House painters in Lenexa, KS

The city’s original town site, Old Town Lenexa, is along Santa Fe Trail Drive and Pflumm Road. The City of Lenexa notes that some of the homes and churches around that core are more than a hundred years old. Nearby neighborhoods filled in later; Four Colonies, for example, was created in 1971.

As Lenexa expanded west toward Prairie Star Parkway and Highway 7, later neighborhoods such as Falcon Valley and Canyon Creek were built. The paint and wood still take the same summers and winters; they just haven’t taken as many of them yet.

U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey estimates for 2020–2024 put the median Lenexa home at 1992. About 4 percent of the city’s houses were built before 1960, 25 percent from 1960 to 1979, 32 percent from 1980 to 1999, and 40 percent in 2000 or later. Nearly three in ten Lenexa homes have already been through more than forty Kansas summers and winters.

What that weather does to paint and wood.

Nearby official climate normals (NOAA, 1991–2020, at the Olathe 3E station a few miles south of Lenexa) describe a year that runs from January nights around 20°F to July afternoons around 88°F, with about 41 inches of precipitation and about 14 inches of snow. A normal year has about 34 days at 90°F or hotter and about 98 nights at or below freezing.

That swing is hard on a house. Summer sun and storms bake and soak the siding. Then freeze-thaw works moisture into cracked caulk and bare wood. Trim, fascia, and window casings are usually the first to show it. Before we paint, we scrape, then prime every trim board and every deep groove — the primer is all rolled on so it works into the surface — and we caulk every window, door, siding seam, nail hole, and trim board. If the wood is already soft, our team pulls off the rotted boards and replaces them, then primes and paints so the new finish isn’t sitting on damaged wood.