Painting & Decorating


Oil or varnish on exterior wood ?

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 […]


How to paint double glazed Velux type windows? What should my windows look like when finished?

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 […]


How To Check your paint job. Is it a good one?

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, Oil or Water based paint? Colortrend have the answer.

 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 floors. What is the best floor paint, How do I paint my wooden floor?

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 […]


Ceiling Restoration. How to Permanently eliminate cracks in ceilings and walls using Fibre glass wall covering.

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 […]

Cracks in ceiling before fibreglass lining

After extension alternative view

How to paint and decorate new plasterwork.

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 […]


Restoration of bay windows in Georgian house

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 […]


Restoring sash windows and shutters on Period homes

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 […]