Island Costs Named Up Front
Parking, ferry fares, permits and any barge run are listed or explained before you agree to a date. Nobody learns about a $13-a-day parking line after the last coat.
Barge-and-Ferry Interior Painting in Bald Head Island, NC
What Interior Painting on Bald Head Island Costs Beyond the Paint
An island job starts at Deep Point Marina, where the general lot charges $13 a day and contractors can buy a $725 annual parking pass. Deep Point sits roughly 35 road miles by car from Judges Road. From there a contractor ferry makes the 20-minute crossing, at fares the village does not publish.
A painting job's supplies can exceed those limits. The contractor ferry accepts nothing over 8 feet and only what one person carries aboard in a single trip, so bulk paint, long planks or a tall extension ladder may need the barge. Bald Head Island Limited typically runs it Monday to Friday, recommends booking at least two weeks ahead, and charges the full rate for a cancellation inside 24 hours. The last barge leaves the island at 3:00 p.m., and wind or fog can disrupt a run.
A gas-powered truck on village streets needs its own permit, $40 a day for a vehicle under 15 feet in the village's 2026-27 schedule. Gas vehicles may run only from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays without a special use permit. That is a vehicle rule, not a work-hours rule, but it still shapes a painting week.
None of those costs depend on your walls. On a multi-day repaint, the daily ones repeat, so the estimate states how they are covered.
What Interior Painting on Bald Head Island Includes
One company handles both paint and wallpaper, so a room getting paper and the rooms around it can share a single trip over. Whoever paints your island rooms is covered by our $2M general liability and workers' comp policies. For the method room by room, read how our interior painting works. Scope comes first below, then what the crossing adds.
In the scope
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors in the rooms you choose
Holes and cracks filled and sanded
Caulk at trim gaps and spot primer on stains
Floors and furnishings covered
Final walkthrough and cleanup
How the island changes the job
Materials are counted before the first crossing, since a missing gallon means another ferry ride. Colors are mixed and checked on the mainland, because a tint correction cannot be run back to the store at lunch. Ladders, rollers and drop cloths cross in sections short enough for one painter to carry. Anything the contractor ferry will not take, such as a long plank or a bulk paint order, is planned for the barge with at least two weeks' notice. A barge day ends early, because the last run leaves the island at 3:00 p.m.. On a job longer than a day, the painter either rides the ferry each morning or stays over, and the estimate says which. Empty cans, rags and used drop cloths come back across with us. If a room is also getting wallpaper, both trades are booked into the same crossing schedule.
Why Bald Head Island Owners Call Intracoastal Wallcovering for Interior Painting
Barge Booked Before Your Deadline
If materials need the barge, we reserve it at least two weeks out and plan around its weekday schedule, so a holiday arrival date is not left to chance.
Paint and Paper, One Set of Crossings
Repainting the living room and papering the powder room? A single company can schedule both on the same trips, which means paying the island costs once rather than twice.
Insured on Both Sides of the Water
Our $2M general liability and workers' comp cover the painter at your house. Questions reach a person who answers the phone, and we call before we arrive.
How Interior Painting Works on Bald Head Island
From the first conversation to the finished room.
01List Rooms and a Deadline
Name the rooms, the surfaces and any date the house must be ready. A firm date tells us whether a barge slot has to be reserved now.
02Get the Island Plan
Your estimate shows the painting price and how parking, ferry fares and any permit or barge charge are handled.
03Materials Cross First
Bulk supplies go over by barge when needed; tools ride the contractor ferry within its carry limits. We call before we arrive.
04Paint, Walk, Pack Out
Rooms are prepped and painted, you or your representative walk them, and every can and drop cloth leaves the island with us.
How Much Does Interior Painting Cost on Bald Head Island?
Two things set the price of an island repaint. The painting itself is priced like any other job:
Room size and ceiling height
Which surfaces: walls only, or ceilings, trim and doors too
Repairs before paint
Colors and sheens
Then come the island costs, which are public where the operators publish them:
Deep Point Marina parking: $13 per day, or a $725 contractor annual pass
A village ICE permit for a vehicle under 15 feet: $40 per day
Contractor ferry fares and barge rates: not published, quoted by the operators on request
How those reach your quote is. A one-day job carries one day of them; a whole-house repaint repeats the daily items for each day on the island. Houses on Bald Head Island are mostly newer, with a 2002 median build year, which may keep repair work modest. On a Bald Head Island repaint, the quote is the quote we honor. Military households save 10%.
More for Your Bald Head Island Home
Wallpaper Installation on Bald Head Island
Paper hung by our W-2 crew, with inside corners cut by hand.
Designer Wallpaper Sourcing
Trade papers sourced in colors that sit well beside a new coat of paint.
Where We Serve
From our Wilmington base, we serve Bald Head Island and the surrounding Brunswick County area, plus the rest of the coastal Carolinas corridor.
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