Trim & Door Painting in Orland Park

Trim and door painting in Orland Park

Painting trim and doors means getting a hard enamel to stick to surfaces that were never meant to hold it: shiny old paint, varnish, or bare wood with knots. We clean off the grime that builds up on trim near hands and floors, fill nail holes and dents, caulk the joints and sand away the gloss. A primer chosen for the surface goes on next, then the finish coats in the sheen you choose. Floors, counters and anything nearby stay covered the whole time.

Orland Park is on our regular route; we get there by I-80 and LaGrange Road, with 159th Street and Wolf Road taking us through the rest of town in Cook County. If your trim and doors are stained oak and you want them painted white, the prep is different from a repaint. The clear finish gets scuffed and degreased, and the first coat is a stain-blocking primer, because oak tannins can bleed yellow through an ordinary primer. Open grain can also show through paint, so we talk with you about filling it for a smooth face or leaving the texture.

What goes into an Orland Park trim job

How an Orland Park trim job runs

We start with a look at the trim and doors and a written estimate that names the prep, the primer, the enamel and the number of coats for each area. If you are switching from stained to painted, we can paint a sample section first so you see the result before we commit the whole house. Any change, like adding the doors in a room we did not price, gets written up for you to approve. We book around the days we said and finish with a walkthrough and touch-ups.

• Primer matched to the old finish
• Tannin bleed blocked on stained wood
• Grain choice written in the estimate
• Sample section on request
• Changes approved in writing
• Hardware back on and doors rehung