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Painting in Plantation starts with a free written estimate that names the surfaces, the prep each one gets and the exact primer and finish paint by product and sheen — and on houses built between the 1950s and the 1980s, the prep line is the one that matters. Old paint that has chalked, metal window frames, wood fascia and decades of layered interior coatings all need different handling, and the written scope says which of them your house actually has.

Gold Hands Miami paints interiors and exteriors across both Plantation zip codes — 33317, covering part of the City of Plantation plus the adjacent Broadview Park area, and 33324 in central Plantation. Everything is written down before work starts: surfaces, patching, caulking, coats, and the products going on, along with what we are not touching. Call or text (786) 788-8714. Gold Hands carries insurance, and we hand off any job the law reserves for a licensed trade.

This is older Broward. The 33317 side leans toward modest single-family houses — ranch-style with Spanish Eclectic and minimal-traditional touches, mostly built from the 1950s through the 1970s on small to mid-sized lots, with small apartment buildings mixed in. Central Plantation in 33324 is a little later: single-family homes from the 1970s and 1980s including ranch and mid-century designs around Jacaranda, plus townhomes, villas and a number of golf-course and gated communities. Streets are quiet and tree-lined and nearly everything is ground level, which makes exterior work here far less of a logistics problem than it is in coastal Broward.

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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 1950s–1970s Plantation ranch: what the prep really is

Houses of this vintage in Plantation carry features that decide the whole job. Original jalousie and single-pane windows sit in metal frames that need cleaning, de-rusting where it has started and a primer made for metal before any topcoat — treat them like the stucco around them and the finish lifts within a season. Wood fascia and soffit on the older ranches want the failed film scraped back, the bare wood sealed and joints re-caulked before coating. And a house that has been standing sixty years through South Florida sun usually has a chalked exterior finish that has to be washed off entirely, because a new coat bonded to chalk is a new coat that peels in sheets.

Inside, the age shows in a different way. Interior walls in these homes often carry many layers of paint applied over decades, with patch repairs, texture that changes from room to room, and trim profiles from the original build. Where old and new layers meet at a failed edge, we sand it back to something sound and feather it rather than burying the ridge under fresh paint, because a ridge painted over is still a ridge. Terrazzo floors are common here and they get masked and protected properly — terrazzo is the original floor, it is not being replaced, and a splash on it is not a small thing.

Plantation and Broadview Park: two sets of rules inside one zip code

The 33317 zip is unusual because it straddles a municipal line. Part of it is the City of Plantation; immediately to its east, Broadview Park is an unincorporated pocket of Broward County rather than a city of its own. For an exterior repaint that distinction is the practical one — it decides which authority applies to any work attached to the painting, and it is worth being clear about which side of the line your address falls on before assuming a neighbour's experience matches yours. We will ask, rather than guess.

What Broadview Park does not have is a tower board or a village architectural committee looking over your shoulder. On most of these streets the exterior colour is the owner's decision, which is a genuine difference from the gated parts of Plantation a few minutes west. Where the small apartment buildings scattered through 33317 are concerned it flips again: there the owner or management company decides, we work to their schedule and around tenants, and the written scope has to be specific about which units and which common areas are included, because 'the building' means different things to a landlord and to a painter.

Jacaranda and central Plantation — approved colors and golf-course exteriors

Central Plantation in 33324 brings the association back into the picture. The golf-course communities, gated subdivisions and villa developments around Jacaranda commonly run exterior changes through an architectural review and ask a vendor for a certificate of insurance before work starts on site. Our written estimate is structured to go into that submission unaltered: elevations, trim, garage and entry doors, and product names and sheens listed, so a board reads the same document you approved. Send us the management contact when you book and the certificate goes over ahead of the day.

Villas and townhomes in this part of Plantation add a boundary question worth settling first. Where units share a wall or a continuous roofline, the association usually controls the outward-facing finish and the owner controls the interior and any enclosed private space — so a repaint that looks like one job to you may be two decisions to your board. Screened patios and enclosures are the frequent grey area. We will say which parts of your property we can coat and which need a board's answer before you choose a colour, rather than finding out halfway through the week.

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Interior & Exterior Painting in Plantation — questions we get asked

How do I get a painting quote for my Plantation home?

We look at the house — in person or from your photos — and send a written estimate before you commit. It lists each surface, the prep that surface gets, the number of coats, and the primer and finish paint by product name and sheen. On older Plantation homes it also calls out the specific items that change the work: metal window frames, wood fascia, chalked exterior finish, terrazzo that needs protecting. No charge for it, and nothing to sign. Call or text (786) 788-8714.

Can I trust the painters coming into my Plantation house?

Verify it rather than assume it. Gold Hands is insured and provides the certificate on request, and you get the names of the crew scheduled for your address in advance. We protect floors and fixtures before anything is opened, work one room or one elevation at a time so you keep the rest of the house, and clean up at the end of each day. If we damage something, you hear about it from us that day.

My HOA has to approve the exterior color and wants proof of insurance. Can you handle it?

Yes. In the gated and golf-course communities of central Plantation this is routine. The written estimate is built to be submitted as-is, with elevations, trim, doors and product names spelled out, and we send the certificate of insurance to your management company before the visit. If the community sets work hours or a gate check-in procedure, tell us and we schedule around them instead of turning up and negotiating.

My Plantation house still has the original jalousie windows. Do they get painted?

They can be, but not the way the walls are. Jalousie and older single-pane units sit in metal frames, so they need the surface cleaned, any corrosion dealt with and a primer intended for metal before a topcoat — otherwise the finish fails quickly. The glass louvres themselves are masked, and operating hardware is protected so the window still works when we leave. The estimate says specifically whether your window frames are included, because on a house of this era that is a real chunk of the job rather than a detail.

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