Chester County, Pennsylvania
House Painters in Kennett Square, PA
Kennett Square is about twenty five minutes north of our Wilmington shop, over the state line and up Route 52. It is a proper borough with a walkable grid, which means the housing is older, tighter and more decorated than anything on the Delaware side of the line.
The blocks around State Street are late nineteenth and early twentieth century: detached houses and twins with covered porches, turned columns, brackets, cornices and deep window casings. Almost all of it is painted wood, and almost all of it has a century of coatings on it already. State Street itself is commercial frontage, where the painted surfaces face the sidewalk and the work has to fit around a trading day.
Outside the borough the land is mushroom country. Kennett Square is the center of that industry, and the working buildings on those farms are a genuinely different job from the houses in town.
What we see on Kennett Square houses
Porches, columns and bracket work
The porch is the whole face of a Kennett Square house and it is also the hardest part to price. Turned columns, brackets, tongue and groove ceilings and rail spindles are slow, detailed preparation before any finish coat, and quoting one on square footage does not work.
A century of layered coatings
Most borough woodwork carries decades of paint in varying states. The failing layers come back to a sound edge and get primed, because a fresh coat bonded to a failing one fails at the same speed.
Pre-1978 substrates
This housing largely predates the 1978 lead paint ban. Disturbing old coatings is handled with proper containment and clean-up rather than open sanding, which is a working method rather than an optional extra.
Twins and attached facades
Where houses are attached there is no side access and the join with the neighboring property has to be worked to cleanly. That gets agreed before the job rather than negotiated from a ladder.
State Street shopfronts
Commercial frontage in the borough is painted wood and stucco at street level, taking constant contact. It gets scheduled so the business keeps trading, which usually means early starts rather than closures.
Working farm buildings outside the borough
The mushroom operations around the town run block, metal and wood buildings in continuous use. They are specified for durability and washdown rather than appearance, and they are quoted separately from any house on the same property.
What gets asked for in Kennett Square
Exterior Painting in Kennett Square
Siding, trim, doors, shutters and porches, washed and prepped before any paint goes on.
Interior Painting in Kennett Square
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors, prepped properly and cleaned up at the end of every day.
Commercial Painting in Kennett Square
Offices, warehouses, retail units and common areas, scheduled around your operating hours.
Pressure Washing in Kennett Square
Siding, driveways, walkways, patios and decks, at a pressure the surface can take.
Drywall Repair in Kennett Square
Holes, cracks, water damage and texture matching, on walls and ceilings you already have.
Why customers pick us
What stands behind the work is the insurance and a local owner-operated company that quotes every job from a real look at the building. Read what customers wrote on Google, or read how the business started.
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