Gurnee is mostly homes built through the eighties and nineties on standard subdivision lots, which means a lot of first repaints coming due at once — original builder finishes reaching the end of their life. Closer to the Grand Avenue commercial strip we pick up retail and office work.
Cabinets are the highest-return painting job in a house and the least forgiving. Kitchen cabinets carry years of cooking grease, and anything sprayed over that will peel at the handles within a season. The work is degreasing, deglossing, sanding and priming with a bonding primer, then spraying rather than brushing so a flat door reads flat. Doors come off and get labelled so they go back where they started. A refinish runs a fraction of replacement and takes days rather than weeks.
Same written scope in Gurnee as anywhere else in Lake County — surfaces, products and coats named before anything is booked.
The Lake County painting year
Interior work runs every month. Exterior is weather dependent, so the spring slots go first.
How it works
We look at the surfaces, not just the rooms. Prep is what the number is built from, so it is what gets measured.
You get the surfaces, the products, the number of coats and the price in writing before anything is booked.
Interior any month. Exterior inside the season, not squeezed into the end of it.
We walk the finished work with you under real light and fix anything on the list before the final invoice.
Service area
Text a photo of the room or the elevation and we will scope it, or call and we will walk it through with you.
Questions
No. Gurnee is inside our regular service area and the price is built from the surfaces and the preparation, not the drive. We are across Lake County most days of the week.
By surface area and by the amount of preparation the surfaces need, which is the part that varies most between two houses that look similar. A wall that needs washing, filling, sanding and priming is several times the work of one that needs a coat. You get the scope in writing — surfaces, products, number of coats — so you can compare quotes on the same basis rather than on a single number.
Interior work runs all year, and January through March is the easiest time of year to book. Exterior work is weather dependent and needs surface temperature and dryness within range, so it runs roughly April through October in Lake County. We would rather tell you to wait for spring than put a coat on in November that fails by summer.
A single room is usually a day or two. A whole-house interior runs one to two weeks depending on how much trim and how much prep. A full exterior is typically one to two weeks, and the weather decides more than the crew does. You get a schedule up front, and you are told when it moves.
No. Interior work is done room by room so the house stays livable, and each room is put back at the end of each day rather than at the end of the job. If a kitchen is being refinished you will lose the use of the cabinets for a few days, and we plan that with you rather than around you.
Usually three to five days. Doors and drawer fronts come off and are sprayed away from the house, while the boxes are prepped and finished in place. You keep the use of the cabinet interiors for most of that; the doors go back at the end.
Text a photo of the room or the elevation and we will scope it. Fastest way to a number.
Text a photoCall (224) 944-8652