Painting

In addition to plaster work, I offer interior painting services, as does virtually everyone else. 

If something sets me apart, it's that I'm a "New York City Painter." That means a few things:

 In New York, if you weren't fast, neat, careful and good, you didn't work. 

I don't spray, I use brush and roller exclusively. 

Unless a space is too tight (see above, 'careful'), I don't tape. A good painter should be able to cut a straight, clean line with a brush, and you can't get that by taping off. Taping/spraying is fine for new construction where everything is nice and straight, on older houses, it's a square peg into a wavy hole. 

I protect floors with building paper (hard floors) or plastic (carpet) then canvas. 

I'm more than comfortable working where people live (in NYC, people (and their things) don't really have anywhere else to go). 

Related to the above and the plaster thing, I create minimal dust with my patching because, again, people are living there. 

Though it's not related to the quality of work, there was a premium put on painters who weren't scary. I still come to jobs in street clothes and change into work clothes for work and back again into street clothes to go home. I don't throw, bang, yell, slam, talk on the phone indoors, crank the radio, or do anything that wouldn't minimize my presence any more than the inevitable. 

email: chris@uptownplaster.com