by Nigel Costolloe | Oct 25, 2012 | Professional Painting Company
My son Jesse and I spent 5 days in London last week – his first visit, and I enjoyed seeing the familiar city through his eyes. Double decker buses that seem precariously unstable as they turn corners, London bobbies in their tidy blue suits and peaked helmets,...
by Nigel Costolloe | Oct 16, 2012 | Professional Painting Company, Safety
Performing at your best can only happen if you have the right tools. In the photo below, taken in Boston’s Back Bay this past late summer, I stopped to chat with the employees of a large commercial painting company that does a lot of work around Boston. The men were...
by Nigel Costolloe | Sep 21, 2012 | Belmont, Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Wood Restoration
In these photos below we have removed all flaking paint from a Belmont, MA home. The exterior walls looked sound from a distance but up close, each shingle showed a latticework of cracked paint – in painting parlance this is called ‘alligatoring’. It...
by Nigel Costolloe | Aug 31, 2012 | Blog, Professional Painting Company, Safety
In the following article our employee Mike points out the challenges to working safely when on a jobsite – threats are myriad and everywhere. We are reasonably astute about safety training but there is always room for improvement and feedback like Mike’s...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jul 10, 2012 | Brookline, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration
One of the earliest lessons I learned in painting was not to rush to apply the 2nd coat. Oil-primed exterior walls on a Brookline Victorian were taking forever to dry; the paint can label suggested 48 hours before recoating – I waited a full week then applied a...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jun 22, 2012 | Cambridge, Water Damage
Rod Serling in the Twilight Zone would use the phrase “submitted for your approval..” and then go on to describe the latest nightmare scenario. I have my own example to submit, captured in the photograph below. A hardwood deck in Cambridge, built flush to...
