Ceiling Painting in Ardmore, OK

Ceiling painting in Ardmore, OK brightens a room more than almost any other single job. Safe Choice Painting covers floors and belongings, fixes cracks and nail pops, seals water rings with a stain-blocking primer and rolls on an even flat finish without lap marks. We paint flat, textured and vaulted ceilings, in one room or the whole house.

Ceilings in mid-century Ardmore homes

More of Ardmore's homes were built in the 1950s than in any other single decade. Census estimates put that decade at about 19 percent of the city's housing. Ceilings in many of those houses were finished in plaster or early drywall, and seventy years of settling shows up as hairline cracks along seams and corners. Most of these homes are modest in size, with a median of 5.4 rooms per home citywide, so painting every ceiling in the house in one visit is often a practical way to make the whole place feel fresh. Before painting we open and refill cracks, reset popped fasteners and spot prime the repairs so they do not flash through the finish.

Taller ceilings in two-story homes

On the other end of the scale, the large two-story Colonial Revival, Neoclassical and Tudor homes on western Stanley Avenue in Highland Park can have tall ceilings, open stairwells and crown molding. Stairwell ceilings need planks or a stable ladder setup instead of a roller pole, and we plan for that at the estimate. Crown molding is painted after the ceiling, with a crisp line where the two meet, and tall walls under it are cut in by hand so the edge stays straight across the whole room. See high ceiling painting for how we handle height.

Water rings and storm leaks

A brown ring on the ceiling usually means a roof, flashing or plumbing leak above it. After the leak is fixed and the drywall is dry, the stain gets sealed with a stain-blocking primer, and then the whole ceiling is painted, not just the spot, because fresh paint on an aged ceiling never quite matches. If the drywall is soft or sagging, it needs repair first; see drywall repair in Ardmore.

Textured and popcorn ceilings

Orange peel and knockdown ceilings paint well with the right roller nap. Knockdown takes more paint than a flat ceiling, because the roller has to reach into every low spot, and we back-roll so the texture does not show bare patches when the light hits it from a window. Popcorn ceilings are different. The texture can loosen when it gets wet with paint, and once painted it is harder to remove later. If you are thinking about a smooth ceiling, look at popcorn ceiling removal in Ardmore and painted popcorn ceiling removal in Ardmore before painting over it.

How a ceiling job goes

1. Floors are covered edge to edge, and belongings are moved to the center and wrapped.
2. Light fixtures and smoke detectors are masked or loosened, and vents are covered.
3. Cracks and nail pops are repaired and primed.
4. Stains get a stain-blocking primer.
5. The ceiling is cut in at the edges and rolled in one direction to keep the sheen even.

Walls and the rest of the room

Ceilings are often painted with the walls and trim. See interior painting in Ardmore for full rooms, and the general guide is ceiling painting.

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