Paint peeling in sheets
Large flakes on clapboard or porch ceilings usually mean moisture or old oil paint under latex. Scraping and priming the cause matters more than the color.
Painters and paperhangers, Quincy and Norfolk County
Paint and wallpaper for Quincy houses, prepped right to the last seam
Old plaster, layers of lead-era paint and a hundred-year-old two-family are what most of our jobs look like. We strip, repair and prime before a drop of finish goes on, then paint or hang paper that stays put through Massachusetts winters and salt air off the bay.
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40Painting and paper services
41Neighborhoods and towns
2Trades, paint and paper
Half-drop matchPlumb line first, then every drop matched at the seam.
Brands we work with: Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, California Paints, Farrow & Ball, PPG, Fine Paints of Europe, Cabot, Zinsser, York Wallcoverings, Thibaut, Schumacher, Phillip Jeffries, Graham & Brown, Roman.
We buy paint and paste by the job, most often Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and California Paints for walls and trim, Cabot for shingles and decks, and papers from York, Thibaut and Schumacher when the homeowner has not already chosen a pattern.
Quick answer
For painting or wallpaper in Quincy, call (617) 576-8235 any hour. We walk the house, test old paint and plaster, and give a written estimate. Typical figures run from about $685 to $1,465 per room for interior painting and $74 to $157 per single roll hung for wallpaper hanging, with exterior repaints priced by the house.
Every painting and wallpaper job, under one phone number
Interior rooms, whole-house exteriors, paper hanging and removal, specialty plaster finishes and commercial repaints. Pick the work and read exactly how we do it.
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Interior Painting
02 / 11 services
Exterior Painting
03 / 8 services
Wallpaper & Wallcovering
04 / 6 services
Specialty & Historic
05 / 5 services
Commercial & Multi-Unit
Signs your walls or siding are ready for us
The six things we hear about most on first calls, and what each one usually means.
Paper seams lifting
Curling seams and bubbles show the paste or the wall prep has failed. Small spots can be re-glued; widespread lifting needs stripping and a sized wall.
Chalky or faded siding
Rub your hand on the siding. White powder on your palm means the old paint has broken down and new paint will not stick without washing and priming.
Cracks in old plaster
Spider cracks and bulges over doors point to plaster pulling off the lath. Reattach and patch before paint or paper or the cracks come back.
Turnover between tenants
Scuffed walls, smoke film and nail holes between leases. A fast, consistent turnover finish gets the unit shown sooner.
Soft window sills and trim
Push a key into the sill. If it sinks in, rot has started. We cut out or consolidate the soft wood before any paint goes on.
How many rolls of wallpaper will your room take?
Paper is sold by the roll and printed in batches, so ordering short is the most common and most expensive wallpaper mistake. A second order rarely matches the first dye lot, and a visible color shift on one wall is hard to live with.
Our calculator works the way our paperhangers count: by strips, not square feet. It takes your wall height, the pattern repeat printed on the label and the match type, works out how many full drops each roll yields, and adds a spare for trimming and future repairs.
Want the long version? Read how many rolls of wallpaper a room needs, or open the full wallpaper calculator page.
Roll count wallpaper calculator
Set your room size and press the button. The count includes trim allowance, pattern matching and a spare roll.
How a job runs, drop by drop
Paperhangers hang one drop at a time, square to a plumb line. We run every job the same way: one finished step before the next.
Walk-through and testing
We measure every room or elevation, test old paint, check plaster and siding, and note the prep each surface needs.
Written estimate
You get the scope room by room or side by side, the products, the prep and the schedule in writing before any work starts.
Protect and contain
Floors, furniture and plantings are covered. On pre-1978 surfaces we set up plastic containment and mist instead of dry sanding.
Repair and prime
Plaster is reattached and patched, rot is repaired, old paper is stripped, and every surface gets the primer it needs.
Finish coats or paper
Two finish coats, or wallpaper hung from a plumb line with matched seams and trimmed edges.
Clean up and walk the job
We clean, put the rooms back, and walk the work with you so touch-ups are done before we pack the ladders.
The houses Quincy is made of, and what each one needs
Most of the older housing went up between 1890 and 1960. Each house type fails in its own way, so each gets its own prep.
Two-families and triple-deckers
Stacked porches, tall side walls on tight Wollaston and Quincy Point lots and tenants on every floor. We stage one side at a time and paint porches level by level.
Triple-Decker Painting
Victorians
Wollaston Hill and Milton Hill houses carry brackets, shingles and spindles that need hand scraping, careful glazing and three-color schemes.
Historic Home Painting
Shingle cottages by the bay
Houghs Neck, Squantum and Adams Shore cottages take salt wind every winter. Cedar gets washed, brightened and stained before the trim is painted.
