The key to exceptional exterior painting?

The work we do before we paint

Our goal is to give your home a beautiful finish that will look great not just on the day we finish painting, but that will still look great years later. The key to making that happen is the work we do preparing your house for painting. We have decades of experience painting northern New Jersey’s old homes, and we know that one of the most important steps in any exterior paint job is sanding the finish to remove the many layers of old, cracked paint.

We invite you to watch the videos at right to learn about our sanding process and how it will give your house a high-value finish that lasts many years. We also have information here on the site about our priming process.

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Sanding is key to a long-lasting paint finish. Removing the many layers of old paint is essential if you want the new paint to last.

We recommend sanding down to bare wood.

Before we apply the first brush stroke of paint, we recommend three careful stages of sanding. Our goal: a smooth finish that will bond with the paint.

Cedar shakes after sanding by Independent Painters. Our sanding process removes 90 percent of the old paint.

When we finish sanding your house, we want it to look like it did the day the carpenters finished nailing on the siding.

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