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 125 case studies and thousands of project photos, The Carrigan Archives documents real-world conditions, challenges, professional repair methods, and the results.
First: Don’t panic! The most important thing you can do is gain control over the situation. That starts by poking a hole in the ceiling and letting the water out. Make sure you have a bucket, a trash can. The goal here is control where the water goes. You may not be able to stop […] read more
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
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 Painting 4-12-24 […] read more
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
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
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
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 […] read more
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
In a world of AI created content, when the human element of information disappears into the abyss of forgotten history, when lived experience is flattened to please a faceless algorithm, documentation remembers history. – Dave Carrigan Jr. February 18, 2026. The Carrigan Archives.
