Serving Clients Since 1977
Commercial Painting in Waterbury, CT
Gagnon Painting & Decorating has worked on Connecticut commercial property since 1977. Waterbury is the state's fifth-largest city, with a downtown built for a manufacturing economy and now doing something else, which is exactly the situation that generates commercial repainting work.
We are fully licensed and insured, a member of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America, and BBB accredited. CT Registration H.I.C. #0564200.
Our Commercial Painting Services Include:
Property types
- Office Painting
- Retail Storefront Painting
- Restaurant Painting
- Sanitary Hospital, Nursing Home, and Medical Institutions
Systems and finishes
- Commercial Interior and Exterior Painting
- Epoxy and Concrete Floor Coating
- Commercial Wallcovering Installation
- Rigid Wall Panel Installation
- Graffiti Removal
What kind of commercial building are we usually looking at in Waterbury?
Older, masonry, and built for a different purpose than it serves now. Waterbury is the Brass City — its motto is Quid Aere Perennius, what is more lasting than brass — and the first brass rolling mill in the United States was founded here in 1802 by Abel and Levi Porter, who had moved to Waterbury from Southington. Brass employment peaked near 50,000 and had fallen below 5,000 by the 1980s.
What that leaves is a downtown of substantial nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial fabric — the National Register lists both a Downtown Waterbury and a Bank Street historic district — much of it now in retail, office, restaurant and institutional use. Practically, that means masonry painting and sealing, storefronts that have been altered several times, and interiors that have to stay open while work happens.
We schedule commercial work around your operating hours rather than ours. For a restaurant or a medical facility that is not a courtesy, it is the whole feasibility of the job.
Waterbury commercial painting questions
Can you work around our opening hours?
Yes, and for most Waterbury commercial work it is the only sensible way to run the job. Retail storefronts, restaurants and medical facilities all have hours where painting is either disruptive or impossible, so the schedule gets built around the business rather than the crew. Tell us your constraints at the estimate stage and they go into the quote.
Do you paint medical and institutional facilities?
Yes — sanitary hospital, nursing home and medical institution work is part of what we do. Those environments have requirements ordinary commercial painting does not: coating selection that stands up to repeated cleaning, containment that protects occupants who cannot simply leave, and scheduling around clinical use of the space.
Is a pre-1978 commercial building covered by the lead rule?
It can be. The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule covers housing and child-occupied facilities — which includes preschools and childcare centers — built before 1978, so a commercial building housing one of those uses is in scope. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm. Given that 76.2% of Waterbury's building stock dates from 1979 or earlier, it is worth establishing at the estimate rather than mid-job.
Commercial property in Waterbury?
Call for a free estimate and a written summary quote on your first visit.