Tex cote paint..need opinions

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TEX?COTE? COOLWALL

I'm looking for some thoughts and opinions on this product for my residential home which needs to be repainted and has siding etcetera that needs to go or be fixed.

They just did a huge demo in my garage and power point presentation and I'll have to admit if I wasn't into auto detailing I would have told these guys to take a hike but this product seems legitimate. Granted I have been wrong before so I figured I would ask anyone on here if they've ever heard of this.

I'm pretty young (32) and just bought this house so the idea of never having to mess with painting it again is appealing...but I am weary to pull the trigger.

 

[Stokdgs]

Brandt -
Ask them to give you the addresses of people in your neighborhood that have had this done over 1 year go..
You want to go see the application on their houses and talk to the owners..

See what they tell you...
Dan F

 

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The company is 55 years old so they are certainly established. I would say the work quality of the franchise doing it locally would be the big factor. When I lived in Cedar Park I would liked to have known about this.

 

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Brandt -
Ask them to give you the addresses of people in your neighborhood that have had this done over 1 year go..
You want to go see the application on their houses and talk to the owners..

See what they tell you...
Dan F

No one in the neighborhood has got this done he gave me a few references in Austin no one has had this on their house more than a year it's quite a new thing in the area. As a side note in Texas I don't believe you have to have a contractors license not that that makes anything different here.

They actually worked me out a "deal" 45% lower than what they initially said was their lowest price when I mentioned that I cook cars and if they essentially are coding my house this might be something I wouldn't be opposed to marketing for them, and they were very receptive to that idea.

My main thing is, as embarrassing as it is to admit, I would rather pay someone to do my exterior house maintenance painting etc work than do it myself just because I work at a job and a side job and the girlfriend's already mad at me for not having enough "free time"...yada yada yada

I talked to two people that have had it done and they swore by it but they also could have been given a deal in lieu of a testimonial if needed so I take that with a grain of salt. They showed me many pictures of corporate businesses they have done like lowes and other large buildings.

And here's the other thing. I don't think I'll live in this house for more than another 10 to 15 years so I'm not too sure if it's really worth investing this much money in something like that assuming it was legitimately going to last that long.

Damn being a homeowner sucks its tough.haha

 

[Stokdgs]

Brandt,
I agree, that being a homeowner has a lot of things that come with it - and they never end..

If you go do that and agree to being kind of an open-house to their future customers, will you guys be ok with that too ?

This little house that I was so lucky to get recently came with its own set of challenges, and the first one I tackled, was getting adequate insulation blown into the attic, and this alone really made a difference in the house the day it was completed..

The house was 1 temp in the front and another temp in the back and of course, getting the insulation up there all even and up to R39 really changed the temps to about all one even temp throughout..

Then I had them go get me a really nice ceiling pull down aluminum step ladder from Home Depot and install it in the ceiling in the garage, and then blow insulation up there to R-39 specs..

This has really made a huge difference going from no insulation to lots of it in the garage!
The temp in there now is really nice and even, and before when I moved in, it was about as cold as outside, and since the installation, it's more even temps like the inside of the house!

I am at this moment up in the garage attic putting down 19/32's OSB flooring across the joists so I can utilize all that space for storage for the house and the garage stuff and it's going to be great!

The total cost of all this insulation work, the attic pull down ladder, and the flooring and screws I purchased is around $17-$1,800.00...
I may be able to get a rebate on the insulation from the Utility here too... I need to check that part out... Some Utilities offer rebates on stuff like that..

So perhaps, start there and see what you have up in your attic, see if there is anything at all in the garage and I promise you, just getting that done right will make a difference...

I think you can even go to R-44 specs now and that would be better still..
Good luck!
Dan F

 

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The demo would just be outside viewing and a sign posted, a testemonial and posting on social media.


Wow you lost me st R39, Dan. I talked to my brother, best friend, and my dad and decided this is not for me. If i had more money, yes I'd do it but i plan on paying off this house quicker than the mortgage says and renting it out once property value swells up more in the next decade or two. I do happen to live in the fastest growing area in the nation for the last few years I believe.
When i get my custom built house at 45 or 50 years old i will look these guys up and if they're still around, I'll play their game again.
I think i can get the house exterior fixed/painted, my bad half of the fence (my house sits on a 1/2 or 3/4 acre lot and is only 1300sq ft so its a big fence) and a small RO system feeding a deionized water filtration setup in the garage for the same price these guys are charging for the cote paint, which i fundamentally/scientifically agree with, im just weary of the people doing it and its lack of longitudinal study ability at this time.
As a researcher by education, i cant take a convience sample and expect that to hold external validity.

