Interior Painting in Kenner, LA

It shows on north-facing walls and inside closets first, and it shows as a coating that will not hold, not as anything that looks like damp. So the first thing we do on an interior here is look for the cause, because paint applied over active moisture is a cosmetic fix with a one-season life and it generally looks worse the second time round than it did before anybody touched it.

Where the cause turns out to be ventilation, or a bathroom backing onto the wall, or a room that simply never gets opened up from June through September, that gets said out loud at the estimate, not discovered afterwards. We would rather tell you a wall is not ready. It is a shorter conversation than the one about why it failed.

The rest is ordinary careful work, done the slow way. Cut in by hand instead of taping, because a hand-cut line reads sharp from the middle of the room and a taped one often does not. Hardware off the doors and trim instead of cut around. Everything that stays in the room covered, and the room put back together before the crew leaves each evening so you keep somewhere to live while the work runs.

Through the mid-century stock in University City and Holly Heights, watch for walls that have been papered and then painted over more than once. That changes the preparation and occasionally changes the plan, so it is worth finding before the quote, not after.