Exterior Painting in Longport, NJ

Full-exposure exterior systems for the windiest end of the island.

Longport sits where the ocean, the bay and Great Egg Harbor Inlet meet, and wind carries salt across the whole town rather than dropping it on the first row of houses. Inland towns get a sheltered elevation they can under-spec; here there isn't one. We price all faces as exposed, and give the inlet- and seawall-facing surfaces the heaviest treatment because they take spray directly.

Corrosion is the second issue that separates this town from the rest of the island. Railing systems, fasteners, light fixtures, hurricane hardware and exposed metal flashing rust quickly at the point, and rust bleeding through a fresh coat is a permanent-looking failure. Those elements get wire-brushed or mechanically cleaned, treated and primed with a corrosion-inhibiting primer before any finish coat.

The rest is the discipline that makes a coastal exterior last: a mildewcide wash with full dry time, scraping to a sound edge, priming bare substrate the same day, caulking every sill, cap and butt joint where wind-driven rain can drive in, and two full coats laid down at proper film thickness inside the temperature and dew-point window.