Condo Painting throughout Burlington, MA.

Burlington is mostly a single-family town, but not entirely. Census figures show 2,331 housing units, 22.5% of the total, in buildings with five or more units, and 974 of those sit in buildings of 50 units or more. The town master plan places most multi-family housing along the Route 128 corridor in the south, and describes the condominium developments as mostly one- and two-bedroom units near Route 128 and commercial areas.

That shapes the work. A two-bedroom condo is a smaller job than a house, but it comes with more rules: when contractors can arrive, where to park, which elevator to use, how hallways are protected, and what the association has to approve first.

For unit owners

Inside your unit, you generally choose the colors. Before scheduling, check your master deed and rules for anything on contractor hours, noise, or approval for work in the unit. We plan around those rules and send the association whatever paperwork it requests ahead of time.

• Certificate of insurance. An association or property manager may require a COI naming them as certificate holder before a contractor may enter. AJ Painting is licensed and insured and can provide one.
• Hallway and elevator protection. We cover the path from the entrance to your door and keep materials inside the unit, not in the corridor.
• Low-odor products. Shared ventilation and close neighbors make low-VOC paint the sensible default.
• Rental turnovers. Census data show 25.8% of occupied homes in town are rented. If you own a unit you lease out, we can repaint between tenants on a tight window.

For boards and property managers

Common areas take a different kind of planning. Lobbies, stairwells, corridors and doors are used every day, and the work has to be phased so residents always have a clean, safe route through the building. We can work hallway by hallway or floor by floor and post notices ahead of each phase.

When exterior trim, railings and doors are association responsibility under the master deed, we can bid those alongside interior common areas so the board gets one schedule. Durable, scrubbable finishes in high-traffic halls stretch the time between repaints.

Older buildings and lead-safe rules

Burlington's median home was built in 1972, and the Census counts 62.2% of units from before 1980. If your building or unit predates 1978, the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting rule covers paid work that disturbs more than 6 square feet of paint in a room, or 20 square feet outside. For a multi-unit building that also means keeping dust out of shared corridors. Our lead-safe painting page has the details.

The master plan also says housing built since 2000 is generally near Route 128, and it links condo sale prices partly to the newer age of the condominium units. In a post-1978 unit the work is drywall repair and repainting, with no lead-safe setup required.

Townhouse-style condos

Not every unit is a flat in a larger building; the Census also records 354 single-family attached homes in town, such as townhouses or rowhouse-style units. A townhouse condo may come with its own stairway, entry or small deck. If the association lets owners handle decks, our Burlington deck staining page covers that work.