# Waterbury Interior Painting | Gagnon Painting

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Last updated: 2026-09-09T22:41:53.484Z

> Interior painting for Waterbury, CT homes and apartments. EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm, painting Connecticut interiors since 1977. Call 860-793-2200.

## Interior Painting in Waterbury, CT

Gagnon Painting & Decorating has painted Connecticut interiors since 1977, and Waterbury sits just west of our Southington shop. Roughly 76% of the city's homes were built before 1980, so interior work here usually begins with an honest conversation about surface preparation. We are an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm.

Waterbury is Connecticut's fifth-largest city, and its interiors are not one thing. A Queen Anne on the Hillside slope, a Colonial Revival off Columbia Boulevard and a third-floor apartment in a wood triple-decker each want a different approach to prep, primer and finish. We quote the room in front of us, not a formula.

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## Why does lead-safe preparation come up so often in Waterbury?

Because of when the city was built. Of Waterbury's roughly 49,956 housing units, about 38,063 — 76.2% — were built in 1979 or earlier, and 15,395 of them predate 1940. That is a high pre-1940 share, and it is a direct consequence of the brass era: the industry that built this housing was founded in 1802 by Abel and Levi Porter, who moved to Waterbury from Southington.

The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule requires that anyone paid to disturb paint in a home built before 1978 be a certified firm using lead-safe work practices. That is not a formality we mention to sound careful — it changes how a room is masked, how surfaces are sanded, and how the site is cleaned at the end of the day.

Figures are from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020-2024 five-year estimates.

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## Planning interior work in Waterbury?

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