Painting in Scituate since 1998.
Because Scituate is on the coast, exteriors generally need to be painted every 5-7 years.
Waterfront homes: Minot, Egypt Beach, Humarock, and Scituate Harbor areas may need to paint their exteriors a bit sooner. The salt air and harsh climate in Scituate tend to beat up waterfront exteriors.
Check out our very own color fan deck: “Colors of the South Shore” which features our compilation of exterior paint colors often seen on Scituate’s historic homes.
We offer:
- Exterior painting & Staining
- Interior painting
- Kitchen Cabinet Painting
- Deck Staining
- Free color consulting at your home with a South Shore designer who works with us
- Carpentry and wood replacement (trim, shingles, clapboards, windows)
- Powerwashing
- Wallpaper installation and removal
- Expert Project Management
- Commercial Painting for Scituate and South Shore businesses
Scroll down for tips on maintaining your home in the Scituate coastal climate.
Interior / Exterior Painting
CertaPro Painters® of the South Shore and Boston offers professional interior & exterior painting services to the Scituate, MA service area.
Interior / Exterior Painting
Commercial Painting
CertaPro Painters® of the South Shore and Boston offers professional commercial painting services to the Scituate, MA service area.
Commercial Painting
Maintaining Your Scituate Home
From fantastic schools to beautiful seaside homes, the Scituate community takes lots of pride in their town. The homes in Scituate reflect a low-key vibe that you feel the minute you come over the Scituate town line.
Scituate interior painting:
The residents of Scituate love to entertain and gather, so their homes (and town restaurants) reflect this.
Interior painting inside newer Scituate homes:
The newer home developments in Scituate include many open-floor plans, where deciding on a color palette is a matter of choosing one or two colors and a few tones that work together nicely. Our color consultant has helped many of our Scituate customers decide on a palette that allows an open floor plan to flow together without feeling choppy. Working with our designer is free for our customers and is worth the time to get the color “just right.”
Interior Painting to older and antique Scituate homes:
As an old fishing and sea mossing community, there are many historic homes and buildings in Scituate that require specific painting and repair know-how. We can handle horsehair plaster repairs, wallpaper removal, painting natural or stained moldings, and most other issues that you’ll encounter when repairing and maintaining your older or antique Scituate house. If your interior contains lead paint, we are licensed to work on your home safely – a big concern inside since lead paint can be a health hazard for your family.
Exterior Painting in Scituate:
We’ve painted date-boarded homes in Scituate and even worked with the Scituate Historical Society to ensure our customers’ exterior colors were historically accurate. Our Scituate customers in newer homes have also worked closely with our staff designer (a free service to our customers) to choose colors that “feel” like Scituate while still standing out as unique from their neighbors’ homes.
Giving Back to the Scituate Community:
We feel it’s important to give back to the Scituate community and have donated to non-profits such as The Inly School, Gates Middle School, Jenkins School, and the Scituate Animal Shelter.
Do you need a raffle prize or silent auction donation for your Duxbury non-profit? Just email [email protected], and we’ll respond with a gift certificate you can raffle off or sell.
A checklist of things to consider when painting your Scituate home:
Rotted wood (trim, clapboards, shingles) are very common in Scituate because the salt-air and the harsh winter storms have hit Scituate particularly hard in the past decade. We have carpenters on staff that can take care of these issues before we paint. It is important that Scituate homeowners repair rotted wood on their home’s exterior as soon as they see it, so the rot does not grow larger and more costly to repair.
Most Scituate homes have at least some cedar shingles which require care and maintenance. Many Scituate customers like to allow their shingles to gray while other people like to add a coat of solid or semi-solid stain so their shingles don’t weather very much and remain newer looking.
Shingles often grow mold and mildew and need a powerwash using a mold-killing detergent. If shingles are constantly in the shade however, the mold or mildew will grow back, so it’s a good idea to trim shady trees to let the sun shine on your shingles to help dry them out and mitigate the mold.
Scituate homes get battered because of the coastal climate. This has caused a lot of wind, water, and salt damage to exterior homes. Again, our carpenters can repair these issues.
Consider PVC boards when replacing rotted wood—especially if you’ll be staying in your home for a while. Although PVC is more expensive than wood, replacing rotted wood with PVC is a permanent solution that’s likely to pay you back if you’ll be in your home for a few more years.
We don’t have to replace ALL your trim – just the rotted boards. This means that you can “inter-mix” PVC boards with the wood ones that are in good shape on your home. Once the PVC is painted to match the wood, you won’t know the difference (except the PVC won’t rot!). PVC is also available in many historic molding profiles, so they look even more authentic on your Scituate home.
The paint in Scituate takes a beating from the salt air and the harsh winters. To protect your Scituate home’s wood, it’s a good idea to apply a “maintenance coat” of paint or stain every 3-5 years.
Email me at [email protected] with your Scituate painting and carpentry questions (even if you’re doing the project yourself!)
