Painting Syracuse NY

Donigan Painting and Remodeling had the pleasure of repainting a dutch colonials dining room with coffered ceilings this past week.  The walls needed extensive prep work which included applying a skim coat, sanding to smooth and applying a high quality primer to seal it.  In this case we used Seal-Grip by Benjamin Moore an interior/exterior acrylic primer that provides an excellent bonding surface for your paint.  You cannot scratch this stuff off once it's on.  We will be using the same product in an industrial setting next week on cinder block in a heavily trafficked warehousing company.  Once all the surfaces have been sanded to smooth we taped out all the wood molding to protect it and applied Benjamin Moore's flat white Waterborne Ceiling Paint 2x.  The walls will be being wall papered with a Classic Disney themed pattern we picked out from Sherwin Williams next week.  Pictures will be posted once it is papered.  If you are bored with paint the new patterns and textures in  wallpaper is worth checking out for some variety.  Take a minute to stop by your favorite paint store and look thru what they have to offer.  Also coming is a kitchen remodel we will be completing this week that was a total gut from studs out-electrical-plumbing-cabinets-flooring.  Stay tuned!

Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting & Remodeling
Syracuse NY 13208
315-313-3254

 

Interior Painting SU Colonial

This week Donigan Painting worked on an older home in the SU area.  This customer needed their living room and master bedroom repainted.  Due to sensitivity to paint odor we used no VOC paint from Purcell's Paint's.  If you are allergic or irritated by paint odors this is the way to go so you do not smell anything.  No VOC means there are no volatile organic compound's floating around as the paint dries.  They chose a dark grey low sheen color for the living room and a light green low sheen paint for their master bedroom.  The product used in both rooms was Benjamin Moore's Ultra Spec 500 No VOC interior paint.  We used the same product to repaint the molding in an ultra white semi-gloss finish.  All molding was taped out for clean straight lines, walls were sanded to smooth, dings and dents were floated out with joint compound, floors were protected.  Here are some pictures of how it turned out. 


Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting
Syracuse NY
315-313-3254

Interior Painting Fayetteville NY-Syracuse NY

Donigan Painting worked on a whole house interior repaint this past week in Fayetteville.  This newer colonial needed to be freshened up before being put up for sale.  The 4 bedrooms, living room, dining room, entry hallway, stairway and office were two coated.  The master bedroom was a light green and one of the bedrooms was a dark blue with a blue ceiling so three coats were needed in each for optimal coverage.    The original colors were yellow and beige through out and changed to Classic Ivory from Sherwin Williams in their low lustre finish Cashmere Paint .  For the uninitiated low lustre is a combination of eggshell and satin sheens.  It's more or less satin.  As usual all furniture was centered and covered with plastic, switch/outlet plates were removed, all the natural wood molding was taped out and drop clothes were put down on finished floors.  The walls dings-dents-holes were filled with joint compound, sanded to smooth and cleaned.  The ceilings were coated twice with SW's Eminence Ceiling Paint in a flat bright white.  In addition to painting we also refinished a bunch of the wood windows that had faded due to sunlight.  Here we removed the mutin's, sanded the old polyurethane off and three coated them with a satin oil polyurethane.  The pictures below show the entry hallway after painting, the master, the blue room before-after and last the master before.

Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting
Syracuse, NY 13208
315-313-3254
http://doniganpainting.webstarts.com/

Deck restain-Skaneateles NY

This week Donigan Painting had the pleasure of refinishing a deck and rails in beautiful Skaneateles on the lake.  This job was a referral from another deck and smoke house we did down the street last summer.  Joe's restain included all the railing-spindles-stringers-joists.  Before we stained everything was hand scraped, sanded, washed-scrubbed to remove mold-dust-dirt and screwed secure.  After preparing the surfaces we applied two coats of Sherwin-Williams Super-Deck Solid White.  Here is how it turned out.

Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting
Syracuse NY 13208
315-313-3254
http://doniganpainting.webstarts.com/

Exterior Painting Syracuse NY-Tudor University

These past two weeks Donigan Painting had the pleasure of restoring and repainting a 1920's tudor located in the Syracuse University neighborhood.  These customers chose the A-Plan which included extensive sanding to feather out old buckling alligator skinned paint, thorough caulking and two coats of high quality Benjamin Moore Paint.  Since it is an older home built before 1978 lead safe practices included wet scraping, high mil plastic ground cover, specialty sanding tools and extensive cleaning with a hepa vacuum .  The prep work for this older home included washing dirt-dust off gently due to its stucco façade, hand scraping-cutting back loose paint, specialty machine sanding to feather in the scraped paint edges, oil priming bare wood, caulking seams-gaps, wood putty filling holes, glazing older windows.  A boom lift was used to reach peaks and other high points on this job.  Once the prep work was completed we applied two coats of paint that matched the existing colors in a low sheen and flat sheen.  The homeowners were very happy with the results and led to us staining their 100'+ of deck rail-spindles-stringers. This job also led to another repaint we will be doing around the corner from this home in a few weeks. 

Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting
224 Ross Park
Syracuse NY 13208
315-313-3254
http://doniganpainting.webstarts.com/

Strathmore California Bungalow Repaint Syracuse NY

Last week we had the pleasure of restoring a 1920's Syracuse gem on the west side.  The home had not been painted since 1980 and needed a lot of tlc.  Extensive prep work was needed in order to get the surfaces ready to accept primer, caulk and paint.  Most of the paint came off in large sheets and crumbled away.  Oil primer was applied twice to many areas that were down to the bare wood.  After priming we caulked gaps and seams with a 25 year latex siliconized caulk.  All areas were extensively protected to contain lead and thoroughly vacuumed to remove fine particles.  Loose clapboards were nailed down and some of the soffit molding was replaced(in the first pic the soffit mold was replaced after this shot was taken).  Two coats of high quality paint were sprayed and brushed into all the nooks and crannies.  On the two dormer soffits alone we used 3 gallons to super coat them.  The owners have lived here for 50+ years and said they couldn't be happier with the results.  This repaint came as a referral for work done on another home up the street.   

Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting & Remodeling
Syracuse, NY 13208
315-313-3254
http://doniganpainting.webstarts.com

Exterior Repaint Syracuse University

Last week we had gorgeous weather which made for great painting conditions in central NY.  This customer was a referral from a tudor home we painted across the street last summer on Berkley.  In this case we needed to fix a previous painters mistakes who did not prime or put enough prep work into the surface.  This caused the paint, which is Aura by Benjamin Moore, to fail faster than it should have.  It was obvious after walking around the house and scraping some test spots there was no primer applied and the cleaning was sub-par leaving chips and dust mixed in with this previous painters finish application.  In order to make it right we hand scrape the failed paint off, vacuum the surfaces, lightly sand, vacuum again, oil prime bare wood and apply two coats of Ben Moore Aura.  We used a lift to access the steeper parts of the houses siding minimizing any wear and tear on the roof and keeping the painters safe.  Here are some pictures of before and after from some rough parts of the home. 

Bill Donigan
Donigan Painting
224 Ross Park
Syracuse NY 13208
315-313-3254
http://doniganpainting.webstarts.com/