10. Paint House. With an assistant, paint the house with the backrolling method. After fully suiting up with personal protection gear, one person should spray a section of the house about 4-by-4 feet.

He has seen owners of a large, 12-year-old brick house in the $1.3 million price range spend $15,000 to $20,000 to replace the rotted wood exterior trim with “nearly foolproof” plastic trim to ...