How Long Does it Take to Paint a Wood Window?

Well it's all going to depend on the size and thewindows, was unbelievable.
design of the wood window, but you can plan onKeep something in mind here, I could paint the entire
spending quite a bit of time, painting these intricatehouse in about 12 hours, but it would take me about
architectural items.the same amount of time, just to paint the exterior
Let me give you an idea, I had to paint 7 woodof these windows and more than half of them
windows, one time and these didn't have anywouldn't open, because they were previously painted
architectural details to them, they were simply plainshut.
old wood windows. The type of windows that wereIf the wood window has any sort of architectural
installed through out the 1950s and would need to bedetail, or any grids or divided lites, you could plan on
replaced or repaired, in the near future.spending quite a bit of time, painting each window. If
You're going to find this hard to believe, but I usedyou've never painted a wood window before, plan on
to paint the outside of the house, a small house, forspending at the least four to six hours, for window
$300, and a homeowner would supply me with thesmaller than 3' x 3' and plan on spending at least eight
paint. I had to buy the rest of the materials, but Ito 12 hours, or more, for larger wood windows.
could paint the exterior of these small homes, inIf you're a contractor, who's going to be bidding a
about a day and a half.job, you might want to contact a professional painter
Except for the wood windows, this was a totallyor at least get someone else's opinion, before signing
different story and I wouldn't paint the woodthe contract.
windows each time I painted the house. I wouldIf you're a homeowner, and you hire a professional
often touch the windows up, but the amount of timepainter and they gives you a ridiculous bit, now you
that it would usually take me to paint theseknow why.