Interior & Exterior Painting in Joliet

House painting in Joliet, inside and out

Painting is mostly prep, and we price it that way. The crew scrapes and sands loose paint, fills cracks and holes, caulks gaps at trim and siding, primes bare or stained spots and masks off everything that is not getting painted. Interior work covers walls, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets. Exterior work covers siding, trim, doors, porches and railings, and rotted pieces get replaced rather than buried under paint.

We cover Joliet from I-80 and I-55, with Route 30, Route 53, Jefferson Street and Larkin Avenue getting us across town. Joliet has a wide range of houses, from the neighborhoods around downtown and the Rialto Square Theatre to the blocks along Larkin Avenue on the west side. Where a house has wood siding under many layers of old paint, the job is scraping to a sound edge, sanding the ridges down and priming the bare wood, and we spell out that labor on the estimate. Plaster walls need their own approach: cracks get opened up, taped and skim coated before paint, because caulk alone just lets them show through again.

What we include on a Joliet paint job

How a Joliet painting job goes

We look at every wall and every side of the house before we write anything, then hand you a free written estimate with the surfaces, the prep, the products and the coat count. Old houses hide things, so if scraping turns up rotted clapboard or a failing sill, we stop, price it in writing and wait for your yes. The crew shows up on the days we booked, and outside work runs on dry days above 50 degrees from spring through fall. A final walkthrough with you closes out the job.

• Scraping and sanding priced as real labor
• Plaster cracks taped, not caulked
• Bare wood primed before finish coats
• Changes approved in writing first
• Insured, certificate on request
• Space left cleaner than we found it