We No Longer Offer Full-Service Exterior Painting
After more than 15 years of exterior painting in Western New York, we have decided to stop offering this service. If you need the entire exterior of your home painted, Carrigan Painting is no longer the company to call. At this point, you may want to consider siding instead.
A complete exterior repaint is often north of $10,000, requires extensive washing, scraping, sanding, priming, caulking, and multiple finish coats. The labor, weather, scheduling limitations, dealing with nests of stinging insects, trying to safely set up equipment on uneven terrain, around landscaping, and increasingly narrow margins no longer make exterior painting a good fit for our company.
There is also the estimating. Bidding a dozen exteriors to land one job means spending roughly 12–18 hours providing unpaid estimates, with diminishing returns.
Properly covering a painting crew with liability and workers’ compensation insurance costs more in New York than in any other state. New York’s workers’ compensation system functions like a hidden tax on businesses that actually cover their employees (At the end of each year, all the money businesses put into the Workers' Comp fund, is moved to the general fund to be spent of other things). With more than 150 painting companies operating in Western New York, exterior painting has become a substantially better value for homeowners while becoming a worse business for legitimate, properly insured painting contractors.
If you are looking to get the exterior of your home painted, call one of the companies below.
We may still accept select smaller exterior projects, including garage doors and BILCO door refinishing. These projects are considered individually based on their condition, accessibility, and location.
The cost to refinish a set of BILCO doors starts at $1,200.00+ Tax, includes sanding them smooth, priming with oil primer, and top coating with oil paint (two coats). We do not use latex paint on BILCO doors.
Our focus is concentrated on ceiling repair, plaster and drywall repair, water-damage restoration, and interior painting. Spending two weeks doing extensive ladder work while restoring the exterior of a house simply doesn’t appeal to us anymore.
Looking for a Reliable Exterior Painting Contractor?
For complete exterior painting, we recommend contacting one of the independent local painting companies listed below: (We have worked with both companies)
- Kahuna Koatings Based in the south-towns, they service all of WNY including the City of Buffalo, and are 5 star rated on google. This is a straight painting company primarily focused on high end residential repaints.
- Paint of WNY Also serves all of WNY including the City, they have multple crews of truly professional painters who do great work. Paint of WNY is one of the biggest painting companies in the area.
These companies are independently owned and operated. Please contact them directly to confirm their services, availability, insurance coverage, and pricing.