House Painters in Shrewsbury, NJ

Shrewsbury is a small Monmouth County borough, a little over two square miles, with one ZIP code, 07702. It became a borough in 1926, formed from part of Shrewsbury Township, but the crossroads at its center is much older. At the Historic Four Corners, where Broad Street meets Sycamore Avenue, the Allen House of about 1710 stands on the northwest corner. The Monmouth County Historical Association runs it as a museum furnished as the Blue Ball Tavern, its eighteenth-century name, and shares the intersection with Christ Church of 1769, the Quaker meetinghouse of 1816 and the Presbyterian Church of 1821.

That crossroads is the Shrewsbury Historic District, on the State Register since 1976 and the National Register since 1978, with 47 contributing buildings. The Allen House, Christ Church and the Wardell House of 1764 on Sycamore Avenue are also listed on their own. The borough adds its own review on top of those listings. The borough's land use code sends every application for development in a historic district, or on land with a historic structure, to the Land Use Board for a certificate of appropriateness, and lists the color scheme of buildings among the things the board weighs, with the stated aim that the district's existing character and appearance be preserved. Whether a like-for-like repaint counts as development is something to confirm with the borough before you pick a new color for a house in the district.

Outside the district the housing is a mix of ages. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 counts about 1,500 homes in Shrewsbury and dates 26 percent of them to the 1950s, the busiest decade, with another 19 percent from the 2010s and 14 percent from the 1990s. About 10 percent were built in 1939 or earlier, and 54 percent before 1980. The figures come from a sample, so on a borough this size treat them as approximate.

So the prep changes from house to house. On older painted wood we scrape to sound paint, replace failed caulk and prime bare spots, and point out soft sills or trim rather than painting over them. On a newer house it is more often builder-grade interior paint, nail pops and drywall seams, and trim on its first repaint. Kitchens with solid cabinet boxes can be refinished with a sprayed enamel instead of replaced. About half the borough's homes are old enough for the federal lead rule. The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule says a contractor paid to disturb more than six square feet of paint in a room, or more than twenty square feet outside, on a house built before 1978 must be certified. NJ Painting Co. is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified. On a pre-1978 Shrewsbury house where the job would go past those limits, a certified firm has to do that part, and we will say so before the work is scheduled.

We use premium Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams products throughout. NJ Painting Co. is family-owned and based in Morganville, and every Shrewsbury estimate is free.

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