by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 22, 2011 | Blog, Brookline, Wood Restoration
I’m not sure why our craft is called painting when the vast majority of our time is spent preparing surfaces for paint. Invited to repaint the back deck of a gorgeously detailed home in Brookline, we find a paint failure common to newer construction. The wood in 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...
by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 4, 2011 | Boston Painters, Exterior Painting, IceDams, Water Damage, Winter
It’s an appropriately wintry April 1st to write a blog about last winter’s remarkably damaging weather. This past month we have seen a significant rise in the number of projects related to ice dams. We were lucky enough to avoid such calamities at our home, but Mother...
by Nigel Costolloe | Mar 21, 2011 | Boston Painters, Environmentally Friendly Paints, Home Improvement, Interior Painting, Professional Painting Company
Ceiling paint is typically the cheapest and lowest tech coating we apply. Not by choice, mind you – the market has decided since ceilings are low maintenance surfaces, white ceiling paints should be cheaper than wall and trim coatings. Reasonable logic, I suppose....
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 25, 2011 | Customer Service, Residential Interior Painting
And from our cold case files, an article written by Justin Keane a year ago, but one that still resonates today Much to my wife’s chagrin, I willingly and somewhat credulously engage with some of the more far-flung segments of popular culture—to wit, more often than...
by Brian | Feb 21, 2011 | Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, Home Improvement, Interior Painting, Wood Restoration
For those of us who have left behind our younger years, the cold dry air of winter can offer up insults beyond mere inconvenience and discomfort. I refer to the additional 10 years winter air can add to our age as a new facial topography emerges. Wrinkles appear...
