If you do not have the time or the funds to strip your wallpaper the following is for you. Depending on the quality of the wall papering job to begin with, will determine whether one can paint the paper or not. If the wall paper is completely tight on the […]
A question I hear often this time of the year when our clients are doing some spring painting and decorating. If the existing wood has clear flakey pieces coming off it then it has been varnished in the past, most lightly polyurethane varnish which works well on wood especially boats […]
When painting wooden double glazed windows there are a few steps that need to be taken to ensure a top class job. The windows need to be sanded with emery paper and the wood cleaned with white spirit, then one paints an undercoat primer, this can be oil or water […]
There are a few things which will tell if your painter knows what he or she is doing. Preparation. If it is walls or wood work that is being painted, the area chosen should be smooth when finished, It is a good idea to feel the surface by running your […]
Painting exterior windows in the past we have relied on oil based primers, undercoats and finish paints .But now with new regulations by 2016 all of these paints are no longer going to be available. Some companies have been forward thinking in this regard and have developed and perfected exterior […]
Painting wooden floors is a great way of bringing new life into a room. It is also a great way of bringing more light into a room. Painting white or a light colour on a wooden floor in a room really brightens up the place. You would seldom if ever […]
Ceilings in many period homes over time may form cracks. In a lot of period houses the ceilings will have been lined at some stage with lining paper to hide cracks, but over time the cracks will reappear and tare there way through the lining paper. The best way to […]
In this blog post, we will be painting new plasterwork . Our client had built a new extension on a period house in Ranelagh, Dublin 6. Our approach to working on this extension involved several stages: When we arrived at the job, the build is a newly plastered extension. We […]
In this blog post, we will look at a client who came to us in need of having their bay windows restored. Click on a photo to reveal full image. For this job, our clients Georgian period home needed it’s sash bay windows restored. In our time, we have worked on […]
Over the years we have worked on many period houses with both sash windows and shutters, and at some stage people go for a complete redo/ restoration of shutters windows and woodwork. Generally there will be over a hundred years of old paint on the wood work, So we tend […]
