The specialists Nepean calls for stipple ceilings, oil-painted trim and 1970s kitchens.
Ottawa House & Cabinet Painting works throughout Nepean — Bells Corners, Centrepointe, City View, Craig Henry, Arlington Woods, Qualicum, Manordale and the Merivale corridor. Interior and exterior painting, cabinet refinishing, popcorn and stipple ceiling removal, and drywall repair, all with a free on-site estimate and a 2-year written guarantee.
Nepean is a completely different painting job from the new subdivisions further south, and pricing it like one is how homeowners here end up disappointed. These are mostly 1960s through 1980s bungalows, splits and two-storeys, which means textured stipple ceilings, oil-based trim that will peel if you put latex straight over it, plaster and older drywall that needs real repair first, and kitchens with solid wood cabinets worth refinishing rather than replacing. The prep is the job in Nepean. The painting is the easy part.
Largely 1960s–1985 construction — bungalows, side-splits and back-splits, two-storey singles and mature townhome complexes — with 1990s and 2000s infill through Centrepointe and Parkwood Hills.
Every community in Ottawa has its own housing stock and its own recurring problems. These are the ones we see most in Nepean.
The most requested job in Nepean. We scrape the texture, repair and skim the ceiling underneath, then prime and paint it flat white so it reads as a proper smooth ceiling. Homes built before 1980 may contain asbestos in the ceiling texture, so we test before scraping rather than after.
Baseboards, casings and doors in Nepean homes of this era were almost always finished in oil. Painting latex directly over cured oil is why so much DIY trim work peels within a year. We degloss, use a bonding primer, and then finish in a modern waterborne enamel that stays hard and does not yellow.
The solid oak and maple cabinet boxes in these homes outlast anything sold today. We spray the doors off-site in a controlled environment and finish the boxes in place, so you keep the cabinetry and lose the dated finish.
Nepean exteriors run to cedar siding, aluminum siding, wood soffit and fascia, and stucco — all of which need different preparation and different coatings. We wash, scrape, spot-prime bare wood, and caulk before anything else goes on.
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No charge, no obligation, and a written fixed price before any work starts.
Stipple ceiling removal generally runs $3.50 to $7.00 per square foot of ceiling, depending on how many coats of paint are already on the texture and how much skim-coating the ceiling needs afterward. Ceilings that have been painted over are more work to strip than ceilings that never were. We confirm the price on-site before starting.
Ceiling texture applied before roughly 1980 can contain asbestos, which is a real consideration in older Bells Corners, City View and Craig Henry homes. We arrange testing before any scraping begins. If a sample comes back positive we will tell you and refer you to a licensed abatement contractor rather than disturbing it ourselves.
Yes, and it takes about thirty seconds. Rubbing denatured alcohol on an inconspicuous spot will soften latex and leave cured oil alone. We check this at the estimate, because it changes the primer we specify and it is the difference between trim that lasts fifteen years and trim that peels next winter.
We do, and those older pockets are most of our Nepean work. Bells Corners, Qualicum, Manordale, City View and Arlington Woods are all inside our regular service area with no travel charge.