Painting The House (continued)

For the past 2 months the house painters have been prepping the house for painting (the name of the painting company is Victorian Restoration). This mostly involved stripping the architectural detail with heat guns, sanding the flat areas and scraping the old dripped paint from the bottom edge of the siding. It's a pretty laborious job for 3-4 painters on a house that is about 40 feet tall (3 stories). Last week they started priming and patching the house; this week they started by spraying on the first of two coats of paint, after which they used caulk in all of the joints. The picture below shows part of the front of the house (where the scafolding hasn't been erected yet) that hasn't been touched yet. What a difference!