interior painting
Interior painting is often one of the final elements that’s undertaken when doing home renovations, and undoubtedly one of the biggest contributing factors to the final look and feel of your home.
Which is why we put a lot of effort into the details to make sure the final look is elegant and refined.
We’ll make sure the wall surfaces are as smooth as we can get them, windows and architraves are fully sanded back before applying paint so that all the corners and edgings are sharp, and that all our brushwork is straight and uniform (which we test under different lighting conditions).
When it comes to achieving a certain mood or cohesive look in your home, the colour choice will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting. And we’re more than happy to help if you’d like any advice in this area.
Simon, paintingHQ’s manager, is also a colour expert who has undergone advanced training on colour mixing via his art painting background (yes, he’s both a house painter and an art painter!).
He’ll be the one to help you sift through all those seemingly identical shades of white (or any other colour for that matter) and explain what the differences are between them in terms of their colour makeup; for instance, whether a white has a tint of any other colour, or whether it’s dull and muted, or crisp and sharp.
This will help you to match your walls to other elements in your home whether that be furniture, floors, or any other feature. He’ll also help with colour advice around achieving a particular mood, or to help highlight particular architectural features through colour
exterior painting
Unless you have a new build, the extent of work needing to be done to get an exterior paint job up to scratch isn’t always immediately obvious.
Like the fabled loch ness monster, there can be unknowns lurking beneath the surface of existing paint.
Mould, holes, or boards could need replacing. Or on the flip side, everything could be great.
To save you from a game of leaky house roulette, before we start any job, we inspect your property and look for signs of damage.
From there we can advise you on what the likely steps will be to bring things up to standard.
Depending on this initial inspection, the scope of work we will recommend could vary.
Sometimes all that’s needed is simply a fresh paint coat over an existing one, in other cases we may recommend something more extensive such as mould removal treatments, repacing some weather boards, or patching holes.
We also pay attention to different areas of the exterior such as damp sides that may receive little sunlight, and overall environmental conditions of the area your property is situated in, in order to recommend the best products to use to both protect your home, and longevity of the paint job.
We also have our own mini scaffold that we can use to move around the property as we work, for more full scale exteriors however, we work with external contractors to provide a scaffold that wraps around a larger area of the property.
plastering
The best results from a paint job come from having a perfect, well prepared surface.
As we say, nothing shows up imperfections like a good coat of paint!
This is why plastering is something we absolutely love undertaking- we can ensure a great paint result.
There are two aspects when plastering we pay particular attention to in order to get a great outcome; the plaster layers, and the finishing touches.
Because plaster is mixed with water, then dries on the wall, hiccups can occur if either incorrect mixture proportions, insufficient drying time between layers, or a lack of support around wall cracks and cavities before plaster is applied. If not done correctly, due to the contraction of the material when drying, it can buckle, crack, or sink over time.
After plaster is set, we work on the finishing touches such as getting perfect 90 degree corners, and a smooth even sanded finish on the walls.
We also look at our work under different lighting set-ups as depending on the angle light hits the walls in your home, harsh shadows can be created on walls that ordinarily may not be as visible under more direct or straight facing light.