where each is needed, the primer chosen for the substrate actually in front of us, the finish product and sheen for siding, stucco, wood trim, ceilings and doors, and a clear statement of what is excluded.

Nine zip codes of Fort Lauderdale reach from the barrier island to Cypress Creek, and the buildings under the paint change every few blocks. Victoria Park and Colee Hammock hold single-family homes from the 1920s through the 1950s, Mediterranean Revival houses, cottages and mid-century ranches on canal-lined streets. Sailboat Bend is the city's oldest neighborhood and its only designated historic district. Coral Ridge, Bermuda Riviera and Bayview run waterfront lots with private docks onto the Intracoastal. Downtown and the Las Olas corridor are high-rise towers. Melrose Park, Riverland, the Sistrunk corridor and the blocks near Cypress Creek are mid-century concrete-block houses, some with additions from every decade since.

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Every job gets a free written estimate with the scope, prep and materials named — not a vague day rate. Gold Hands Miami is insured. Work that legally requires a licensed trade is referred to a licensed pro.

Painting a historic Fort Lauderdale house in Sailboat Bend or Colee Hammock

Sailboat Bend is the only designated historic district in Fort Lauderdale, a run of small one-story Bungalow, Mission and Mediterranean Revival houses from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and exterior changes there can involve review before work begins. We treat the color as a decision that is made and documented before a brush is loaded, not one taken on the day, and the estimate carries the manufacturer and the color reference so it can go with whatever the review asks for. Nearby Colee Hammock and the older streets of Victoria Park are not under the same rules but hold the same kind of house, and the approach is the same.

The substrate is the reason these jobs need writing down. Houses of that age carry original wood, plaster and details that reward careful repair rather than replacement, and many carry eight decades of coatings on top. Failing paint has to come off before new paint goes on, sound paint does not, and knowing which is which across one elevation is most of the work. Rotted or split wood trim gets repaired or replaced as a named line rather than filled and hidden. Where anything reaches into work that legally requires a licensed trade, it goes to a licensed pro.

Salt air on the canal side of a Fort Lauderdale waterfront home

In Coral Ridge, Bermuda Riviera, Bayview and along the New River in Riverland, the water side of a house ages at a different rate to the street side. Salt-bearing air and constant humidity off the Intracoastal and the canals attack hardware, fasteners, railings, light fixtures and exterior finishes, so the dock-facing elevation is often chalking, blistering or showing rust bleed while the front of the same house still looks presentable. We inspect and quote elevations separately for that reason, and we say when the honest answer is that only one or two of them need doing now.

Metal is treated as its own line item here. Railings, brackets, window surrounds and exterior light fittings need corrosion removed and the right primer under the topcoat, because paint laid over active rust on a waterfront lot lifts within a season and takes the wall coating with it. Timing matters too: South Florida's rainy season runs May through October with storms building most afternoons, so exterior work on the water gets scheduled for mornings and dry runs, and we would rather move a day than put a coat on ahead of a downpour.

Downtown Fort Lauderdale towers and the mid-century blocks inland

In the 33301 towers along Las Olas and downtown, the exterior is not the owner's to paint. Building management maintains the envelope, the corridors and usually the balconies, and expects a vendor certificate of insurance, a booked service elevator and loading dock window and work confined to permitted hours before a contractor touches anything inside. Our job in those buildings is the interior of the unit, quoted room by room, with the access arrangements written into the estimate so the management office has what it needs before we arrive.

West and north the picture flips entirely. Melrose Park and Riverland in 33312, the Sistrunk corridor and Washington Park in 33311, and the established streets near Cypress Creek in 33309 are largely single-family concrete-block houses from the 1950s through the 1970s, many with terrazzo floors, original wiring behind the walls and additions built at different times. On a house like that a repaint has to reconcile several eras of stucco texture and several old color schemes on one elevation, and infill construction on formerly vacant lots means a brand-new house may sit next door to one that has never been fully repainted. The estimate names each section and says how it will be prepared.

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Interior & Exterior Painting in Fort Lauderdale — questions we get asked

How does a painting estimate work in Fort Lauderdale?

It is free and it is a document. We walk the property or work from clear photographs, then send an estimate listing every elevation or room, the preparation each surface gets, the primer and topcoat by product name and sheen, the coat count, how furniture and landscaping are protected, and the exclusions. Elevations are separated so you can see what genuinely needs doing now. Call or text (786) 788-8714.

Can I trust the crew coming into my Fort Lauderdale home?

Judge us on what you can check. Gold Hands is insured and the certificate goes to you, and to your building or association if there is one. You know who is arriving before the day, and interior work runs one room at a time with floors, fixtures and furniture covered. If we open up a surface and find rot, damp or an old repair underneath, you get told and shown that day, before we paint over it.

My condo association wants a certificate of insurance and approval before any work. Can you handle that?

Yes. Give us the building name and the management contact at booking. We send the certificate of insurance to the office, request the service elevator and loading dock window where materials have to come up, and keep preparation inside the hours the building permits. For historic-district and association color approvals we put the exact manufacturer and color reference on the estimate so it can be submitted as it stands, and we wait for the approval before starting.

The canal side of our house is peeling but the front looks fine. Do we have to paint the whole house?

Not necessarily, and we will say so in writing. On Fort Lauderdale waterfront homes the water-facing elevation commonly fails years ahead of the others, and painting only what has failed is a legitimate choice as long as you accept the sheen and color will read slightly newer on that side until the rest catches up. The estimate prices each elevation separately so the decision is yours with the surfaces listed, not guessed at.

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Need interior & exterior painting in Fort Lauderdale?

Send photographs of the job to (786) 788-8714 and a written quote comes back naming the scope and the materials. The quote costs nothing, and nothing reaches the invoice that was not on it.

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