What began as a way to share photos of our work outside social media, has become a large, well-organized library of interior painting and ceiling repair projects completed in Western New York between 2024 and 2026. With over 120 case studies and hundreds of project photos, The Carrigan Archives documents real-world conditions, challenges, professional repair methods, and the results.
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Ceiling Painters Always look up.
We are re-painting the entire interior of this home. Carrigan Painting Related posts: Why We Always Do Two Coats: A Fresh Repaint in Willow Ridge Estates, Amherst NY At Carrigan Painting, we just wrapped up a full interior repaint for one of our repeat clients in Willow Ridge… read more
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Interior House Painting Part 3
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 […] read more
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Skim Coating Ceilings – From Texture to Smooth in 3 Rooms – Part 2
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 […] read more
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Plaster Restoration and Painting of Small Foyer in Snyder NY.
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 […] read more
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Vaulted Ceiling Crack Repairs and Painting
Today we are repairing some cracks around a ceiling beam. Because the cracks are largely superficial, we opted to not open them up too much. We did however chip out the loose drywall and filled in the affected area with Durabond. Once the Durabond was set, we skim coated the area with Dust Control drywall […] read more
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Popcorn Ceiling Removal, Skim Coating & Painting
Removing Popcorn Ceiling Texture & Painting We are doing more and more of these! Thankfully, this ceiling has never been painted so the popcorn texture came off with relative ease with some water. However toward the end, our sprayer broke which prevented us from removing all of the texture in one go.During removal, and the […] read more
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Multiple Ceiling Repairs in Cheektowaga NY – Part 1
Multiple areas in this home require ceiling repair work as the result of water leaks. After the water damage is repaired, we will be skim coating the affected ceilings to make them smooth, and then painting said ceilings. This area was bad, the plaster was literally falling off the ceiling. Trying to show this […] read more
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Documented Expertise in the 716
Almost every job Carrigan Painting has completed since mid 2024 is posted to this archive.
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Funny how many plaster and drywall repair “experts” materialize when the economy cools down. We’ve been fixing ceilings and restoring plaster the whole time, backed by the most extensive collection of case studies of real projects in WNY.
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