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Exterior painting and coatings

Exterior painting and the specified coating systems that go with it. The preparation is scoped, priced and done before any coating goes on.

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Performed in Clifton · Ewing · Bridgewater · South Plainfield

  • NJ HIC 13VH13745900
  • Public Works 753861
  • Fully insured
Scaffold across the full front elevation of a Clifton, NJ retail building during exterior stucco restoration
Clifton, NJ

  • Prep is the job

    Surface preparation and substrate repair happen before any coating goes on, because paint over a failing substrate fails with it.

  • Tenants stay trading

    Storefront and retail elevations are painted across tenanted property without closing the units.

  • The owner's assembly

    Where the owner names a waterproofing system, it is that system, primer and two coats, not a substitute.

Where we have done it

  • Scaffold across the full front elevation of a Clifton, NJ retail building during exterior stucco restoration

    Retail plaza exterior restoration

    Clifton, NJ · General contractor · 5 frames

  • The same elevation from further back, the anchor building and its forecourt under construction

    Retail plaza exterior restoration, frame 2 of 5

  • Storefront range at the plaza with work under way at the far end

    Retail plaza exterior restoration, frame 3 of 5

  • Before: the long side elevation in its existing condition, staining and weathering across the full run

    Retail plaza exterior restoration, frame 4 of 5

  • Before, detail: painted masonry on the side elevation showing the condition of the existing finish

    Retail plaza exterior restoration, frame 5 of 5

  • The finished side elevation of a New Jersey Department of Transportation building in Ewing, new coating carried across the block field and every window resealed

    New Jersey Department of Transportation facility

    Ewing, NJ · Subcontract · 3 frames

  • Work under way on the front elevation, scaffold up, windows and entry doors masked off and sealant repairs running across the block field

    New Jersey Department of Transportation facility, frame 2 of 3

  • The finished front elevation, recoated block and brick piers with the Department's painted seal on the gable, the Department's own service vehicles parked at the entrance

    New Jersey Department of Transportation facility, frame 3 of 3

  • Completed vinyl siding in Bridgewater, NJ

    Exterior siding and gutter replacement

    Bridgewater, NJ · General contractor · 3 frames

  • Siding and trim detail

    Exterior siding and gutter replacement, frame 2 of 3

  • Completed elevation with new gutters

    Exterior siding and gutter replacement, frame 3 of 3

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Each entry is a project on our register. Nothing here is a reference job we cannot name the town for.

  1. 01

    Retail plaza exterior restoration

    Clifton, NJ · General contractor

    Exterior painting across the storefront elevations and the anchor building of a tenanted retail plaza in Clifton, at elevated access.

    Open

  2. 02

    New Jersey Department of Transportation facility

    Ewing, NJ · Subcontract

    Loxon primer and a two coat Loxon XP waterproofing system over prepared block and brick in Ewing, to the coating system the State specified. Windows resealed throughout.

    Open

  3. 03

    Exterior siding and gutter replacement

    Bridgewater, NJ · General contractor

    Exterior door and shutter finishing alongside the siding work in Bridgewater.

    Open

  4. 04

    Exterior restoration

    South Plainfield, NJ · General contractor

    Entry door, cabinetry and trim restoration in South Plainfield.

    Open

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What the work covers

  • Surface preparation and substrate repair before any coating goes on.
  • Specified waterproofing systems, primer and two coats, where the owner names the assembly.
  • Storefront and retail elevations painted across tenanted property.
  • Trim, fascia, soffit, door and shutter finishing.
  • Color matched into the existing run.

Reference

What you are looking at

Pick the one closest to what is in front of you. This is the part worth reading before anyone gives you a number.

01

Peeling on masonry, and the water behind it

Coatings on block, brick and stucco fail from the back far more often than from the front. Masonry takes on water and gives it back up, and a film that will not let vapor through traps that movement at the coating line until the paint lifts away in sheets with a clean, chalky face underneath it. A wall being wetted by a gutter, a coping or a failed joint will push any coating off it, however well that coating went on. In that case the paint was never the defect, and putting more of it back changes nothing.

