# New Britain Power Washing | Gagnon Painting

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Last updated: 2026-09-09T21:36:17.306Z

> Power washing for New Britain, CT homes and rental property. We clean without stripping paint from older wood. Call Gagnon at 860-793-2200.

## Power Washing in New Britain, CT

Gagnon Painting & Decorating has completed thousands of jobs safely since 1977, using state-of-the-art equipment to blast away grit, grime and contaminants. In New Britain, where 82.9% of the housing was built in 1979 or earlier, the judgement that matters is how much pressure a surface can take.

We do not strip paint with pressure washing. On late-Victorian wood that is a deliberate limit, and it protects the thing you are paying to keep.

## What can go wrong washing a New Britain house?

The West End nomination lists exactly the features that suffer: mixed bevel-and-shingle siding on one elevation, decorative shingle-work, gable half-timbering, tiled roof crestings and turned porch columns. Every one of those is a place where water at pressure either gets behind the material or removes it.

Behind is the bigger risk. Shingle courses and half-timbering create laps and joints that shed falling rain perfectly well but were never designed to resist a jet aimed upward. Water driven into those joints has no quick route out, and it comes back later as failed paint, or as rot inside a member that looked sound.

The second risk is grain. Softwood raised and furred by high pressure gives the next coat a rough, absorbent surface, which shortens the life of the paint you are about to pay for.

So washing here is a cleaning step ahead of a coating step. It removes what would stop paint bonding. Removing paint itself is slower, done by hand and tool, at the pace the substrate allows.

## New Britain power washing questions

## Need a wash before the paint goes on?

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