Interior & Exterior Painting

The prep is the job

Most paint failures are prep failures — caulk that was skipped, a stain that was never sealed, a glossy trim that never got scuffed. We do that work before a brush touches the wall, then cut clean lines and roll consistently so the sheen is even under daylight.

Inside

Rooms, hallways, stairwells, ceilings, trim, doors and casings. Furniture moved and covered, floors protected, and everything back where it was at the end of the day. We work room at a time where you are living in the house, so you are never without somewhere to be.

Water stains get sealed with a stain-blocking primer rather than painted over. Emulsion on a tannin or water stain buys you about a month before it comes back through.

Outside

Siding, trim, porch ceilings, railings, doors and shutters. Exterior work in North Carolina is a scheduling problem as much as a painting one — humidity, afternoon storms and surface temperature all decide whether the coating cures properly, and rushing a wall because the crew is on site is how you get a film that peels in two summers.

Shutters come off the house, get repaired and painted flat, and go back on. Painting them in place leaves the edges and the back untouched, which is exactly where they fail.

Caulking and sealing

Caulk is the cheapest weatherproofing on a house and the first thing to go. Failed beads around windows, doors, trim junctions and where siding meets brick let water behind the surface, and by the time you see the damage it is a drywall repair as well as a paint job. Old caulk gets cut out rather than covered over, the joint is cleaned, and the new bead is tooled so it sheds water instead of holding it.

Interior caulking — the gap between trim and wall, the line above the baseboard — is what makes a repaint look like new work instead of a fresh coat on tired trim.

Getting a price

Photos of the room or the elevation, plus rough dimensions and how many coats of what colour is going over what. Painting is quoted per project. If you want the whole exterior looked at, that one is worth a short visit rather than a photo.