by Nigel Costolloe | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Boston Painters, Exterior Painting, Interior Painting, Professional Painting Company
At Catchlight Painting, we’ve always put families first. We believe in recognizing and honoring the significant events in our employee’s lives. From work anniversaries to birthdays, from paternity leave to bereavement, we understand that to ask our...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jul 28, 2014 | Back Bay, Blog, Boston, Exterior Painting, Professional Painting Company, Wood Restoration
When it comes to painting mahogany, there is no ‘normal’ color. We stripped a virtually opaque mahogany exterior stain on a clear coated roof deck in Boston’s Back Bay earlier this summer; since the deck was built over an EPDM membrane we couldn’t use any acid washes...
by Nigel Costolloe | Dec 14, 2013 | EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, History, Lead-Safe Certified, Wood Restoration
Old New England homes, peeling paint and a permanent, lifetime paint coating? I don’t think so. This summer we embarked upon the restoration of a 200 year old farmhouse in Stow. Initially we had assumed our city pricing would be a deterrent but further conversation...
by Nigel Costolloe | Nov 22, 2013 | Boston, Boston Painters, Exterior Painting, Winter
There are a multitude of variables that affect paint drying – humidity, temperature, wind, direct sunshine, surface temperature, even paint color. These variables allow some relaxing of the hard and fast rule of not painting when air temperatures fall below 35 degrees...
by Nigel Costolloe | May 3, 2013 | exterior corner boards, Exterior Painting, pre-primed trim
A prospective customer called, referred by a business acquaintance, and asked us to estimate the repainting of his trim. “The house is new” he said, “it should be a simple job”. Alas, a quick review shows a panoply of problems, a multitude of...
by Nigel Costolloe | Mar 28, 2013 | Boston Painters, Customer Service, Exterior Painting, Summer
As I sat in my kitchen this morning, I was thinking how wonderful it was looking out the windows and actually seeing things: the tree in my back yard, the birds in search of breakfast and our neighbor’s house even though there were no lights shining from the...
