Doors in your Arlington Heights house that close without a shove, and trim with sharp detail instead of thick paint. We strip back the buildup where it is causing trouble before we repaint.
We paint the baseboard, casing, crown, window trim, stair rails and spindles, and the doors inside and outside your house. Every piece gets filled, caulked and sanded, and old oil-based paint gets a bonding primer so the new enamel sticks. Doors come off and lie flat for painting where that gives the better finish. Once the paint cures, each door goes back on its hinges with its hardware.
We work in Arlington Heights every week, coming in on Route 53 and Arlington Heights Road and along Northwest Highway, from downtown and the Metra station out through the neighborhoods of this part of Cook County. If your trim has been painted over many times, the layers fill in the profile of the molding and pile up on the edges of the doors. Thick paint on the hinge side and the latch edge is a common reason a door binds or will not latch. We scrape or sand those edges back, ease the door if it still rubs, and then paint so the door closes clean.
Layers of old paint on the latch and hinge edges get scraped and sanded back before the new coat.
A door that still rubs after the buildup is gone gets planed where it hits, then sealed.
Profiles filled in by layers of paint get scraped out so the shape of the trim shows again.
Hinges caked in paint get stripped clean, or swapped for new ones if you would rather change the finish.
Rails and spindles get sanded smooth where old drips and runs have built up, then repainted.
Old oil-based finishes get scuff-sanded and primed so the new enamel bonds instead of peeling.
After a free visit, you get a written estimate listing each door, each room of trim, the stripping we expect and the sheen. Old paint can hide damage, like a split jamb or a hinge that has worked loose, and any fix like that gets priced in writing for your approval first. We set the dates with you and keep to them. The job ends with a walkthrough where we check that every door closes and latches.
Call or text (815) 585-1750. We will check every door that binds and write up the stripping, prep and paint.
Call or text (815) 585-1750
Email matt@onitcc.com