House Painters in Bloomington, MN

Why a Split-Level Costs More Than Its Square Footage Says

Bloomington went from farmland to one of the metro's largest cities in about a decade — the population moved from under ten thousand to over fifty thousand through the 1950s — and most of its residential building ran from the mid-1950s into the late 1970s. Ramblers, split-levels and split-entries dominate, and the split is the house that defines the market.

Two Halves, Two Kinds of Project

It is worth being blunt about this, because a quote that treats the city as one thing is a quote that has not looked.

Serving Bloomington's Established Streets

Durahome serves the whole city — the mature east-side neighborhoods around Oak Grove and Penn Lake, the streets north toward the Minnesota River bluff, the Normandale and Nine Mile Creek areas, and the newer, larger homes out west toward the Hyland reserve. Nearly every Bloomington neighborhood shares one useful trait: the houses on a given street tend to have been built within a few years of each other. That means they age together, and it means a street reaching its repaint window tends to reach it all at once. If your neighbor's exterior looks tired, yours is probably on the same clock — and if you are wondering whether it is time yet, the walkthrough answers that for free.

When Bloomington Books Its Exterior Work

Exterior painting here runs roughly May through early October, and St. Paul fills earlier than most of the metro for one specific reason: the houses take longer. A detailed facade is a week rather than three days, so a crew's season holds fewer St. Paul projects than it holds suburban ones, and the good slots go early.

Working This Metro Every Week