Who does power wash & decks in Somerville, MA?
EA Paint & Light Carpentry, Inc. does power washing & deck staining in Somerville, MA, from Northborough, about 28.2 miles away. The median Somerville home was built in 1938 and 83% predate 1980, so the preparation drives the price more than the square footage. One insured crew paints and replaces rotted wood on the same written estimate. Call (508) 466-5846.
What Somerville houses are built out of — and why it changes the price
Somerville has about 37,054 homes across 4.1 square miles of Middlesex County, and the median one was built in 1938. That makes it a largely pre-war city: clapboard and cedar shingle over old-growth framing, plaster walls on wood lath, and original single-glazed sash. 83% of the housing here went up before 1980 and 16% of the buildings are detached single-family homes.
That is not trivia. It decides which products go on the wall, how many hours the preparation takes, and whether the job is governed by the federal lead rule. An estimate for power washing & deck staining that does not start from the age of the house is a guess with a number attached.
Power Washing & Deck Staining on a pre-war house
Low pressure, always
A pressure washer will strip pre-war clapboard to fibre and drive water behind the boards, and on a house this age that is how you get paint failure a year later from the inside out. It is a soft wash — cleaning solution, dwell time, low-pressure rinse — not a lance held close.
Washing a lead-painted exterior
Water carries lead as readily as dust does. On a pre-1978 house the run-off is controlled and the ground is sheeted, rather than letting it soak into the garden.
Porches rather than decks
Houses of this age have covered porches with tongue-and-groove fir floors, not pressure-treated decks. They are finished with porch and floor enamel, not deck stain, and they need the boards dry through — not surface-dry — before anything goes on.
Free on-site estimate in Somerville, with the prep itemized rather than assumed.
Lead paint in Somerville
Roughly 83% of Somerville'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.
What is included
- House soft washing — vinyl, clapboard, shingle and stucco
- Mildew, algae and pollen removal
- Gutter face and downspout cleaning
- Decks, porches, stairs and railings
- Fences, pergolas and arbors
- Walkways, patios, steps and pool surrounds
- Deck stripping, brightening and sanding
- Semi-transparent, solid stain and clear sealer
How far Somerville is
Somerville is about 28.2 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.
Written, itemized, fixed price. Nothing discovered in week three.
The rest of what we do in Somerville
- Interior Painting in Somerville
- Exterior Painting in Somerville
- Light Carpentry & Wood Repair in Somerville
- Cabinet Painting & Refinishing in Somerville
Or see everything on the Somerville page, and the full power washing & deck staining page for how we work generally.
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