Serving Monroe, NC

The oldest part of Monroe sits around the Union County courthouse on North Main Street, and spreads out through Hayne Street, Winchester Avenue and Charlotte Avenue. Those are wood-frame houses with lap siding, deep trim profiles, plaster walls and paint layers going back decades, so exterior painting in Monroe usually starts with scraping and wood repair rather than color. Farther out along Secrest Shortcut Road and Sikes Mill Road, the 1985-2005 subdivisions were built with hardboard siding that is now at repaint age and swelling at the bottom edges. Along Dickerson Boulevard and near the Monroe airport, the work is commercial painting in shops, offices and warehouse space.

Most houses in the historic core were built before 1978, so we assume lead-bearing layers underneath and use lead-safe practice: wet scraping, drop cloths under the work area, and cleanup of chips instead of dry-sanding a whole elevation. Union County humidity keeps shaded north walls damp for hours after sunrise, so mildew grows back through a new coat unless it is washed and killed first. Washing comes before primer, and the substrate dries down before anything is applied. Pine pollen coats siding through April. In July we start on the shaded side and follow it around so the film does not skin before it bonds.

Monroe sits about 25 miles out US-74 from us, and the Monroe Expressway keeps it a clean run, so crews arrive early and work a full day instead of half of one. Landlords and property managers here mostly need speed between tenants, so we schedule apartment and multi-family painting as unit turns and record the colors so later touch-ups match. In occupied houses, interior painting moves room by room, and we patch nail pops and cracks, spot-prime each patch, and hit old water stains with a stain-blocking primer so nothing flashes or bleeds through the finish. Floors and furniture stay covered and we sweep before leaving. Call for a free written estimate that lists the scope surface by surface.