A board-and-batten house on a wooded lot, recoated in sage green with white window trim. The photographs are two days apart: ladders against the gable with the lower half already done, then the same elevation finished.
Board-and-batten is more surface than it looks. Every batten has two edges and a top, the boards behind them have their own grain to fill, and none of it can be rolled in one pass. That is why a wall that reads as plain from the driveway takes longer than a smooth one twice its size.
Working over a timber structure
The lower part of this elevation sits over a covered timber deck, so the ladders stood on the deck roof rather than on the ground. That is a setup question before it is a painting one: what will carry a ladder, where the feet go, and how the gable gets reached without leaning off the top of one.
Trees are the other half of it. A wooded lot keeps a wall damp for longer after rain and drops sap and needles on a wet coat, so the work follows the dry windows rather than the calendar.
What to expect if you want this
Tell us at the estimate what is under the elevation: a deck, a porch roof, planting you care about. Access is what decides how long an exterior takes far more often than the paintable area does.
