Coatings on Bahama's early store and farmhouse frame buildings
The buildings that anchored early Bahama — the A.W. Tilley and Turner and Hill stores, the graded school, homes near the Tilley Brothers' Roller Mill — were wood-frame construction typical of a small early-1900s Piedmont rail community, and many of those structures are still standing. Layers of paint applied over more than a century on that older wood siding usually need to be scraped back to bare wood in test areas before a new coating goes on.
Sun, humidity, and Piedmont summers
Durham County summers push into the high 80s with humidity that regularly climbs above 70%, conditions that are hard on exterior coatings anywhere but especially on Bahama's older frame buildings with limited shade compared to Durham's denser in-town lots. Painting timed around that humidity, rather than around convenience, holds up better on both old and new siding.
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Information that helps a Bahama paint estimate
Describe the siding material, approximate age of the structure, and any visible paint failure such as peeling or bare wood.