 

[Stokdgs]

Brandt -
See if the local Utility for gas and/or electricity will come by and perform an Energy Audit of your house..
If they do look at everything including the attic, they should be able to tell you what the Insulation Rating is up there now...

Chances are, unless the previous owner upgraded or brought the insulation up to the current specifications, it's going to be lower than the basic standard of the year that house was built....

So, just getting more insulation blown up there to cover about every square inch, I promise you, will make a huge improvement in the house alone...

And of course if you do the garage, it will make that garage temp very close to the house temp inside if it's an attached garage...

The additional insulation will keep the heat out in the summer, and keep your cold A/C air in the house longer..

In the winter, the additional insulation will keep your furnace heat in the house longer and keep that cold air in the attic from getting into your house better...

It's always a win-win, and its not all that expensive - surely way less than painting the exterior...

Too bad we are not neighbors - I would gladly bring over my Binks Airless and you could help me prepare and tape up the house and we could shoot that bad boy easily in 1 day with lots of time left over to do the trim work...

Glad you made a decision - I think it's the right one - especially if you are not going to be there for the rest of your life...
Who knows - going forward with the technology, there might be a better paint coating developed by the time you want to look at this again..
Dan F

 

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Brandt -
See if the local Utility for gas and/or electricity will come by and perform an Energy Audit of your house..
If they do look at everything including the attic, they should be able to tell you what the Insulation Rating is up there now...

Chances are, unless the previous owner upgraded or brought the insulation up to the current specifications, it's going to be lower than the basic standard of the year that house was built....

So, just getting more insulation blown up there to cover about every square inch, I promise you, will make a huge improvement in the house alone...

And of course if you do the garage, it will make that garage temp very close to the house temp inside if it's an attached garage...

The additional insulation will keep the heat out in the summer, and keep your cold A/C air in the house longer..

In the winter, the additional insulation will keep your furnace heat in the house longer and keep that cold air in the attic from getting into your house better...

It's always a win-win, and its not all that expensive - surely way less than painting the exterior...

Too bad we are not neighbors - I would gladly bring over my Binks Airless and you could help me prepare and tape up the house and we could shoot that bad boy easily in 1 day with lots of time left over to do the trim work...

Glad you made a decision - I think it's the right one - especially if you are not going to be there for the rest of your life...
Who knows - going forward with the technology, there might be a better paint coating developed by the time you want to look at this again..
Dan F

Thanks for the advice. thats a great idea.

im fixing to call these guys back to thank them for their time and let that be the end of it.

It just cracks me up they were coming down 41% from their original price, lol.
Final price would have been 7.6% of the last yrs appraised value on my home. Or enough money to almost pay off my srt and frontier together. I just don't need a high tech paint job like that.

I'm very glad i don't have a lot of money because i probably would have bought it. But then again if i had a lot of money i wouldn't be living in this house anyways, lol.

Too bad you cant buy just the fancy paint material they sell.

knowing me i will probably try to put some black label or crystal seal on the new painted area in a small section once i get normal paint put on.

I was already thinking when i get my rain gutters i have a use for that bottle of crystal seal i cant seem to figure out how to apply to my truck properly .

 

[Stokdgs]

Brandt -

Good job - you made the right decision...

Speaking of house prices in your neck of the woods and in my old neck of the woods - San Antonio, I really Tried to buy a house there over the past few years, but in S.A. the listed asking price on most houses is just where the Buyer has to add $15k to get into the Bidding War... No kidding...

And then, the bidding goes up several $thousand more and you might get to buy that house...

Then the property taxes there are way, way, out of control - even compared to California... If you live in a nice neighborhood, its going to cost a lot more for the privilege of living there...

This is just too nutty for me, I could not - imagine - afford to live in S.A. unless I wanted to buy a really run down house in a crack neighborhood, etc...

So, I came back out to Northern California where I found a really nice house in a really nice neighborhood and I can actually afford it...

If you want to get a chop saw, a small table saw, or a good electric hand saw, some good screws and a Milwaukee gun, you can fix all that fencing yourself and probably save a lot of money..

Hardest thing to do is dig out a rotted fence post, put a new one in there and pour in new concrete...
Dan F