Residential & Commercial
Painting in Lakeville.

Offering Professional Color Consulting

Our free color consultant can help you pick the perfect color for your Lakeville home that will stand the test of time while still showing that classic New England charm.  Kate can work with you to choose both interior and exterior paint colors and after you spend an hour with her, your home will look cohesive and well-designed.  If you’d like a free color rendering of some paint colors you’re considering, just ask our estimator to snap a few photos at the time of your quote and we’ll put together a rendering before you even hire us.

Suggestions for painting your Lakeville home:

Rotted trim, shingles, and clapboards are understandably common on Lakeville homes. Because our New England winters don’t play nicely with the wood on Lakeville homes, wood failure is common on Lakeville exteriors. The added moisture from the 4,000 acres of lakes in town doesn’t help with rotting wood either. If you see rotting wood boards on your home, replace the wood as soon as possible, so you don’t have further internal damage as the water seeps into the wood’s porous fibers. We can do that for you!

PVC vs. Wood replacement boards – We have carpenters on staff to replace rotted wood on your Lakeville home before we paint. We often replace rotted wood boards with PVC material so the rotting won’t continue. While PVC materials can cost a bit more, knowing you won’t have to replace them again will save you money in the long run. It’s also our general practice to only replace the rotted wood boards with PVC, which, when painted, is hard to distinguish from the existing wood on your home. Leaving the non-rotted wood in place while we only repair the rotten wood can help to lower the overall cost to you. Modern PVC is also available to match many historic molding profiles to maintain your antique home in period style – we can even replace wood gutters with a direct-match PVC solution! If you plan to put your home on the market sooner rather than later, choosing less expensive wood materials to replace your boards can be more cost-effective.

Stormy Lakeville winters: Since Lakeville is so close to the coast, coastal storms present an issue for your exterior. With this in mind, we use paints and stains to help combat the wear and tear on your Lakeville home’s exterior. Lakeville homes must be painted every 5-7 years to ensure the wood remains preserved.  It can also be a good idea to add a “maintenance coat” of paint or stain every 3-5 years to protect the existing paints and stains on the shingles, clapboards, and trim.

Cedar Shingles – A Staple in Lakeville: Cedar shingles are so popular because they offer durability with a classic New England look. In Lakeville, most homes contain shingles, often on at least one or more sides of exteriors. Many Lakeville residents like to let their shingles weather or grey over time – this is a classic look that gets better with age. We also can coat your shingles with a semi-solid or solid stain to protect your cedar shingles from the Lakeville elements and help prevent them from getting gray. Stains are protective and beautifying as stains seep into your cedar shingles to protect them.

What’s that black stuff on my shingles? Yes, your cedar shingles are a ripe habitat for mold and mildew. We recommend power-washing them with a mold-killing detergent before coating them with the stain. Of course, if your shingles are in a damp or shady side of your home, the mildew will grow again. As a precaution, we recommend trimming trees so that there is the sun shining on your shingles for at least part of the day.  The more sunlight on your cedar shingles, the better.

We have a separate Commercial Painting Division too:

Lakeville businesses, medical offices, religious facilities, restaurants, property managers, shops, and facility managers have worked with CertaPro Painters for years.

And if your Lakeville business needs to remain open while we’re painting, we offer night and weekend work at no extra charge – this way, business is not disrupted by the painting we’re doing.

Our commercial department wants to know what’s important to your company or residents and matches the paint and application to those needs.  For example, we can use scuff-resistant paint in high-traffic areas like schools and microbicidal paints that kill germs in restrooms.

To schedule a commercial painting quote or to ask us questions about your commercial painting or carpentry project, call Dave Rowell at 781-422-1018 or email him at [email protected]