Cedar Shingle Staining
Colonials and Tudors
Milton, Needham, Wellesley and Newton houses with plaster walls and papered dining rooms, where interior prep decides how the finish looks.
Interior Painting
Capes, ranches and splits
South and West Quincy, Braintree and Norwood houses from the postwar decades: vinyl over clapboard, wide fascia, and kitchens ready for new cabinet color.
Exterior House PaintingWhy homeowners call a painter who also hangs paper
Most painting companies turn wallpaper down, and most paperhangers will not touch a ceiling. In an old Quincy house the two jobs meet in every room: the paper has to come off before the plaster can be fixed, and the plaster has to be right before anything looks good on it.
That is why Cranston Paint & Wallcovering keeps both trades together. The same people who strip a parlor scrape the porch, so the prep never falls between two contractors and you are not waiting on one crew to finish before the next can start.
We buy paint and paste by the job, and you can bring your own paper. Read more about how we work.
Planning numbers, not quotes40 services pricedin one sortable table
Every service page lists a typical Quincy range and what moves it. The cost guide puts them side by side.
What a paint job in Quincy usually costs
Three things drive almost every price we write: how much prep the surface needs, how hard it is to reach, and whether old paint has to be handled lead-safe. A bedroom with sound walls is quick. A plaster stairwell with failing paper is not.
Open the painting and wallpaper cost guide or call (617) 576-8235 for a written estimate.
Painting across Quincy and the towns around it
We cover every Quincy neighborhood, the Norfolk County towns south and west of the city, and the MetroWest towns from Newton to Hopkinton.
Cities and towns
- Quincy
- Braintree
- Milton
- Dedham
- Needham
- Wellesley
- Norwood
- Westwood
- Canton
- Stoughton
- Sharon
- Walpole
- Medfield
- Millis
- Norfolk
- Dover
- Newton
- Natick
- Framingham
- Holliston
- Hopkinton
- Ashland
- Sherborn
- Wayland
- Weston
- Sudbury
- Waltham
- Watertown
- Southborough
See the full service area, including Norfolk and Middlesex counties
Questions people ask before they call
Do you hang wallpaper as well as paint, or do I need two different companies?
Both trades work under one roof here. Our paperhangers strip old paper, repair and skim the plaster, prime, and hang the new paper, and our painters handle the ceilings and trim in the same room. One schedule, one estimate and one point of contact for the whole job.
How soon can a painter look at my Quincy house?
Call (617) 576-8235 at any hour and we will book a walk-through, usually within the week and sooner for leaks, rental turnovers and closings. The walk-through is where we measure, test the old paint and plaster, and write up the scope and price.
My Quincy two-family was built before 1978. Can you still paint it?
Yes. Most older houses in Quincy and the Norfolk County towns predate 1978, so we treat old paint as if it contains lead: plastic containment, misting instead of dry sanding, HEPA vacuums and a careful wipe-down before we leave. It adds some time and cost, and it keeps the dust out of your home.
Which towns outside Quincy do you cover?
We work in every Quincy neighborhood, the Norfolk County towns from Braintree, Milton and Dedham out to Walpole, Medfield and Dover, and the MetroWest towns from Newton and Waltham to Framingham and Hopkinton. Type your ZIP into the checker on this page to confirm your street.
Can you paint or paper a business without closing it?
Usually. Offices, shops and restaurants get early morning, evening or weekend crews, low-odor coatings and a phased plan so one section stays open while another is masked off. Tell us your hours on the first call and we build the schedule around them.
What is the best season for exterior painting around Quincy Bay?
Late May through early October is the reliable window, when nights stay above about 50 degrees and the morning dew burns off early. Near the water we start later in the morning and watch the wind. We book exteriors through the winter so the spring calendar is set, and keep interior and wallpaper work running all year.
From our decorating tips
Practical guides written from what we see on Quincy-area jobs.
Why exterior paint peels on New England houses, and the fix
Peeling paint on a Quincy-area house is a symptom, not the problem. Here are the moisture sources, ice dams, failed details and old oil layers behind it, and how a repaint deals with each cause.
Read the guide
Wallpaper or paint on old horsehair plaster walls
Old plaster walls in Quincy and Norfolk County houses are wavy, cracked and patched, and the choice between paint and wallpaper decides how much of that you'll see once the room is done.
Read the guide
Period exterior paint colors for Quincy and South Shore homes
A style-by-style guide to exterior color schemes that suit Quincy's Colonial Revivals, Wollaston Hill Victorians, bay-side shingle cottages and two-families, plus how to research and test one.
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- Phone
- (617) 576-8235
- Hours
- Answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Office
- 212 Crescent Ave, Cranston, RI 02910
- Coverage
- Quincy, Norfolk County and the MetroWest towns west of Boston