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If your home needs a paint job, and you just don’t have the time, a painting contractor can do the work quickly and professionally.
You probably know the basics already: don’t paint on a marred or dirty surface. A good painting contractor however gets better results than most of us because they understand the importance of preparing the surface.
A qualified painter should invest more than half his time preparing the wall surface to be painted. He should wash, patch, scrape, sand, and caulk all surfaces before the first ounce of paint touches the wall. He should also use an undercoat or primer to seal the surface.
Your painting contractor needs to be experienced and know exactly what type of paint is best for different projects. He should know the quality of different types of paint and know which will flake and blister, and which are completely scrubable — a big help if you have kids and pets.
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The eastern end of North Carolina juts out from the East Coast of the United States into the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, making the state prone to Atlantic hurricanes, which tend to strike the state every three to four years. Running along the entire coast of North Carolina, serving as a buffer against the Atlantic, is a long chain of barrier islands (the Outer Banks), with constantly shifting sand dunes, from which project three famous capes—Hatteras, Lookout, and Fear. Between the islands and the shoreline stretch lagoons—Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound are the largest—that receive the Chowan, Roanoke, Tar, Neuse, and Cape Fear rivers. Wilmington, the chief port, is at the head of the Cape Fear estuary. The mainland bordering the sounds is low, flat tidewater country, often swampy, even beyond the Dismal Swamp in the north. In the upper coastal plain the land rises gradually from the tidewater, reaching 500 ft (152 m) at the fall line.
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