Interior and exterior painting in Hamilton
We paint homes across Hamilton, and here more than almost anywhere else in our service area, the housing stock decides the job. About one in three Hamilton homes predate 1960, and close to one in six predate 1946, concentrated in the lower city rather than in Ancaster, Glanbrook, Stoney Creek, or Flamborough.
Lead paint, handled the Ontario way, not the American one
The "pre-1978" cutoff that shows up in most search results is American, from a US ban that has no force in Ontario. Canada's current limit on lead in coatings sold here is 90 mg/kg, a rule about new paint, not about what already sits under an older Hamilton home's finish coats. Ontario instead classifies lead work by expected dust exposure: removing a lead-containing coating with a power tool fitted with effective HEPA dust collection is the lowest exposure category, and the identical tool without that dust collection is two categories worse. We work to the low-exposure method as standard, not as an upsell.
Stipple ceilings and old joint compound
A friable texture coat in an older Hamilton house may be asbestos-containing, and removing more than a square metre of it is treated as higher-hazard work under Ontario's asbestos regulation, with the duty to test resting on the homeowner before any tender is requested. We do not sell whole-ceiling stipple removal as a routine painting add-on in this city; we test first, then plan the work around the result.
Lath and plaster, and Hamilton's designated streets
Provincial guidance names lath and plaster, common throughout Hamilton's pre-1950s housing, as a typical example of the older wall assemblies its suite rules were written around, and it behaves differently under a patch than drywall does. Durand's own heritage inventory shows roughly two-thirds of its addresses built between 1867 and 1929, and Dundas carries its own designated Cross-Melville district, so a heritage check is worth doing before repainting a street-facing exterior in either area.
Ceiling height, and the rest of the room
Ceiling height still moves the number here the same way it does citywide: a 9 ft room adds 10 to 15 percent, a vaulted space more again. Pair a repaint with our kitchen renovation work in Hamilton or basement renovation in Hamilton, and see everything else we build across our Hamilton service area.
Nearby, we also take on painting in Oakville and interior and exterior painting in St. Catharines.
Above the brow the difficulty is usually reaching the wall rather than preparing it, which painting in Ancaster goes into, while the former Flamborough subdivisions are hitting their first proper repaint cycle all at once, covered on interior painting in Waterdown.
