Long Beach Expert Painting, painting contractor in Long Beach, CA
(562) 269-1108Licensed, Insured & Bonded
Postwar tract home exterior being repainted in Lakewood, CA.

Painting Contractor in Lakewood, CA

Long Beach Expert Painting is Los Angeles County's trusted expert in residential repainting, specializing in postwar tract stucco exteriors, interior wall and trim work, and kitchen cabinet refinishing. We offer ceiling repaints and garage floor coatings.

Our team provides the prep a seventy-year-old stucco wall needs, from hairline crack repair and pressure washing through caulking and bonding primer, delivering an even, long-cycle finish for homes and hard-wearing coatings for both residential and commercial projects. Fully licensed, insured and bonded, we have painted everything from a single garage interior to a whole-house repaint inside and out.

From bridging a stress crack in a cement stucco field with an elastomeric system to a complete exterior with fascia, eaves, trim and the garage door included, our team handles every detail. Serving Lakewood along with Long Beach, Bellflower and Cerritos, we ensure fast, efficient service and deliver reliable, professional, and durable results on every painting project.

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  • We know this housing stock
  • Cracks cut and patched before coating
  • Sprayed and back-rolled into the texture
  • Licensed, insured and bonded

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A city built in under four years

Lakewood is unusual, and it changes how we quote here.

17,500 homes, 1949 to 1953

A new house was completed every seven and a half minutes. Veterans bought them with no down payment on a 30-year mortgage at 4 percent, and by 1954 the place had incorporated as the largest community in the nation to incorporate at that time.

The consequence is the point of this page. Almost every house here was framed, stuccoed and painted inside the same short window, by similar crews, using similar assemblies. Similar layouts, similar eave details, similar wall heights, and they reach repaint age on roughly the same schedule. Your neighbour's peeling south wall is not a coincidence. It is the same wall as yours, built the same month.

That works in your favour

We know what is behind the finish coat before the ladder comes off the truck, where these houses crack, and which elevations go first.

Cement stucco that has moved

These walls are Portland cement stucco over lath, a material that is hard and brittle. It cracks and separates from the surface when the base under it is not stable, and after seventy years of soil movement most of these houses show hairline mapping somewhere. Painting over it hides it for one season. Repairing it, then bridging the field with an elastomeric system, is what holds.

Postwar tract stucco exterior being recoated in Lakewood, CA
Uniform postwar stucco. When a city is built in four years, the failures repeat and the specification can be confident.

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What a Lakewood house needs

Three things beyond the stucco, and they show up on nearly every walkthrough.

Original 1950s interiors, mostly remodelled

Popcorn ceilings, added texture, wallpaper from three owners ago, patched drywall around later electrical and plumbing work. Texture matching is where interior jobs here are won or lost.

A longer exterior cycle than the coast

Lakewood sits inland, so the salt load off San Pedro Bay is lighter than in Belmont Shore or on the Seal Beach sand. UV still dominates and south and west elevations still chalk first, but an inland exterior here generally buys more years than the same coating closer to the ocean.

Owner-occupied money

Median household income here sits second only to Cerritos among the cities we serve, and most callers buy a full system with real prep rather than a cosmetic pass. That is the right call on a wall this old: the prep is what is being bought, and the finish coat is what you see.

Lakewood corridors and what we work on in each
Corridor or areaWhat we work on there
Lakewood Boulevard, State Route 19Tract blocks either side of the main north-south spine
Carson StreetMixed residential frontage and neighbourhood retail
Near Lakewood CenterHomes around the centre that opened in 1951, plus rental inventory
Along I-605 and the San Gabriel River Bike TrailEastern tract blocks, Rynerson Park frontage

We work the whole city, including ZIP codes 90711 through 90716 and 90805. If you own apartments or retail space near Lakewood Center rather than a house, the scope, phasing and bid side of that work is on our commercial painting page.

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Services we provide in Lakewood

Nine scopes cover almost everything asked for on this housing stock.

Our process

  1. Walkthrough

    We check the stucco field for mapping and stress cracks, test the film for chalking, and look for moisture behind blistered areas.

