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  Plaster Bulge Repair We determined we needed a bigger roller After the walls and ceiling were coated, we began to patch with DiamondCoat Plaster All patched up. On Friday we skim coat the ceiling, and Monday we prime everything. These are all plaster patches. The pink stuff is a bonding agent for the plaster This is what can happen when you open up a small plaster bulge. The paint lost adhesion to the plaster and peeled the plaster finish off the walls and ceilings. Problem is the peel didn't stop. It came off in sheets. Once you start, it won't stop. Update 5-10-24 So we primed the walls and ceiling with oil primer, and then skim coated a few areas that we were not happy with. We knew there would be a bit of skim coating due to the amount that came off. More to come! If your looking for real plaster repair , Carrigan Painting is the only painting company in Western New York doing this kind of work. Give us a call!  716-697-3560

This home was built 15 years ago and this is the first time it has been repainted. We repaired minor damage to the walls and ceilings, spot primed our repairs, then painted the ceilings, walls trim and doors 2 coats.  We have found painting ceilings 2 coats makes the ceilings look better. So its now company standard to do everything two coats. Book Your Free Quote Today! 716-697-3560

Its not you,  Google search results are unhelpful  - On purpose! I have contemplated posting this since late March of 2024. Don't want to come off as whining, but I feel like people outside the sphere should know. We were in the top 10 of results for multiple keywords (searches) now we are on page 5, or not ranking at all for those keywords. Websites are ranked by keywords. When you search for "painter near me" - that phrase is a keyword. These are my observations after spending the last year working on our website to make it better. Google does what are called Core Updates 3-4 times a year. That last Core update in March, pretty much de-ranked our website across those keywords Everyone claims that its all about content, good helpful content. I have spent hundreds of hours creating one of a kind content for our website. I have typed out over 25,000 words creating good helpful content for my clients/potential clients. Some of which is turning up on AI generated websites th

We are re-painting the entire interior of this home.

 We started this project repairing major water damage to plaster ceilings and walls in this home. Once the damage was repaired, the homeowners decided to have us skim coat the affected ceilings and repaint the rooms. These are those photos.  More can be found in these two posts: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/2024/04/modernizing-old-swirl-ceilings-from.html And then the repairs: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/2024/03/multiple-plaster-ceiling-repairs-in.html Interior House Painting 4-12-24

  This home had a swirl texture that was created with paint. These ceilings were not the traditional sand swirl texture found in many homes around Buffalo.  You can see the swirl in the photo below. This is the first coat. Tomorrow we will go back and apply the second coat of drywall mud to the ceilings. Once they are dry, we will sand the ceilings. Then prime the ceilings with oil base primer due to all the ceilings having water damage which we repaired on a previous trip .  These water stains will burn through latex paint, and may require multiple coats of shellac primer to get acceptable coverage. Which is why we will use an oil primer. Prime + Paint = stains Gone! More to Come! Skim Coating by Carrigan Painting Here are the left overs from today. We are pretty quick at skim coating however it is very labor intensive and tiring. Tomorrow we will sand the ceilings we skim coated, and then prime them. The primer we are using is an oil base primer due to the extensive water damage thes

 Plaster Repair in Amherst, NY Carrigan Painting is the only local painting company specializing in plaster repairs At Carrigan Painting, we specialize in plaster repairs like this one.   Trying to capture this plaster damage in photos proved more difficult than I anticipated. Anyways we removed the loose plaster, and the rotted out metal lath from a previous repair  The metal lath is from a another plasterer (probably my dad) from a long time ago (decades). Looks like they forgot to load basecoat on his truck, because the previous plasterer did the entire repair with finish coat plaster. That is why the wood lath is white. We had to be careful as there wasn't much holding up this ceiling. Most of the plaster keys were broken, and the lath nails rotted away. This was obvious due to the movement of the previous repair. Plaster isn't supposed to move when you push on it. Once the old plaster was removed, we installed metal lath directly to the existing wood lath. Almost all of ou