House Painters in Waretown, NJ

Waretown is the main community in Ocean Township, the Ocean County one, not the township of the same name in Monmouth County. Most people simply call the whole place Waretown. It takes its name from Abraham Weair, who came here around 1737 with a group of Rogerine Baptists and stayed to run a sawmill after the colony moved on. For most of its history it was a bay town of fishing, gunning, boatbuilding and cranberry bogs, between Forked River to the north and Barnegat to the south. Route 9 runs through the middle, the Garden State Parkway has an exit here, and Albert Music Hall keeps the Pine Barrens music tradition alive on Saturday nights. A free estimate in Waretown starts with which side of Route 9 you are on, because the bay side and the pine side are hard on paint in different ways.

East of Route 9, the streets closest to the water get the full weather off Barnegat Bay: salt, humidity, and wind across open water. Salt residue on siding will lift a new coat of paint, so we wash the walls and let them dry before scraping or priming. The bay-facing walls are scoped separately from the sheltered sides because they wear far faster, and we put the toughest finish on the sills, rails and trim tops where water sits. If your house has been raised since Superstorm Sandy, a job that used to be done from a stepladder now needs proper staging, and we plan for that in the estimate.

West of Route 9 the township reaches into the Pinelands, and the problem is shade and damp. North walls under pitch pine and oak stay wet for days after rain, mildew comes back quickly on any surface painted without cleaning, and soft wood shows up at fascia ends and sill joints. We wash the mildew off, let the wood dry properly, point out soft wood instead of caulking around it, and use mildew-resistant premium Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams finishes on those walls. Much of the housing on both sides of the highway is ranches and cottages from the 1950s through the 1980s, and on trim that has been recoated that many times the scraping and sanding take longer than the painting does, with the site swept down at the end of every day.

The Township of Ocean is about 21 square miles with 3.62 miles of Barnegat Bay coastline, and about 64 percent of its land, everything west of the Garden State Parkway, is in the Pinelands. Its Strategic Recovery Planning Report lists 87 properties with substantial damage from Sandy, most east of Route 9 along the bayfront, counts 2,807 residential structures in flood hazard areas, and says the township applied for funding to elevate 203 homes. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 counts about 4,400 homes in the township, with 21 percent from the 2000s, 17 percent from the 1950s and 15 percent from the 1960s; 46 percent were built before 1980. Federal rules require a certified firm for paid work past six square feet of paint in a room or twenty square feet outside on a pre-1978 home, and NJ Painting Co. is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified, so we will say when that applies.

Inside, Waretown homes are a mix of year-round houses and seasonal places, and both need crews who turn up when they say, work clean, and use low-odor paint so rooms can be used that evening. We repaint interiors, refinish kitchen cabinets to a factory-smooth finish without the cost of replacement, repaint ceilings, trim and interior doors, and pour epoxy garage floors that stand up to sand and winter salt. NJ Painting Co. is family-owned and based in Morganville, licensed and fully insured, with more than twenty years in the trade. Every Waretown estimate is free, includes a color consultation, and the work carries a two-year workmanship warranty.

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