Interior Painting in Palo Alto, CA | Junior Elite Services

Prep-first interior painting for older Palo Alto homes

About 70% of Palo Alto's 29,241 housing units were built before 1980, and 13.3% date to 1939 or earlier. That matters for paint. Federal lead rules apply to paid work that disturbs painted surfaces in homes built before 1978, and scraping or sanding old trim counts as disturbing it. Older walls also carry decades of layers, so the prep usually takes longer than the painting.

When you text photos of the rooms, include the year the house was built and point out any peeling spots. We move and cover furniture, patch, caulk and prime before the first coat, and work room by room if you're living there. Sanding and other loud prep stay inside the city's construction hours, which rule out Sundays and City holidays.

Worth knowing about Palo Alto

The Palo Alto NOAA station averages a summer high of 78.8°F and a winter low of 39.7°F, with 12 days a year at 90°F or more.
In the February 1998 San Francisquito Creek flood, more than 1,100 Palo Alto homes flooded and Highway 101 was closed.
Joseph Eichler built some 2,700 homes in Palo Alto, mostly in the central and southern parts of the city that grew quickly after World War II.

Rooms we do in Palo Alto

Walls and ceilings
Trim, baseboards and doors
Closets and hallways
Accent walls

Photos from our painting jobs

Everything we do for interior painting

Living room with a tiled fireplace, wood-trimmed windows and new wood-look plank floor — New floor through the living room.

Freshly stained deck boards and steps with wire mesh railing panels — Deck boards restained.

Bedroom painted gray with bright white baseboards and new wood-look plank floor — Gray walls, white baseboards, new floor.

What customers say

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Junior and his crew were awesome to work with. Junior was always on time, respectful, thoughtful, and meticulous in his work. He is genuinely a kind soul and a great human - as were all his crew members. The work was very fairly priced. He always showed up when he said he would and he never kept me guessing. I would strongly recommend his group. For reference, he did a full interior remodel/refresh of our condo: floors, kitchen, walls, and bathrooms.

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Value for money and flexible to work with. Would definitely hire them again, for all jobs around the house.

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Painting in Palo Alto: questions

Do you work in Palo Alto?

Yes. Palo Alto is about 22 road miles from our base in San Bruno, roughly 31 minutes without traffic. We work all over town, from Professorville to Charleston Meadows.

Who issues permits in Palo Alto?

The City of Palo Alto Planning and Development Services (Building Division). Repairs and like-for-like replacements often don't need a permit; layout changes, new plumbing or new electrical usually do. When one is needed, the job is contracted through our licensed partner Bay Builder Inc.

When can noisy work happen in Palo Alto?

Construction, deliveries included, is allowed 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, with no construction on Sundays or City holidays. We schedule noisy work inside those hours.

Do you repair the walls before painting?

Always. Holes, cracks, dents and loose tape get fixed and primed first. It's in the estimate, not a surprise at the end.

Interior painting in Palo Alto