Filling, sanding, caulking and cutting in, then two coats properly laid on. New plaster mist coated, woodwork prepared and finished, ceilings cut in clean at the wall line and papered walls hung with the pattern matched. Furniture moved and covered, floors sheeted, and every roll of tape off before we leave.
Filling, sanding, caulking the gaps at skirtings and architraves and dusting off before a brush is opened. Paint hides nothing, and a fast decorator with no prep is not saving you money.
Fresh plaster left to dry, then a thinned mist coat before the finish coats, so the paint bonds to the wall rather than peeling off in sheets a year later.
Ceilings cut in by hand at the wall line, sharp edges at the skirting and around switches, and no roller texture running onto woodwork or glass.
Furniture moved and sheeted, floors covered, doors and handles masked and everything put back where it was, then the tape off the same day rather than left to pull paint with it.
Five to seven days for a skim in reasonable conditions, up to two weeks for a full replaster or in winter. The wall tells you: dark damp patches mean it is not ready, an even pale colour means it is. Then it needs a mist coat, emulsion thinned with water, so the plaster does not drink the finish coat and the paint has something to key into. Skipping that is why paint peels off new plaster in sheets.
Yes. Furniture goes to the middle of the room or out of it, gets sheeted, and floors get covered before anything else happens. It gets put back where it was at the end. What we ask you to deal with is anything fragile or valuable, ornaments, electronics and pictures, because nobody wants us handling those.
Units, yes, and it can transform a kitchen that is structurally fine but dated. It is all in the preparation: degreasing, keying the surface, a proper adhesion primer and a hard-wearing topcoat, sprayed or laid on carefully. Tiles are more of a compromise, painted tiles never wear as well as people hope, particularly in a shower, and we will say so rather than take the work and leave you disappointed.
Yes, including patterned and feature walls. Walls get lined where the surface needs it, because paper shows every defect underneath. Pattern matching and drops get set out and cut before anything is pasted, and we ask for a bit more paper than the strict coverage figure so a bad drop is not a crisis.
Almost never, whatever the tin says. Two coats over a mist coat on new plaster, two coats over a colour change, and sometimes three where a strong colour is going pale. A one coat job looks patchy in daylight within a week, so if a price looks lower than everybody else's, that is often where the difference is hiding.
One firm from the first sketch to the last coat of paint.
ServiceDormer, hip to gable, rooflight or a full mansard, worked out from what your roof will actually allow rather than what fits a brochure.
ServiceRear, side return and wrap-around extensions built from the footings up: foundations dug and inspected, structure and steels in, roof on and weathertight, then the inside fitted out and joined into the rest of the house so it reads as one room rather than a bolted-on box.
ServiceStrip out, first fix, fit and finish.
ServiceFull rip-out to a finished room: old suite and tiles off, pipework and wiring reworked, walls squared and boarded, tanking where it matters, then tiled, fitted and sealed.
ServiceA downstairs WC under the stairs, an en-suite carved out of a bedroom, a shower room in the loft.
ServiceStud partitions, new openings and closed-up doorways: turning one big room into two, splitting a through lounge, forming a hallway, boxing in a utility or opening a wall up with a beam over it.
ServiceThe wiring and pipework side of a refurbishment, handled by our own team instead of booked in around somebody else's diary.
ServiceBoarding, skimming, patching and rendering.
ServiceWalls and floors, large format porcelain, metro, mosaic and natural stone.
ServiceEngineered wood, laminate, vinyl plank, tiles and carpet made ready.
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