Painting Services in Fenelon Falls, ON

Painting Boathouses and Waterfront Trim

Waterfront buildings around Fenelon Falls need more care than the same structures inland, and paint is a good example. A boathouse or the lake side of a cottage takes strong summer sun and then the damp of spring and fall. Bare end grain soaks up moisture, the wood swells and shrinks, and paint along the bottom edges and around trim starts to crack and flake well before the sheltered walls do.

On a boathouse, the work often starts at the end nearest the water, where the boards stay wettest. Any trim or siding that's gone soft gets replaced before paint goes anywhere near it, since primer won't hold on rotten wood. After that comes careful scraping back to well-bonded paint and a coat of primer on every bare patch, with end grain sealed too. A typical single-family house costs $2,500 to $6,000 on the outside, and a boathouse gets its own project quote.

Inside, the year-round homes around town get the treatment you'd expect from any careful house painter: patch, sand, cut in clean lines and roll two even coats. Trim and doors are often where an older paint job shows its age, with chipped gloss on baseboards and casings. Room pricing falls between $300 and $800, with size and prep making the difference, and a whole three-bedroom interior generally comes to $2,000 to $5,000.

Pedro handles interior and exterior painting. For how he approaches painting services in general, see our interior & exterior painting page.