Building Restoration Service in Medford, MA
Full envelope work is common in Medford. South Medford is packed three-deckers; West Medford and the Fells edge are detached houses with driveways. The staging, the access and the pricing are not comparable. Strip, repair, prime, and rebuild the finish properly.
Building Restoration Service Services in Medford
Exterior Restoration in Medford
Full envelope prep, repair and repaint — Strip failing coatings, repair the wood underneath, prime and build the finish back properly.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle exterior restoration in Medford.
Historic Home Painting in Medford
Period-appropriate exteriors — Lead-safe practices, historically appropriate colour, and the patience that ornate trim demands.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle historic home painting in Medford.
Multi-Family Painting in Medford
Two- and three-family buildings — Sequenced around tenants, consistent across units, one point of contact for the owner.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle multi-family painting in Medford.
Wood Restoration in Medford
Weathered siding, trim and structural wood — Clean, treat, repair and refinish rather than replace, where the wood is still sound.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle wood restoration in Medford.
More from us around Medford: Start from the Medford overview.
More on this trade generally: Building Restoration across our service area.
Small Crew, Licensed, Fully Covered
Aura is family-run out of Allston. Licence #193121 is on file with the Commonwealth, and both liability and workers' comp are in force on every property we set foot on.
Estimates in Medford
Estimates are written, itemised, and free.
(617) 777-7700 Call Now Request OnlineWhat Building Restoration Work Here Actually Involves
Three-deckers and two-families through South Medford, Colonial Revivals and Victorians in West Medford, and postwar single-families toward the Fells.
Most of our building restoration work here is for owner-occupied multi-families in the south of the city and single-family homeowners toward the Fells.
Two different cities on one map
South Medford is packed three-deckers; West Medford and the Fells edge are detached houses with driveways. The staging, the access and the pricing are not comparable.
Stacked porches
The multi-family stock carries the same front and rear porch systems as Somerville, and they rot at the rails and post bases first.
Pre-1978 throughout
Nearly all original Medford stock predates 1978, putting exterior scraping under federal RRP rules.
Restoring an Older Building Is Not a Repaint
What drives the price
Restoration prices on condition and on what has to be matched. Replacing a rotted section of a plain fascia is carpentry. Replicating a moulding profile that has not been manufactured since 1910 involves either sourcing salvage or having a knife ground, and that is a different order of cost and lead time. In Medford specifically, the work is mostly three-deckers and two-families, and a hard split between dense and suburban shapes how we schedule and stage it.
How the work is sequenced
Water first. Every restoration starts with finding where moisture is getting in, because coating over an active leak is money spent twice. Then substrate repair, then matched carpentry, then priming of every face of every new piece including the back and the end grain, then finish.
Where it usually goes wrong
The failure specific to older buildings is repair that ignores how the building was designed to breathe. Sealing a wall assembly that was built to dry outward traps moisture inside it, and the damage that follows is worse than the problem being solved. Older buildings need to be understood before they are coated.
How long it takes
Restoration schedules are driven by material sourcing and by weather windows more than by labour. We flag long-lead items at the estimate so you know which parts of the schedule are ours to control and which are not.
Recent Work
Before & After
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Raised ranch, colour changeCrew working the transition from the original yellow. Full prep before any finish went on, garage doors and trim picked out separately.
Questions We Get Asked
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Ready for Your Building Restoration Service Estimate in Medford?
We walk the property, measure it, and send a written itemised quote — normally inside 24 hours. No pressure, no obligation.
Licensed #193121 · Fully insured · 2-year workmanship warranty