Old Town's miner houses
Small homes around Main Street date to the coal-mining era and carry decades of layered paint and simple but fragile trim.
Louisville, Colorado
Painters in Louisville, CO
A former coal town with a small historic core and a lot of rebuilding since the Marshall Fire.
Direct answer
Painter Hotline paints houses in Louisville, Boulder County. Housing there is mostly 1990s and newer, with 20% from before 1980. Free estimates: 720-208-5645.
Local conditions
What painting in Louisville involves
After the Marshall Fire
The December 2021 Marshall Fire destroyed hundreds of homes in Louisville and neighboring Superior. Many streets now mix brand-new construction with houses that survived, sometimes with smoke or heat damage on the side that faced the fire.
New next to old
A rebuilt house and the original one beside it often need completely different approaches: new fiber cement and fresh primer on one, adhesion testing and selective scraping on the other.
Mostly 1980s and 1990s
Away from Old Town, the Census shows Louisville was built mainly in the 1980s and 1990s, so the typical repaint here is a 30- to 40-year-old house with original trim, cedar fencing and its third coat of paint.
Matching a rebuilt neighbor
Owners of surviving homes often want to coordinate with newly built houses next door. We can sample colors on your siding beside the new fiber cement so the two read well together.
Local dataWhen Louisville's homes were built (dark orange: built before 1980)
How old Louisville's homes are
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2019–2023 5-year estimates, table B25034.
Show the numbers
| Built | Louisville | Boulder County | Colorado |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1940 | 5% | 6.2% | 7.1% |
| 1940s | 0.1% | 1.4% | 2.3% |
| 1950s | 1.4% | 5% | 6.9% |
| 1960s | 1.7% | 9.9% | 7.8% |
| 1970s | 11.7% | 19.1% | 16.5% |
| 1980s | 26.6% | 14.7% | 13.5% |
| 1990s | 29.5% | 18.7% | 15.2% |
| 2000s | 5.8% | 12.5% | 16.7% |
| 2010s | 16.9% | 11.2% | 12.2% |
| 2020 or later | 1.1% | 1.5% | 1.8% |
| Before 1980, total | 20% | 41.5% | 40.6% |
Louisville has about 8,304 homes, and an estimated 20% of them predate 1980, far below Colorado's 40.6% and far below Boulder County's 41.5%. The 1990s added the most (29.5%); 23.9% are from 2000 on.
What the numbers mean for Louisville jobs
- About 2 in 10 Louisville homes are pre-1980; for those, the year built decides how old paint gets scraped. Why 1978 matters.
- 67.8% from 1970–1999, prime years for hardboard siding: board edges and caulk joints get the attention.
| County | Boulder County |
|---|---|
| ZIP codes | 80027 |
| Neighborhoods | Old Town Louisville, Coal Creek Ranch, Centennial Heights, Saddleback, Steel Ranch, North End and the Harper Lake area |
Questions
Louisville painting questions
Do you work on rebuilt homes in Louisville?
Yes, both finish painting on new construction and repainting surviving homes nearby, with the product matched to each substrate.
Can smoke-stained siding just be painted over?
It needs cleaning first, and often a stain-blocking primer, or the discoloration can bleed through. If the siding was heat damaged, it may need replacement rather than paint.
How many Louisville homes might have lead paint?
By the Census count, 20% of homes in Louisville predate 1980, and any of those could hide lead paint (banned for homes in 1978). Tell us your year built.