How long would you expect paintwork to last on exterior of house?

[bigbluebus]

Last time the outside of our house was painted it was done by a professional painter and decorator. I deliberately won't say when it was done as I'm after opinion as to how long it should generally last before it needs re-doing.
Some of the paintwork has started to peel on a couple of windows and the back door needs completely sanding and repainting. Also the 3 wooden door thresholds which were painted with wood stain are all in a bad state. The painter came highly recommended to us by another trusted tradesman but we can't remember paint work needing to be done again so soon in the years we've been living here. So my question is, how often would you expect exterior woodwork to need painting? (The flaking paint is on 3 sides of the house so not all South/North facing).

We bought a house with mock Tudor bits, wooden doors etc which was all freshly painted at purchase and we never had it redone. We moved out ten years later, at which point it very definitely needed redoing and looked tatty (especially the wood stain, the gloss wasn’t too bad), but the whole house was going to be significantly altered and extended at that point anyway so we hadn’t done it for the sale. So maybe 5-8 years? Depends a lot what products were used, weather etc.

I bought my painted house 14 years ago, and repainted 3 years ago purely because i wanted to change the colour. Front door is still good but i repainted the back door last Summer purely because the sun had faded the colour.
No peeling paint anywhere in those 11 years and i'm on an exposed hill in wet Wales!

Our house was paintes 7 years ago and it definitely needs a re-do, but, only because we picked a pastel colour which has faded. The actual finish still looks great.

If the wood is exposed to weather some of it might need doing again after 5 years. It also depends where you are - damp climate... If it is the outside walls of the house they should be ok for 15 years.

I think 7 years, unless by the sea where it goes down to 4 or 5 years

We think it's going to be every 5 years on ours, rural location and exposed to the elements.

I paint my own, and realistically for a decent look, needs doing on exposed areas every 3 years.

I can get away with it for longer, but then regardless it needs doing sooner.

My south facing windows bake and flake quicker, and the north areas get damper so peel a bit quicker. The flat ledges of the windows weather quickly, whilst the sheltered eaves boards will last much longer (good as top of a ladder not so much fun to paint!!)

I use good quality paint, but I am in the SE, house is reasonably exposed to the elements and protests the fact!

I had a really good decorator for my first 20 years in this house - good quality paint, really rubbed down, filling etc, undercoat, 2 lots of gloss. The outside (and I have corners that are very vulnerable to sun, exposure etc) mostly last 6-8 years. Wooden frames, sills and doors.

I had the job done 2 years ago - new decorator. Recommended locally by lots of people including friends and neighbours who own £1mill+ homes. I knew I had issues on Day 1, when having discussed how important the prep was, he looked blank. It needed doing so I let him complete the job. The final bill was 1/3 of my old decorators last invoice. But it needs doing again - not everywhere but enough places. I am still fucked off about it. I am SE.

We had our house painted five years ago and have just had it done again.

whats the paint used? many of them have guarantees on the front saying how long they should last......IF the prep work was done correctly

Interesting responses, thank you. The paintwork was last done 3 1/2 years ago so we didn't think it had lasted that well. We have been in this house nearly 30 years (from new) and during that time the woodwork has been painted 3 times by professional painter/decorators and once by DH. We are about as far away from the sea as you can get and not in a particularly exposed spot - we are surrounded by other houses- and paint is flaking on the north, south and west facing surfaces. (Only a gable end on east facing wall which I haven't checked out yet). Have sanded down and repainted the worst of it ourselves today (undercoat) but don't think we'll bother using that same painter in the future. Either his prep work was poor or he used cheap paint!

I do think alot bears on the quality of the paint being used too though, buy cheap buy twice as they say.

We were told about 8 years by our original builder and he was exactly right. But we left it 14 years by which time it looked appalling and cost a fortune to repaint. I told the new decorators it needed to last 8 years and i really hope it does. Never buying a house that needs exterior paint again. Money down the drain.