Paint is the cheapest thing you can do to a house and the easiest to do badly. The difference between a repaint that holds up and one that does not is almost entirely in what happens before the first coat.
Interiors
Repaints to walls, ceilings, trim and doors. Holes and cracks filled, edges cut in properly, and the room put back the way we found it.
Exteriors
Exterior touch-ups and smaller repaints. Coastal exposure through the Illawarra and South Coast is hard on paint, particularly on the weather side of a house, and that side often needs attention well before the rest.
Preparation
Washing down, filling, sanding, spot-priming and taping. It is the least interesting part of the job and the part that decides whether you are doing this again in three years or ten.
Scope
Very large whole-house repaints can cross into work that needs a licensed contractor in NSW. Where a job does, we will say so before quoting rather than after.
Common questions
- How much of the job is preparation?
- Most of it, and that is not a throwaway line. Washing down, filling, sanding, patching and taping is where a repaint either lasts or starts failing in two years. A quote that looks unusually cheap has almost always come out of the prep.
- Do you paint exteriors near the coast?
- Yes, and coastal exposure changes the specification. Salt air is hard on exterior coatings, so surface preparation and product selection matter more here than they would inland, and the realistic repaint cycle is shorter.
- Can you match an existing colour?
- Usually. A clean offcut or a chip taken from somewhere inconspicuous can be scanned and matched. Matching to a faded wall is less reliable, since what you are matching has already shifted from the original.
- Is there a size of job you don't take on?
- Most repaints are well within what we take on. Very large whole-house jobs can cross into territory that needs a licensed contractor in NSW, and we will scope it honestly and tell you which side of the line your job sits on.