by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 27, 2014 | Brookline, Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, History, Interior Painting, Lead-Safe Certified, Residential Interior Painting, Safety
The EPA rolled out new regulations in 2010 designed to protect the occupants of homes where lead paint is being disturbed. Referred to as the RRP rule, or Renovate, Repair and Painting rule, these regulations affect any work performed in a house built before 1978...
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 25, 2013 | Back Bay, Boston, Boston Painters, Interior Painting
Often, in recent blogs and on our website we discuss the importance of painting preparation and proper applications to surfaces before any painting begins. The pictures below are of a recent project in Boston’s Back Bay. The repair and preparation work that is shown...
by Nigel Costolloe | Oct 29, 2012 | Boston, Boston Painters, Environmentally Friendly Paints, Interior Painting
As an environmentally conscious company, we go to great lengths to avoid use of solvent-based finishes in favor of water-based low and zero VOC (volatile organic solvents) paints. Occasionally however a client will insist on a more traditional oil-based finish. Below...
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 17, 2012 | Cambridge, Customer Service, Interior Painting, Lead-Safe Certified
One of the tasks we take very seriously when we are welcomed in a customer’s home to paint is cleanliness. For my part I am on the OCD end of the spectrum when it comes to cleanliness – my weekends involve exercise, trail running with my dog Huey, and...
by Nigel Costolloe | Nov 11, 2011 | Boston Painters, Customer Service, Home Improvement, Interior Painting, Professional Painting Company
We’re known for being discriminating, and also for being more expensive than most Boston painting companies. We pride ourselves on superlative finishes of course, and also on meticulous prep. So it’s often a surprise to our clients when they hand us the...
by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 15, 2011 | Blog, Boston Painters, Environmentally Friendly Paints, Historic Restoration, Interior Painting, Paint Quality Institute
There’s a great outfit just outside Philadelphia that is a valuable resource to we painting professionals, the Paint Quality Institute, www.paintquality.com. The institute’s mission is to inform and educate the professional as well as the consumer. Their Director of...
