by Eileen Jones | Mar 24, 2020 | Boston, Boston Painters, Home Improvement, Professional Painting Company, Residential Interior Painting
Most garages found throughout New England are constructed with concrete floors. It is a practical and cost-effective choice for this semi-outdoor storage space that is subject to heavy loads, moisture, and chemicals. While a concrete surface is relatively inexpensive...
by Eileen Jones | Feb 25, 2020 | Historic Restoration, Interior Painting, Residential Interior Painting, Wood Restoration
“Spring is just around the corner!” So says groundhog and weather sage Punxsutawney Phil. Those of us who spend our winters cozy and buttoned up securely in our homes greet the spring with opening the windows, literally and figuratively, and begin to breathe again....
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 10, 2018 | Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, Home Improvement, Interior Painting, Residential Interior Painting, Water Damage
Here in New England the reason most paint peels is because the paint coating has become too thick and inflexible. Old homes wearing their original siding and trim can have over 15 coats over them – as the wood expands and contracts with temperature and humidity...
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, 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...
