Painting, Drywall & Remodeling in La Grange, IL

La Grange is one of the older towns in our service area and one of the best for exterior work, in the sense that there is a lot of it and it genuinely needs doing well. The village has a substantial historic district of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century houses, much of it wood-sided, with the porches, brackets, deep eaves and multi-pane windows that come with that era.

On a house like that, an exterior repaint is a prep job with a paint job at the end. Paint that has been building up on wood siding for a hundred years does not fail evenly — one elevation chalks, another peels down to bare wood, the south-facing trim gives up first, and the porch ceiling is its own separate problem. Scraping back to an edge that holds, priming every piece of bare and weathered wood, and caulking the joints before any finish coat goes on is where the labor is and where the lifespan comes from. We write that prep into the quote by elevation rather than averaging it.

Inside, these houses are plaster, with painted millwork that has seen many coats. Plaster cracks on a line and separates from the lath in sections, so it wants fastening back and skimming rather than filling. Old oil-based trim needs de-glossing and priming before a waterborne finish will bond to it — skip that and the new paint peels off in sheets within a year. It is detail work, and it is a large part of why people in La Grange call a crew that does drywall, plaster and paint rather than one that only rolls walls.