Interior painting and popcorn ceiling removal in Arlington, TX (76010)

The 76010 area grew up quickly between the 1950s and the late 1970s. You'll find single-story brick ranches with painted wood eaves, small frame homes, duplexes and many two-story apartment complexes with wood or hardboard siding. Inside, acoustic popcorn ceilings, paneled dens and heavy orange-peel walls are common. South Arlington, by contrast, is mostly 1980s to 2000s brick homes with HOAs. For an older 76010 interior, that usually means ceiling texture removal, skim coating or retexturing, a stain-blocking primer over old water marks and a scrubbable finish that can stand up to tenants or kids.

Popcorn texture in pre-1980 homes can contain asbestos, so the first thing we do is have a sample tested. If it comes back clear, we mask walls with plastic floor to ceiling, cover floors and shut off the HVAC to keep dust out of the ducts. The texture is misted with water, given a few minutes to soften and scraped with a wide blade.

After scraping, the ceiling underneath is rarely smooth. We tape any loose seams, skim the low spots, sand at 150 grit and prime with a high-build drywall primer. Then you choose: a smooth flat finish, a light knockdown or a fine orange peel to hide minor waves. A typical 1,500 sq ft single-story ceiling runs roughly $2,350 to $4,900, depending on testing results, room heights and how much skim work is needed.

Student housing and small rental properties around the university turn over every summer, often within a few days. We work from your move-out list: patch nail holes and wall anchors, seal water marks under bathroom ceilings with an oil-based stain blocker, repaint walls in one standard color and refresh doors and trim.

Owners with several units usually standardize on one wall color and one trim color so touch-ups stay simple. We'll note the colors and sheens on a card left in each unit's utility closet, so the next turnover matches without guessing.

• Nail holes and anchor holes patched and spot primed
• Water stains sealed with an oil-based stain blocker
• Walls in eggshell, trim and doors in semi-gloss
• Colors recorded for future touch-ups

Homes near AT&T Stadium, Globe Life Field and Six Flags see heavy traffic and street parking on event days. When we're painting the outside of a house in that zone, we check the event calendar and avoid booking ladder work or deliveries on those afternoons.

On brick homes there, the usual exterior job is trim, fascia, soffit and garage door rather than the brick itself. We scrape loose paint, replace soft fascia sections, caulk gaps where the trim meets brick and apply two coats of acrylic in a satin finish.