What we repaint
After the loss, six kinds of work
Each has the same record behind it. We start once your restoration firm or adjuster says the area is clear.
Smoke and soot
After your restoration crew cleans, an odor-blocking sealer and a stain-blocking primer go on before the finish coats.
Walls and ceilings
Sealer and primer, then color
Odor checked before handback
Water stains and ceilings
Stained plaster and drywall are repaired and sealed once drying is confirmed, then painted to the edge of the wall.
Ceilings, walls and soffits
Stain-blocking primer
Repairs feathered flat
Fire and rebuild
Where a room was cut out and rebuilt, new drywall is finished and primed, and the color is matched to the rooms around it.
New drywall, finished
Trim and doors
Matched in daylight and lamplight
Apartments and offices
A unit-by-unit scope, a schedule around neighbors and tenants, and one packet per unit for the carrier.
Units, corridors and suites
One packet per unit
A contact for the manager
Trim, doors and cabinets
Smoke gets into wood and caulk. We seal and prime, and tell you in writing when a piece should be replaced instead.
Sealed before painted
Replace-or-repaint noted
Hardware masked and labeled
Color matching
A repaired wall is painted corner to corner, so there is no patch to find. The match is checked before the room is handed back.
Corner to corner
Existing colors matched
Sheen matched
Why the order matters
Sealer goes on before the color
Paint alone does not hold back a smoke odor or a water stain. It shows through, sometimes within weeks.
So the order is fixed: repair, seal, prime, then the finish coats. Each product is on a data sheet in the packet, and each coat is a line in the daily log. If your restoration firm used a sealer or cleaner of its own, we ask for its data sheet so we choose a primer that goes over it.
The order
Repair and feather every damaged edge
Odor-blocking sealer where smoke reached
Stain-blocking primer over water marks
Finish coats, matched to the room
Two ways to repaint
A full repaint, and a quick coat
The second costs less on the day and more later. This is what a written scope shows the difference in.
| A quick coat over it | A post-loss repaint | |
|---|---|---|
| Smoke odor | A quick coat over itPainted over, may return | A post-loss repaintBetter: Sealed before the primer |
| Water stains | A quick coat over itFinish coat over the stain | A post-loss repaintBetter: Stain-blocking primer on a dry surface |
| Repairs | A quick coat over itVisible under the paint | A post-loss repaintBetter: Feathered flat and primed |
| Color | A quick coat over itPatch beside the old wall | A post-loss repaintBetter: Corner to corner |
| Record | A quick coat over itA one-line invoice | A post-loss repaintBetter: Scope, photos and daily log |
Send an address and we will walk the rooms.
A coordinator logs the loss and texts you a time. The walk is how every job starts.