  2. Written estimate

    Itemised by scope, prep, product, coats and exclusions.

  3. Colour and sheen

    Flat or matte on ceilings, eggshell or satin on walls, semi-gloss on trim and doors.

  4. Prep

    Wash, scrape, sand edges flat, cut and patch stucco cracks, caulk joints, bond-prime bare substrate.

  5. Application

    Airless spray with back-rolling so the coating seats into the texture, thicker nap where the surface is uneven, brush work on trim.

  6. Punch walk

    We walk it with you and fix what gets marked before the crew leaves.

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Why Lakewood owners hire us

We know this housing stock

When a city is built in four years, the failures repeat, and a contractor who has done a hundred of these houses is not guessing at what is under the paint.

We prep like the coating depends on it

Because it does. Blistering and peeling trace back to improper surface treatment before application and moisture already in the substrate, not to the brand on the can.

Lead-safe on the original tract

Homes predating 1978 get lead-safe containment and work practices as standard, which covers essentially the whole 1949 to 1953 build.

Texture matched, then checked

Orange peel, knockdown and popcorn all get matched and looked at in raking light before a finish coat goes near them.

Hairline stucco crack cut, filled and textured on a Lakewood, CA tract home
Seventy years of soil movement shows up as mapping and stress cracks. Coating over them buys one season.

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Two identical houses, two different jobs

The uniformity of the tract gets us close on a number before we arrive. It does not finish the job.

Two houses off the same 1951 plan can have very different stucco condition depending on drainage, irrigation and which way the long wall faces. A sprinkler head that has been hitting the same three feet of wall for a decade produces a repair scope the identical house across the street does not have. So we still walk your property, and the written estimate reflects your walls rather than the block's average.

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Frequently asked questions about painting in Lakewood

Do you serve my Lakewood ZIP code?

Yes. We cover 90711 through 90716 and 90805, which takes in the entire city from South Street down to the Long Beach line.

How fast can you get to Lakewood from Long Beach?

Lakewood borders Long Beach on three sides, so it is a short run down Lakewood Boulevard or Del Amo Boulevard. Walkthroughs are usually available within a few days, and most residential projects start within one to three weeks.

My neighbours all have the same house. Can you quote from theirs?

We can get close, which is a real advantage of a city built between 1949 and 1953. We still walk your property, because two identical houses can have very different stucco condition depending on drainage, irrigation and which way the long wall faces.

How often do Lakewood exteriors need repainting?

Longer than on the coast. Salt load here is lighter than in the beach neighbourhoods, so exteriors generally hold up better than the same coating in Seal Beach or Belmont Shore. South and west walls still go first.

Should the popcorn ceilings come off?

Usually, and this is the stock where the question comes up most. Scraping, skimming and texturing gives a flat modern lid. Coating it in place is cheaper and locks the texture on permanently, so decide before anything is sprayed.

Is elastomeric the right system for my stucco?

On cement stucco with active hairline cracking, yes. On the rare older lime wall it would be the wrong call, so we confirm the substrate rather than assuming the tract answer applies.

Do you offer free written estimates in Lakewood?

Yes, itemised and in writing, at no charge. Call (562) 269-1108.

Are you licensed and insured to work in Lakewood?

Yes. We are fully licensed, insured and bonded, with a certificate of insurance available on request.

What warranty comes with a Lakewood repaint?

We warranty our workmanship and the manufacturer warranty on the coating applies separately. Terms are written into your estimate before work starts.

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Related painting services

The scopes Lakewood owners ask for most.

Other painting service areas

The same crews and the same specification standards across the cities around Long Beach.

Get your Lakewood estimate

Tell us the address and what needs painting. We will check the stucco, read the elevations, and give you an itemised written estimate with the prep scope spelled out.

  • Free written estimate
  • Crack repair scoped before the coating
  • Licensed, insured and bonded
Call (562) 269-1108 Get A Free Estimate

Request a FREE Quote!

Or call (562) 269-1108. Calls only, we do not receive text messages.

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