Who paints houses in New Salem, MA?
EA Paint & Light Carpentry, Inc. paints houses in New Salem, MA — interior, exterior, and the rotted wood behind the paint — from Northborough, about 36 miles away. A registered Massachusetts corporation carrying liability and workers' compensation insurance. Free written, itemized, fixed-price estimate. Call (508) 466-5846.
What we see on New Salem houses
New Salem has about 528 homes across 44.8 square miles of Franklin County, and the median one was built in 1971. That makes it a largely seventies and early-eighties town: splits, raised ranches and garrison colonials, with rough-sawn cedar or T1-11 plywood siding and the first generation of pressure-treated decks. 65% of the housing here went up before 1980 and 93% of the buildings are detached single-family homes.
On New Salem houses that mostly means two things worth looking for: chalking on old oil-based exteriors that will take a new coat straight off the wall if it is not washed and bound down first, and T1-11 that has delaminated along its grooves.
Recent work
See the full galleryPhotographs of our own jobs from across the service area — not stock, and not somebody else’s work.
Painting services in New Salem
- Interior Painting in New Salem
- Exterior Painting in New Salem
- Light Carpentry & Wood Repair in New Salem
- Cabinet Painting & Refinishing in New Salem
- Power Washing & Deck Staining in New Salem
Free on-site estimate anywhere in New Salem, usually within a couple of days.
Lead paint and the age of New Salem housing
About 65% of New Salem's homes predate 1980, so on most jobs here the age of the house decides how the work runs before anything else does. Federal law treats housing built before 1978 as lead-bearing, and disturbing paint in one means contained prep, HEPA extraction and wet methods rather than dry scraping. It is slower and it is not optional. Ask any contractor bidding your job how they intend to handle it — the answer tells you a great deal.
How far New Salem is, and what that means
New Salem is about 36 miles from Northborough — about an hour out, which is toward the edge of where we work. We come out here for full exteriors, whole-house interiors and carpentry that is worth a crew's week — not for a single bedroom, because the drive would cost you more than the painting. The estimate is still free, and if the job is too small to be worth your money we will say so on the phone.
Why New Salem homeowners hire one company for both
The single most common way an exterior job in Central Mass goes sideways is discovering rot after the staging is up. Then you are calling carpenters, waiting three weeks, paying two mobilization fees and watching the weather window close.
Because EA Paint & Light Carpentry, Inc. is set up for light carpentry as well as painting, that whole detour disappears. The soft sill, the split clapboard, the blown-out corner board — found at the estimate, priced at the estimate, repaired by the same crew that paints it.
One crew, one schedule, one company answering for the result.
Local, insured, and easy to check
We are not a franchise territory and not a Boston outfit driving out for the day. Edio Aguiar runs the crews out of Northborough, MA 01532. EA Paint & Light Carpentry, Inc. has been registered with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since February 2022, and we carry liability and workers' compensation coverage. Ask us for the certificate before you sign anything — and ask every other contractor bidding your New Salem job for theirs.
Ask for the certificate of insurance before you sign anything.
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