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Blanchette specializes in painting exterior sidings (brick, aluminum, stucco, aggregate, acrylic, fiber cement, engineered wood, and wood), doors and frames (vinyl, PVC and wood), gutters (including aluminum soffits and fascias), and roofs (metal and asphalt shingles).

Blanchette is a franchise concept exclusively specialized in residential exterior painting with a spray gun. Our mission is to offer homeowners of single-family homes an exterior painting service that offers results comparable to the replacement of materials for a fraction of the cost. We aim for higher quality standards than traditional painters because our customers do business with us to get a result equivalent to that of new materials.

One of the advantages of Blanchette as a franchise concept is the uniform structure of our work methods. Our employees are well-trained to acquire specific expertise. For example, one team specializes in masking and protecting surfaces, while another team is trained in spray gun application and another in surface preparation. All work is supervised and coordinated by your franchisee, who ensures quality that exceeds your expectations.

You can paint your house yourself, but we have often seen situations where we had to redo the work done by homeowners. Exterior painting is a very technical field, where one mistake can result in unsatisfactory results. The choice of product, proper preparation, and application technique are essential factors. Our customers pay us for our expertise, know-how, and long term result.

When you hire our painting services for your doors and windows, we are committed to providing you with a quality job. To ensure durability and aesthetics of our work, we have put in place an efficient caulk method. This method involves dismantling the old silicone before applying a new layer at the end of the job to seal the paint optimally. Thus, you can be assured that your doors and windows will remain in good condition and offer quality aesthetics for a long time.

We can stain or paint wood, but it often requires additional sanding for satisfactory adhesion and durability. However, paints and stains on wood surfaces are not as durable as on materials such as vinyl or brick. That is why our warranty for wood is not 15 years.

Our teams are trained for the application of stain on wood sidings. Our gun-applied staining and brush-leveled technique allows for uniform and deep application of our wood stains.

To ensure a uniform finish, our painters always apply two coats of paint. Although using a paint gun may allow for the application of only one layer, our customers hire us to get an outstanding result and durability of the surfaces to be painted. That’s why our painters follow a uniform process for each project to minimize the risk of losing quality.

Once the preparation of washing is done, the work usually takes one day. However, in the case of a complete transformation of your home, this deadline may be extended. However, be assured, all our sites are completed in a maximum of a few days.

The masking of surfaces is the most important part of our exterior painting work. Our painters are adequately trained and use the right tools to protect the surfaces. Before applying the paint, the team leader always carefully checks each masking and makes corrections if needed. Furthermore, the paint sprayers we use are specifically designed for exterior work, which greatly reduces the risk of paint particles being diverted from the surfaces to be painted by wind.

As specialists in exterior painting and surface preparation, even if a surface shows signs of peeling, we are able to properly prepare it to get the best result possible. However, as an already painted exterior surface (other than in a factory) presents an increased risk of peeling in the future, we cannot offer as solid a guarantee as the 15-year warranty for only factory-painted materials.

Yes, our exterior painting service is very complete. We can change the color of your roof with our 200% elastomeric coating applied with a gun. The advantage of our roof painting service is not only to avoid changing your roof when it is in good condition and only the color bothers you, but also to increase its lifespan.

We can apply our coatings as soon as the temperature is above 1 degree Celsius. In general, our season starts in early April and ends in late October.

Once our bid is accepted, we agree on the schedules with you. The first visit consists of cleaning the surfaces to be painted. A few days later, our masking and preparation team takes care of protecting, sanding and dismantling the surfaces. Then, our spray specialist takes care of applying the paint before cleaning the site. We end with a final site inspection with you to make sure you are completely satisfied.