How fast can you paint an empty house?

Much faster than the same house furnished — that's the entire point of the window. With nothing to move, mask around, or sequence, we spray and backroll whole interiors in continuous passes, and a typical single-family interior that would take a careful week or more occupied comes together in a fraction of that time empty. The honest answer for your house depends on square footage, repairs, and how dramatic the color changes are, and you'll have a real schedule — not a guess — with your written quote after the walkthrough.

Can you start the day after closing?

Yes, and that's how we prefer to run it — it's why we plan off your escrow date from the first call. Tell us your expected closing when you go under contract; we hold crew time against it, keep slack for the date slips escrows love to produce, and confirm as your funding date firms up. With the walkthrough and quote done during your escrow (on video if needed), the crew can be masking floors the morning after you get keys.

Can we pick colors before we even own the house?

Absolutely — your inspection and final walkthrough are legitimate planning opportunities, and we use them. Walk us through on video during either one and we'll scope the project and talk colors room by room in the house's actual light, before you have keys. Buyers relocating from out of state do the entire process this way. By closing day the colors are settled, the written quote is signed, and the schedule is already running.

The previous owners smoked (or had pets). Can you get rid of the smell?

This is core work for us, and the honest mechanics matter: smoke, nicotine, and pet odors soak into painted surfaces over years, and fresh paint alone will not hold them back — they bleed through new color within weeks. The fix is stain-blocking, odor-sealing primer: a purpose-built coating that locks those residues permanently under the film before the finish coats go on. At the walkthrough we identify which rooms need it and build it into the one flat written quote, so the house's history stays sealed in the walls where it belongs.

Why spray instead of roll — does it actually matter?

In an empty house, meaningfully. Spraying lays paint on in a uniform film with no lap marks or roller stipple variation, and backrolling then works that film into the wall texture for an even, consistent finish across every surface — including the tall entry and stairwell walls that are hardest to do well by hand. Rolling is the right tool in a furnished, occupied home, which is exactly why the empty window is worth guarding: it's the one time your house can have the sprayed finish. Either way, every color change gets two full coats of Sherwin-Williams.

Do you coordinate with our agent and the escrow timeline?

Yes — the escrow calendar is the spine of our schedule, and we're comfortable living on it. We're happy to coordinate walkthrough access through your agent during the inspection period, plan around your contingency and funding dates, and adjust when the closing slips (they do, and we build slack in from the start). Your agent gets a painting crew that makes their buyer's move-in effortless; you get a house that's finished before the truck arrives.

Can you do the interior and exterior in the same window?

Often, yes, and it's the ideal time — one crew, one plan, one flat written quote, with exterior prep opening the project, the interior spray running in the middle, and exterior finish coats closing it out. Whether it fits depends on the scope and how many days your window gives us, and we'll tell you honestly at the walkthrough. See our whole-home interior and exterior page for how the sequencing works.

We've already moved some boxes in. Is the window gone?

No — boxes are easy; furniture is what changes the job. A garage full of boxes, or a stack in one room, just gets that area masked or worked around, and the rest of the house still paints like an empty one. Even partially furnished, painting before you're living there full-time is still faster and cleaner than a fully occupied repaint. Call with the real state of the house and we'll plan around exactly what's in it.

The house is a new build. Does builder paint really need repainting?

Usually sooner than buyers expect. Production builders typically deliver interiors in a single thin coat of flat builder-grade paint — chosen for speed and touch-up during construction, not for living against. It marks easily, wipes poorly, and its touch-ups rarely match. Repainting in the move-in window replaces it with a real two-coat finish in colors you actually chose, and it's dramatically easier now than after the furniture arrives. If some rooms genuinely don't need it, we'll say so at the walkthrough.

How many coats do you apply?

Every color change gets two full coats of Sherwin-Williams paint — no exceptions, and spraying never changes it. One coat over an existing color, especially over the tans and greiges most resale homes are wearing, leaves the old tone ghosting through and reads muddy in daylight. Two coats is what true coverage takes, and it's quoted that way in your one flat written number from the start.

Have a question that isn't covered here? Call (725) 999-0345 or send us your project details and we'll give you a straight answer.

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