Painting Chester.
For the sailing families and the waterfront restorations — a 32-minute run down the coast to the fan deck.
A shoreline village.
Chester sits at the head of Mahone Bay, looking out at islands. Sailing week fills the harbour every August; the rest of the year it’s a quiet coastal village with a mix of year-round homes, second properties, and grand waterfront houses that have been in families for generations. The buildings we paint here range from small century cottages to sprawling shoreline estates — the shared factor is exposure.
Anywhere the wind comes off the water in Chester, salt gets on the paint. That means the paint you buy needs to be specified for it. So do the primers, the caulking, and the way the exterior is prepped. Cutting corners with a general-purpose exterior paint on a Chester waterfront house is a two- or three-year decision, not a ten-year one.
For customers running boathouses, docks, and marine wooden gear, we stock what holds up on the shore — see products below.
Products we recommend for Chester.
For waterfront exteriors — clapboard, shingles, trim, doors, window sashes — Dulux Weathershield with an appropriate primer. The pigment package is built for coastal UV, and the film flexes with wood movement through freeze-thaw. On heritage shoreline properties, we spec the full system so nothing peels within the first winter.
For boathouses, docks, decks, and any exterior wood that lives closer to the water than the house does, we recommend Wood-Pride Solid Stain. It’s built for exactly this — salt, UV, freeze-thaw — and recoats without stripping in the future.
For interior finishes in heritage waterfront homes, Dulux Diamond covers plaster and modern drywall equally well. Lower-VOC Lifemaster is worth specifying if the family lives in the house year-round.
See the full Dulux lineup or the heritage colours page for older-property colour work.
32 minutes from Chester.
Half an hour down the coast to 161 Montague Street, Lunenburg. For bigger orders on a Chester project, call ahead — we’ll tint the whole lot before you arrive so the pickup is quick. Open Mon–Sat, 8 to 4.