Serving Gastonia, NC

Painting work in Gastonia splits along build era. The mill villages around Loray and Arlington are wood-frame houses with clapboard siding, deep trim profiles and many layers of old paint, much of it from before 1978, so on those houses we contain the chips, wet-scrape instead of dry-sanding, and HEPA-vacuum the work area before scraping back to a sound edge. In the York Chester district the same is true of porch columns and window casings. Brick ranches off Union Road, Garrison Boulevard and New Hope Road need fascia, soffit, shutters and garage doors far more than they need walls. Downtown storefronts and offices along Main Avenue ask for commercial painting worked around retail hours, and inside, most calls are interior painting for walls, ceilings and trim.

Gaston County sits west of Charlotte and gets the same heat and humidity, and that decides the order of an exterior job here. We wash first, kill mildew on the shaded north and northeast walls, and let the substrate dry down before primer, because growth painted over comes back through the new film. Pine and oak pollen coats siding and porch ceilings for weeks in spring, so fresh coats get scheduled around the bloom rather than through it. Red clay splash stains the bottom courses of light siding and foundation brick, which is why pressure washing is part of the paint job rather than a separate errand. Those washing and priming steps are the first half of any exterior painting job here.

Gastonia is about 23 miles out I-85 for us, so we set full days here rather than half days, and crews arrive early to follow the shade around the house in summer. On occupied houses we move and cover furniture, run drop cloths on traffic paths, and clean the site at the end of every day. Downtown and industrial buildings get after-hours or weekend windows when a shift or a storefront cannot stop. Every job starts with a walkthrough and a free written estimate that names surfaces, coat count and repairs, down to the drywall patching we find inside. Call (704) 688-1786 to get on the schedule.