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Hillsborough homes mostly went up around 2013, which puts a lot of original builder paint at roughly a dozen years of Florida sun. If your cottage or designer home is starting to look chalky on the sunny walls, this is the window for a careful first repaint.
Hillsborough is a District 10 village in Sumter County, set between Brownwood Paddock Square and Lake Sumter Landing. Rental listings describe Brownwood as roughly a five-minute golf cart ride away, so it is one of the villages most closely tied to the Brownwood side of The Villages.
Real-estate data puts the median build year at about 2013, and the housing mix leans toward cottage homes and designer homes. That makes Hillsborough a fairly uniform neighborhood in age, which matters when you are deciding what your exterior needs.
Homes listed for sale here often advertise their original 2013 roofs, water heaters and air handlers. The paint is usually just as original, and it ages on the same clock.
South and west elevations take the most UV. We compare them to the shaded side during the estimate so you can see how far the color has drifted.
Ten-plus summers of heating and cooling leave fine cracks near windows and at corners. We fill and prime them first so the new coat does not just paint over the problem.
Original caulk around trim, doors and fixtures tends to shrink and split by now. Full re-caulking is part of our standard prep, not an add-on.
After washing and repairs, two full coats go on every painted surface, cottage or designer home alike.
District 10 runs its own architectural review, and Hillsborough is part of it. If your new coat matches the builder color, or comes off the palette District 10 uses today, you can typically skip the approval step. Stepping outside those choices is what triggers a review.
Owners do not always have the 2013 paint codes on file, so we help track yours down and match it.
Want a fresh look? That request goes to the district’s Community Standards office, reachable at (352) 751-3912, and we can sit down with you and complete it.
Every joint re-caulked and edge taped, two coats applied, and nothing owed until the foreman has toured it with you.
Short answers on timing, approval and inside work.
Ask us. If it can wait another year, we will say so.
(352) 626-8007Quite possibly. Florida sun and rain break exterior paint down, and many homes from this era are now on their original coat. The honest answer depends on your walls, so we look at them for free and tell you if it can wait.
Usually not. A same-color repaint, or a switch to a shade on today’s District 10 palette, normally goes ahead without a review. Because district policies get updated, we double-check the rule that applies to your street before the crew arrives.
Yes. Both styles are common in Hillsborough, and the prep is the same careful process: wash, repair cracks, re-caulk, tape and two coats.
Yes. If paint we applied peels or chips within 7 years, inside or out, it is covered. About twelve months after we finish, expect a check-in call from us.
Hillsborough sits among several District 10 villages; here are a few, along with the work homes reaching their first repaint tend to need.
We put the price in writing on the day we visit, at no charge. You pay nothing until the foreman has walked the finished work with you and you are satisfied.