02

Chalking

Run a gloved hand down an older elevation and it comes away powdered. That is the binder in the coating broken down by ultraviolet light, leaving loose pigment sitting on the surface. It is normal at the end of a coating life, and it is also a release layer: anything applied over it is sitting on powder rather than on the wall. Chalk has to be washed back to a sound face before primer, and how much of it is left behind is what decides whether the new work holds.

03

Preparation that was skipped

Most coating failure is preparation failure, and it is usually visible without a ladder. Paint applied over a glossy, chalky or dirty surface releases in sheets. Mildew painted over grows back through the new film. Sealant that had already failed splits again with the joint, and the fresh finish around it makes the split more obvious than it was before. Preparation is the part of the work that decides the outcome, and it is the first part cut when a number has to come down.

04

A coating asked to do a repair

Paint is not waterproofing, and no coating bridges a live crack for long. Where the substrate is cracked, released or holding water, the coating telegraphs all of it back, and the elevation reads worse than it did before, because a uniform new finish shows every defect underneath it. Substrate work comes first and the coating goes on after. A waterproofing system is an assembly, a specified primer and specified coats at a specified film thickness, not a thicker can of paint.

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Questions we get asked

Why does paint keep peeling off my block wall?
Usually because the wall is wet from behind, not because the paint was poor. Masonry carries moisture, and a coating that cannot let vapor out fails at the bond line and lifts in sheets. Before anything is recoated the source gets found: a downspout discharging onto the wall, a coping or sill with no drip edge, a failed sealant joint, or grade sitting up against the base. Putting the same film back over the same water gets the same result.
Do I need a waterproofing system, or is exterior paint enough?
It depends on what the wall is doing and on what the specification calls for. On a block elevation taking weather, a system means a specified masonry primer and specified coats of a waterproofing coating, applied at the film thickness the manufacturer sets, over a properly prepared surface. Where an owner or an architect names the assembly, that assembly is what goes on and no substitution is offered. The block and brick at the Ewing facility were coated that way, to the system the State specified.
Is the preparation part of the scope, or does it come as an extra?
It is scoped and done before any coating goes on, and it is written out rather than left as a line reading prepare as necessary. That means naming what gets washed, what gets scraped back, what gets primed, which sealant is cut out and replaced, and what substrate work happens first. A coating proposal with no preparation detail in it is a proposal to paint over the problem.
Can storefronts be painted while the tenants are open?
Yes. The storefront elevations and the anchor building at a tenanted retail plaza in Clifton were painted at elevated access, staged so the units either side of the work stayed reachable. What makes that work is sequencing by elevation and agreeing access before the lift goes up, so entrances stay usable and nobody finds on a Saturday morning that their door is behind scaffold.
Can a faded color be matched, or does the whole elevation have to be redone?
Color is matched into the existing run on the wall rather than to a chart, which is the only way to get close to a finish that has weathered. It is easier across a broad, evenly weathered field and hardest where one elevation has taken far more sun than the others. Where a match will not hold up, carrying the coating to a natural break in the building reads better than a patch that is close but not right.
The stucco is cracked and we want it painted. Can that be one job?
One scope and one crew, yes, but not one step. The cracking is dealt with in the substrate first, joints are cut out and resealed, and only then does primer go on. Painting a cracked elevation makes it look solved until the first wet season. Keeping both under one scope is also how responsibility stays in one place if a crack shows up again.
What about the trim, the fascia and the doors?
They are part of the same scope, and they are usually the parts that fail first, because they take the weather and the handling. Trim, fascia, soffit, doors and shutters are prepared and finished along with the elevation. Exterior door and shutter finishing was done alongside the siding work in Bridgewater, and entry door, cabinetry and trim restoration in South Plainfield.

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Enduring On LLC · New Jersey general contractor

Home improvement

13VH13745900

NJ Div. of Consumer Affairs

Public works

753861

NJ Dept. of Labor

New home builder

0058509

NJ Dept. of Community Affairs

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Clark, New Jersey

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(908) 887-3118

Fully insured, with certificates and additional-insured endorsements issued on request. Registered with the New Jersey Department of Labor to perform public work at prevailing wage.

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