Where we work
Our service area: Ottawa and Gatineau
We cover the region on both sides of the Ottawa River, Ontario and Quebec. Seventeen areas have a page of their own because the housing in them genuinely differs. If you are nearby and not sure whether we reach you, just ask.
How the service area actually works
There is no showroom. Our painters in Ottawa and Gatineau work at your property, so what decides a job is drive time and season, not a line on a map. Interior work runs all year.
Exterior work is planned around Ottawa’s outdoor window, because a coating needs warm weather to cure before the cold, and the window is short enough that booking early decides which month you get. The prep and timing behind it are on our page for exterior painting in Ottawa.
Two things change a painting job far more than distance: the age of the house and how it is serviced. A 1910 house in the Glebe and a 2015 house in Findlay Creek are ten kilometres apart and share almost no preparation work. One carries a century of coats on plaster; the other carries one thin builder coat over new drywall.
Much of what people call “out of town” here is not: the amalgamation of 1 January 2001 folded Richmond, Manotick, Greely, Stittsville, Kanata, Nepean, Gloucester and Orleans into one City of Ottawa. Greely is rural in servicing, not in municipality.
The map shows the region we cover rather than a storefront, because the work is done on site at your property.
What is different about the Quebec side
Ontario: one city since 2001
Everything on the Ontario bank is the City of Ottawa. Villages that governed themselves until the end of 2000, Richmond and Manotick among them, sit in the same municipality as Centretown. What varies is servicing: the urban area is on municipal water and sewer, the rural fringe largely on wells and septic.
Quebec: a different province, not a suburb
Gatineau is a Quebec city, formed on 1 January 2002 from Aylmer, Buckingham, Gatineau, Hull and Masson-Angers. Crossing the river changes the legal and tax basis of the work, not just the drive: construction contracting in Quebec is licensed provincially through the Régie du bâtiment du Québec, and a Quebec job carries Quebec sales tax rather than Ontario HST.
We confirm both before quoting, not after. Language is the other real difference: 71.1 per cent of Gatineau residents give French as their mother tongue. Reach out in whichever language you prefer.
Older housing and lead-safe practice
Four areas we serve have real concentrations of housing built before 1960: Hull, where Vieux-Hull is a dense post-1900 rebuild; Aylmer, where the rue Principale strip is 1830s to 1870s cut stone and hewn timber; the Glebe, where most houses predate 1914; and Richmond, whose core was settled from 1818.
Health Canada’s guidance sets the Canadian thresholds: a home built before 1960 probably contains lead-based paint, one built between 1960 and 1990 may have it on exterior surfaces, and consumer paints were virtually lead-free after 1990. Where we sand or scrape paint that old we use lead-safe practices: containment, careful handling and thorough clean-up. Findlay Creek and most of Barrhaven have no housing old enough for the question to arise.
Ottawa, Ontario
Each has its own page: the housing stock, the conditions, and the questions people there actually ask.
- Painters in Kanata
A new town, not an old village: first street laid out in 1964. Beaverbrook and Glen Cairn are 1960s and 1970s stock; Arcadia and Trailwest are current builds.
- Painters in Nepean
Inside-the-Greenbelt Nepean is 1950s and 1960s tract housing. Lynwood Village, Carleton Heights and Arlington Woods straddle Health Canada's 1960 line, so original trim gets lead-safe handling.
- Painters in Barrhaven
Almost nothing built before 1990 outside the oldest streets, and in exchange a large inventory of builder-grade finishes reaching their first real repaint.
- Painters in Orleans
About a third of residents give French as their mother tongue, so we plan in either language. Queenswood Heights is 1958; Avalon and Cardinal Creek are post-2000.
- Painters in Stittsville
Build eras are mapped street by street: Fringewood before 1980, Granite Ridge in the 1990s, Fernbank Crossing in the 2010s.
- Painters in Richmond
Laid out in 1817 and settled from 1818, so the core is older than the City of Ottawa. Outside it, rural lots take far more wind and sun on an exterior.
- Painters in The Glebe
Most houses predate 1914, so lead-based paint on original woodwork is close to a default assumption. Two heritage conservation districts sit inside it.
- Painters in Westboro
Seventy-one per cent of houses are detached and most were built 1900 to 1960: old stock in suburban form, with real driveway and rear-yard access.
- Painters in Downtown Ottawa
The densest area we serve, and the only one where the usual building is a condo rather than a house. Service elevators and building rules set the schedule.
- Painters in Gloucester
Not a neighbourhood but a former city of roughly 300 square kilometres, from Beacon Hill out to Riverside South. Name your neighbourhood and the estimate sharpens.
- Painters in Manotick
An 1864 mill village with split servicing: central water and wastewater in the core and on Long Island, private wells and septic west of Mud Creek.
- Painters in Findlay Creek
The newest housing here. Development began in 2002 and runs to 2027, so lead paint does not arise and the job is a first repaint over thin builder coats.
- Painters in Greely
Half-acre to two-acre lots, 32 km south of Parliament Hill, on private wells and septic except Shadow Ridge, one of six City-run communal well systems.
- Painters in Riverside South
The first homes went up in 1996 on former Gloucester farmland, so lead paint does not arise outside Honey Gables, three streets from about 1950.
- Painters in Carp
- Painters in Vanier
- Painters in Blackburn Hamlet
- Painters in Navan
- Painters in Cumberland
- Painters in Rockcliffe Park
- Painters in Centretown
- Painters in Hintonburg
- Painters in Old Ottawa South
- Painters in Alta Vista
Gatineau, Quebec
- Painters in Gatineau
A different province, not a suburb. The city was formed on 1 January 2002 from five municipalities; 71.1 per cent give French as their mother tongue.
- Painters in Hull
The oldest part of the region, founded in 1800 and rebuilt after the 1900 fire. Vieux-Hull is dense and largely pre-1960; Le Plateau beside it is modern.
- Painters in Aylmer
The historically anglophone sector. The rue Principale strip is 1830s to 1870s cut stone and hewn timber, sitting a century inside Health Canada's 1960 line.
Also in the service area
No page of their own yet. Same service area, same seasonal and servicing rules.
Vanier
Urban since it incorporated as a town in 1913, on small lots with narrow frontages. No reliable build-era breakdown exists, so we check per address.
Alta Vista
Annexed from Gloucester Township in 1950 and built out from the 1950s: Faircrest Heights, Applewood Acres and Elmvale Acres.
Hintonburg
Two dated layers: late-1800s wood clapboard north of Wellington, 1910s and 1920s brick-veneer frame south of it.
Old Ottawa South
Mostly Craftsman, with American Foursquare from the 1920s and 1930s. It grew after annexation in 1907 and the Bank Street Bridge in 1912.
Carp
A nineteenth-century village core on City communal well water and the municipal trunk sewer, not the wells and septic people assume.
Navan
Private wells and septic throughout, with an 1898 limestone church and the 1876 Shaw House in the core and acreage around it.
Cumberland
Named among the main flooded locations in Ottawa during the record 2019 flood, so low-lying properties carry flood-plain constraints.
Rockcliffe Park
The whole village is a Heritage Conservation District, but its plan puts painting and paint colour among the alterations that need no heritage permit.
Blackburn Hamlet
Roughly 80 per cent of its 3,203 homes were built between 1961 and 1980, so exterior finishes are on their second or third cycle.
If your address is not named here, that is not a no. Ask when you request your free written estimate and we will tell you plainly whether we reach you.