Interior and exterior painting in the San Gabriel Valley
We are a San Gabriel Valley painting contractor in Southern California. Our residential
painting company has 30+ years of experience doing high quality
interior and exterior house painting, taking extra care to fully
prepare all surfaces. As an environmentally conscious San
Gabriel Valley house painter we offer our
clients the means to save energy. For a free estimate please
email us or give us
a call at (626) 488 6885
Our painting company, located in San Gabriel Valley, also provides high
quality finishes for kitchens, cabinets, and bathrooms. Our San
Gabriel Valley house painter team will do first class enamel work on all your crown
moldings, windows, doors, frames, chair rails, and baseboards.
First class wood stain work and color matching are some of the
specialties of our San Gabriel Valley residential painting company. As a top-notch
San Gabriel Valley
painting contractor, we use high quality paints from Dunn
Edwards, Sherwin Williams, Vista, Devoe, Duron, Behr, Benjamin Moore, Cabot, Glidden, ICI
Dulux, Minwax, and Ralph Lauren.
Our San Gabriel Valley painting company has expertise in the treatment and
repair of residential painting problem surfaces, such as:
peeling, flaking, and bubbling areas. Our extra preparation
includes washing, cleaning, scraping, and sanding all lose
paint. We then prime all the bare wood, repair any lose window
glazing, caulk wood joints and fill cracks. Finally, our
experienced San Gabriel Valley house painter crew installs the specified number of
finish coats with spray, roller, or paint brush.
Areas of the San Gabriel
Valley we service:
The communities of Glendale, La Crescenta, and
Montrose, are treated as part of the San Gabriel Valley,
including Verdugo City, El Sereno, Eagle Rock, San Marino, South
Pasadena, Highland Park, and as far west as Griffith Park. In
the north we find La Cañada Flintridge (AKA: La Canada or La
Canada Flintridge), Pasadena, Altadena, Arcadia, Sierra Madre,
Monrovia, Bradbury, Azusa, and east to Glendora, San Dimas,
Citrus, and Diamond Bar. In the southern border we find
Whittier, Montebello, Temple City, Rosemead, Baldwin Park,
Monterey Park, El Monte, and Walnut to the east. Centrally
located are Covina, West Covina, Hacienda Heights, City of
Industry, La Puente, San Gabriel, South San Gabriel, South
Pasadena, and Irwindale. Including places, as: Valinda, Vincent,
South San Jose Hills, Rowland Heights, Mayflower Village,
Avocado Heights, Bassett, and Charter Oaks.
Can paint lower your energy costs?
Although quality painting is pleasing to the eye, its primary
function is to preserve and weatherproof your home. Newer
elastomeric caulking, sealants, and paints, not only protect
your house against moisture and rot, but also help
control your
energy cost.
The better insulation afforded by these materials
is the reason our San Gabriel Valley house painter crew is so fuzzy about sealing
with caulk! A residential structure that has been caulked and
sealed well is more energy efficient.
See what the experts say
All the above is even more relevant when you consider the
temperature extremes of paint in the San Gabriel Valley.
Some
mornings can be very cold, yet a little after midday can feel
just like summertime. However, there's much more...please read
the following exciting paragraph.
Hi-Tech Energy Saving Coatings:
Our San Gabriel Valley painting company is very proud to introduce these new energy
saving coatings into the San Gabriel Valley house painter
community. These Hi-Tech coatings are the same ones used by the
University of Colorado, the 2002 and 2005 first place winner of
the Solar Decathlon.
These energy saving coatings can be used on roofs, attics,
ceilings, interior and exterior walls. They achieve energy
savings by allowing less of a "footprint" for energy to radiate
into or out of a given area.
Houses painted with these Hi-Tech coatings will cost less to
heat during winter, and less to cool during summer. The
negligible cost of using these paint coatings will more than pay
for itself in energy savings, year after year. Another benefit
of using these paints is that they are longer lasting, with
better resistance to scuff, wear, and abrasion.
Want a small, no cost demonstration?
Our San Gabriel Valley painting company will
be more than glad to setup a 15 minute demonstration so that you
can personally witness the energy savings,
just ask us!
Copyright D. Aloy
Feel like your last painter did a lousy job?
- How long should a paint job last?
- Flaking paint in less than a year?
- Can the paint you put on your house save energy?
Perhaps you have a
good reason to feel that way! Let's face it: Many residential
painting contractors skimp on surface preparation. Heck, we've
seen many a San Gabriel Valley house painter that didn't care enough to simply dust
off the area to be painted! They will paint right over dirt,
dust, and scum! Much less will they clean, sand, prime, and
caulk!
This near-absolute lack of surface preparation is called a
"blow and go" in the
San Gabriel Valley house
painter trade.
The unsuspecting homeowners are then fooled into paying the
San Gabriel Valley
painting contractor for substandard work, since most freshly
painted structures look good. However, upon the first change of
season the lack of good painting preparation will be very
noticeable, showing areas of bubbling, cracking, and peeling
paint.
Relevant to San Gabriel Valley Residential
Painting:
When you consider the temperature extremes
that a San Gabriel Valley house painter has to confront, with cool mornings and hot summertime
conditions at noon, paint materials will not tolerate the
temperature-induced flexing, expanding, and shrinking, unless
the surface preparation is first class.
How long should your paint job last?
If a
San Gabriel Valley residential painting contractor has prepared a house well,
there is no reason a paint job shouldn't last at least 5 to 7
years. The newer acrylic paints have superior color retention
qualities and are less prone to dulling when compared to alkyd
oil based paints. The most common reason many paint jobs lack
durability is poor surface preparation by the painting
contractor.
Latex over oil:
This is one of the biggest reasons for lack of adhesion and
durability. Once a structure is painted with oil based paint -
like a kitchen or bathroom - latex paint will not stick to it
unless a primer is used between the new latex paint and the old
oil based paint. If you've ever seen paint that comes right off
with just the touch of your fingernail, that's possibly the
reason why.
Problem Prep:
Badly prepared painting surfaces can have mildew, tree sap, and
wood knots show up again and again. Stains such as pencil and
ink marks, crayon, coloring pencil, and grease can surface again
when not treated with a stain blocking primer.
Excessive Thinning:
Other bad
San Gabriel Valley painting contractor practices involve the excess
thinning of paint. If you've ever seen paint that started to
come off in very thin sheets, over-thinning the paint is what
causes that. Stucco and foundation areas can start flaking and
crumbling due to excess moisture because they were not sealed
correctly. When your San Gabriel Valley house painter turns 10 gallons of paint
into 15 - by over thinning with solvent - that is what happens!
Your home is perhaps
your greatest investment and the proper painting methods will
give it many extra years of long-lasting value.
Don't be a victim of "blow and go."
