Color worked out with you, premium lines that hold their sheen, and cabinet-grade spray finishes you have to touch to be sure they are paint.
Interiors, cabinets, exteriors and stain work, finished to a standard you can inspect from a foot away.
Walls, ceilings, doors and trim. Furniture covered, floors protected, and the room put back the way we found it.
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Washed, scraped, sanded and primed before a drop of color goes on — because exterior paint fails at the prep, not the paint.
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Doors removed, degreased and sprayed off-site or in a sealed booth on site. A factory-smooth finish, not brush marks on your kitchen.
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Cleaned, brightened and left to dry properly before stain goes down. Rushed staining is why the last one lasted a season.
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Cracks, nail pops, patched holes and matched texture — fixed before painting, so the wall reads flat instead of advertising the repair.
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Offices, common areas and turnovers, scheduled around your hours so the work happens when nobody is trying to use the room.
Learn moreRoom by room or wall by wall. We look at what is under the old paint, because that is what decides the price.
Surfaces, prep, primer, number of coats, and the product line by name. One price, and what would change it.
Furniture moved and covered, floors down, trim and glass masked, plants and hardscape sheeted outside.
Wash, scrape, sand, fill, caulk and prime. The part nobody sees is the part that decides how long it lasts.
We go around together in daylight with a pot of paint still open. Anything you point at gets fixed then, not scheduled.
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Drag the slider. Nothing moved and nothing was replaced — the difference is filler, sand, primer and two coats put on in the right order.
"Three quotes, and theirs was the only one that said what prep they were doing. It was not the cheapest number on the day and it was the cheapest job in the end, because nothing had to be redone."
"I have two small kids and a dog and I was dreading the mess. They masked everything each morning and swept up every evening. I could not tell they had been in the house apart from the walls."
"The cabinet doors came back looking like they came off a shelf. Four years on and the kitchen still gets comments — no chips around the handles, no yellowing."
"Three quotes, and theirs was the only one that said what prep they were doing. It was not the cheapest number on the day and it was the cheapest job in the end, because nothing had to be redone."
"I have two small kids and a dog and I was dreading the mess. They masked everything each morning and swept up every evening. I could not tell they had been in the house apart from the walls."
"The cabinet doors came back looking like they came off a shelf. Four years on and the kitchen still gets comments — no chips around the handles, no yellowing."
Most of our work is in Clackamas County and the neighborhoods around it. Exterior slots fill up before the dry season, so if you are thinking about the outside of the house it is worth calling early — inside, we work year round.
Almost always prep and coats. A low bid usually means one coat over whatever is there now, minimal sanding and no primer — which looks fine for a month. Ask every bidder to write down the prep, the primer and the number of coats, and the quotes stop looking so different.
It depends on surfaces, condition and how much repair the old paint is hiding, and anyone who quotes you before walking it is guessing. What we will promise is a free walkthrough and one written price afterwards — with the line items visible, so you can see exactly what you would be giving up if you went cheaper.
Furniture gets moved to the middle and covered, floors get protected, and trim, glass and hardware get masked before anything opens. Outside, plants and hardscape are sheeted. We clean up and sweep at the end of every working day rather than at the end of the job.
We name the brand and the product line in the quote rather than writing 'premium paint', and we will tell you where a cheaper line is genuinely fine and where it is a false economy. Ceilings and closets are not the place to spend; a south-facing exterior and a kid's hallway are.
No. Plenty of our jobs run while people are at work, and you get the same crew each day rather than whoever was free. We will agree how we get in and how we lock up before the first morning.
A few rooms is usually days rather than weeks; a full exterior depends as much on weather as on the house. You get real dates before we start, and a call the same day if the forecast moves them.
Dry, mild weather — which around here means the season books out well before it arrives. Interior work is unaffected, so if the outside has to wait for a slot, the inside does not have to wait with it.
Yes — CCB #245901, bonded and carrying full liability and workers' comp coverage. Documentation available on request.
Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Gladstone, Sellwood, Happy Valley, West Linn, Oregon City, and Lake Oswego.
Written for homeowners comparing quotes and trying to work out which one is actually the cheapest.
Interior Painting
The total at the bottom is the least useful number on the page. Four things to make every bidder write down, and what it means when one of them won't.
Exterior Painting
Paint almost never fails because of the paint. Washing, scraping, sanding, caulking and primer are the job — the color is the last two days of it.
Cabinet Refinishing
Solid boxes and tired doors are the case for refinishing. Sagging frames and water-swollen particle board are the case against — and it is worth knowing which you have before you get quotes.
Bring us the room you have been apologizing for. We will talk through color and sheen, name the products we would use and why, and write down the prep it needs — then you decide, with no obligation and no follow-up calls.
This is a demonstration. A working version — answering from your own services and prices, day or night — is included with every Atlas9 site.