House Painters in Brick, NJ

Brick Township was created by the Legislature in 1850, the same year as Ocean County, and the Ocean County Historical Society records that it was named for its most prominent resident, Joseph W. Brick, owner of the Bergen Iron Works. Its mainland addresses fall mainly in two ZIP codes, 08724 and 08723. The state's post-Sandy recovery report says Brick has the most privately owned waterfront of any municipality in New Jersey, 53.2 miles in all: 1.79 miles of ocean front on the barrier island, 39.5 miles of river front and 11.93 miles of bay front. Of roughly 45,000 structures in the township, more than 10,000 are in the floodplain.

Census estimates for 2020 to 2024, from the American Community Survey, count about 33,300 homes in Brick and make the 1970s the busiest decade, with 24 percent of them, followed by the 1980s at 18 percent. Altogether 59 percent were built before 1980, and about 3 percent before 1940. The Historical Society dates the town's real growth to the opening of the Garden State Parkway, when residential and commercial development took off.

The water decides most exterior jobs. The recovery report describes ocean-front structures on the barrier island as catastrophically damaged or destroyed by Sandy, and the state standard afterward was to elevate homes at least one foot above FEMA's advisory base flood elevation, with the township adopting a new flood damage prevention chapter in 2013. Raised and rebuilt houses along the lagoons, the Metedeconk and the bay leave tall walls of vinyl or fiber-cement, new trim with cut ends to prime, and salt and open-water wind on the waterside elevations. We wash off salt and mildew before any prep, scope the water-facing walls separately, use vinyl-safe colors on vinyl, and prime chalked aluminum so a finish coat has something to hold onto. Premium Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore coatings from the top of the range, not the middle, are what last this close to the water.

With three homes in five built before 1980, the federal lead rule is part of most estimates. Federal law, in the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule, requires firm certification for paid work that disturbs over twenty square feet of exterior paint, or over six square feet in any one room, on housing built before 1978. NJ Painting Co. is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified, so where trim or siding needs scraping or sanding past those limits, that part of the job belongs with a certified contractor, and we will flag it when we quote. If your home is in a condominium or adult community, check the association's rules on exterior colors and contractors first.

Inside, trim, doors and ceilings that have taken decades of wear change a room more than people expect once the drywall repairs are done first, and cabinet refinishing gives a like-new kitchen without replacement. NJ Painting Co. is family-owned and based in Morganville, and every Brick estimate is free and comes with a written scope.

We also have dedicated pages on kitchen cabinet refinishing in Ocean County, exterior painting in Ocean County and interior painting in Ocean County.