# Meriden Refurbishment Services | Gagnon

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Last updated: 2026-09-09T21:40:47.464Z

> Surface refurbishment in Meriden, CT — water stains, smoke damage, damaged drywall and textured ceilings. Independent of insurers. Call 860-793-2200.

## Surface Refurbishment Services in Meriden, CT

Gagnon Painting & Decorating has been maintaining painted surfaces for over 40 years. Refurbishment covers the damage that ordinary repainting cannot hide: water stains, smoke damage, water-damaged drywall, and textured ceilings that have cracked or come loose.

No one at Gagnon Painting & Decorating LLC is affiliated with any insurance company. We work directly for you.

## What kind of damage do we see most in Meriden?

Ceilings, and usually water. Of Meriden's 26,585 housing units, 20,042 were built in 1979 or earlier and 7,093 predate 1940 — so a large share of the city's ceilings are either original plaster on lath or a mid-century textured finish applied over it. Both fail visibly and neither responds well to being painted.

Plaster on lath cracks along the lath lines and, once it has been wet, loses its keys — the plaster that squeezed through the lath gaps and holds the whole surface up. A ceiling in that state can look intact from below while being held largely by paint. Textured ceilings fail differently: the texture debonds in patches, and any attempt to spot-paint it leaves a visible repair.

We repair or remove textured ceilings, repair water-damaged drywall, and remove smoke odours and stains. We maintain painted surfaces per PDCA standard. What we do not do is mold or fungi testing, abatement, remediation or air sampling.

Housing figures: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates.

## Meriden refurbishment questions

## Damaged surfaces in Meriden?

Call for a free estimate and a written summary quote on your first visit.