Tudors, Colonial Revivals, Shingle-style houses and 1950s capes, many of them a century old or close to it. Exterior painting in Ridgewood is mostly about prep, detail and old paint.
NJ Painting Co. offers exterior painting services in Ridgewood, the Bergen County village of Tudors, Colonial Revivals, Shingle-style houses and 1950s capes. On houses that old, scraping back to sound layers, priming bare wood and pointing out soft sills takes longer than the finish coats, so our written Ridgewood estimates list the prep separately. We also repaint interiors and refinish kitchen cabinets, travelling up from our base in Morganville.
Ridgewood is a village of about five and three-quarter square miles in northwest Bergen County, incorporated in 1894 and home to just under 26,000 people at the 2020 census. Much of the village was built between the 1890s and the 1950s. The local history department of the public library traces the neighborhoods by date: Brookside from 1889, with Shingle-style and then Colonial Revival houses; The Heights, built out between 1892 and 1930; the Old Country Club area with its Tudor, Spanish Revival, Queen Anne and Craftsman homes; Floral Park from about 1910, known for foursquares, Craftsman houses and stone entryways; then Glen Acres, a 1938 development of Cape Cods, and The Lawns, more than four hundred capes from 1950. Tudor and Colonial Revival together make up about half the houses in The Heights alone.
That housing decides what an exterior job involves. A Ridgewood Tudor usually means stucco panels between dark half-timbering, often over stone or brick at the base, and the timbers and the stucco need different products and a careful line between them. Colonial Revivals and Dutch Colonials carry a lot of wood: clapboard or shingle, cornices, columns, dentils, multi-pane windows and shutters. On houses this age the paint has been built up over many decades, so the work is scraping back to sound layers, priming bare wood, pointing out soft sills and trim rather than caulking over them, and only then the finish coats. We use premium Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams exterior systems matched to each surface, and our written scope lists the prep separately so you can see where the hours go.
The Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 counts about 9,200 homes in the village and dates 38 percent to 1939 or earlier, 24 percent to the 1950s and 89 percent to before 1980, so the preparation takes far longer than the finish coats do and the site gets cleaned down every day rather than at the end of the week. The village also has a Historic Preservation Commission, and its code requires a historic preservation permit for changes to the exterior appearance of buildings in a historic district or on a designated historic site. In the online copy of that code we read, the permit covers a change visible from a public street, and exterior repainting is exempt only with the same color paint that exists legally. Separately, the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule requires a certified firm for paid work disturbing more than six square feet of paint in a room or twenty outside on pre-1978 housing. NJ Painting Co. is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified, so we say at the estimate when part of a job needs a contractor who is. If your house is in one and you are planning a new color scheme, check with the village first. We are glad to help you put the details together.
Inside, older Ridgewood houses often have plaster walls, original oak floors and stained or painted millwork. We repair damaged drywall and spot-prime the patches so they don't show, use a bonding primer where water-based paint goes over old oil-based trim, and can bring the staircase and banister back in the same project. Kitchens in the capes and colonials are frequent candidates for cabinet refinishing. NJ Painting Co. is a family-owned company based in Morganville, Monmouth County, and we travel up to Bergen County for jobs. We are licensed and fully insured, with more than twenty years in the trade. Every Ridgewood estimate is free and written, includes a color consultation, and the work carries a two-year workmanship warranty.
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The ones whose written scope shows the prep, since no independent ranking of Ridgewood painters exists to go by. On a village Tudor or Colonial Revival, ask how old layers are scraped, how the line between stucco and half-timber is kept, and whether soft sills are pointed out. NJ Painting Co. is family-owned, travels from Morganville, lists prep separately, and is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified for pre-1978 work.
On a Tudor, the stucco panels and dark half-timbering need different products and a careful line between them, often above a stone or brick base. Colonial Revivals carry clapboard or shingle, cornices, columns and multi-pane windows with many decades of paint built up. Either way the work is scraping back to sound layers, priming bare wood and pointing out soft sills before the finish coats. The village requires a historic preservation permit for changes to exterior appearance in a historic district or on a designated site, so check with the village before a new color scheme.
You may, if the house is in a historic district or on a designated site. In the online copy of the village code we read, a historic preservation permit covers a change in exterior appearance visible from a public street, and repainting is exempt only with the same color paint that exists legally. A new color scheme is therefore worth raising with the village before work starts.
Old, though not uniformly. The 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey counts about 9,200 homes in the village, 38 percent from 1939 or earlier, 24 percent from the 1950s and 89 percent from before 1980. Neighborhoods run from Brookside, begun in 1889, to the capes of The Lawns from 1950. The EPA's rule covers paid work on pre-1978 housing, and NJ Painting Co. is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified.
Because we are locally based in Morganville, we can usually schedule your free estimate within a few days and lock in a start date that works for you. Reach out and we'll find the soonest available slot for Ridgewood.
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