# Plainville Refurbishment Services | Gagnon

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Last updated: 2026-09-09T21:48:04.678Z

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

## Surface Refurbishment Services in Plainville, CT

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

No one at Gagnon Painting & Decorating LLC is affiliated with any insurance company. We work directly for you, not the insurer.

## In Plainville this is usually a drywall job, not a plaster one

That distinction matters more than it sounds, because the repair method is completely different.

Only 808 of Plainville's 8,588 homes predate 1940. The overwhelming majority were built between the 1940s and the 1970s, which puts them firmly in the drywall era. Drywall fails differently from plaster: it swells and delaminates where it has been wet rather than cracking along lath lines, and the paper facing loses integrity once soaked. A drywall ceiling that has taken water usually needs the affected board cut out and replaced rather than filled, because filling a delaminated sheet produces a repair that fails again at the first humidity change.

Textured ceilings are the other recurring item, for the same demographic reason — sprayed and stippled finishes were close to standard through those decades. We repair or remove them, per PDCA standard.

Texture removal disturbs a large painted surface, and 66.3% of Plainville homes were built in 1979 or earlier, so it is lead-safe work. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm. We do not perform mold or fungi testing, abatement, remediation or air sampling.

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

## Plainville refurbishment questions

## Damaged surfaces in Plainville?

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