by Nigel Costolloe | Mar 19, 2015 | Back Bay, Blog
I’ve always considered the residential painting industry a little like the old Wild West – largely unregulated, filled with independent minded, go-it-alone types. In industry parlance reference is made to painters who operate on the margins as station...
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 13, 2015 | IceDams, Water Damage
I won’t indulge my desire to moan about how much I’ve had to shovel this past month, nor the shoveling expected this weekend with the arrival of our next blizzard. Instead, in the spirit of camaraderie and New England stoicism, I offer you this image from...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Boston Painters, Exterior Painting, Interior Painting, Professional Painting Company
At Catchlight Painting, we’ve always put families first. We believe in recognizing and honoring the significant events in our employee’s lives. From work anniversaries to birthdays, from paternity leave to bereavement, we understand that to ask our...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jul 28, 2014 | Back Bay, Blog, Boston, Exterior Painting, Professional Painting Company, Wood Restoration
When it comes to painting mahogany, there is no ‘normal’ color. We stripped a virtually opaque mahogany exterior stain on a clear coated roof deck in Boston’s Back Bay earlier this summer; since the deck was built over an EPDM membrane we couldn’t use any acid washes...
by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 27, 2014 | Back Bay, Kitchens
Recently we were asked to paint kitchen cabinets in a Back Bay home on Marlborough street; the original finish had been sprayed on the doors but the boxes were brushed and showed minute contamination – rubbing the finish revealed a slight texture consistent with...
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...
