Perhaps there are home owners who didn’t get around to painting their outside woodwork last summer, who might be thinking, how that wood might have fared over the winter, and what can be done at this late stage. A full exterior painting job during the short damp days of the British winter can be difficult, … Read more
The owners of most homes with timber windows will have to deal with wood rot at some time. The point is to spot it early and handle it permanently. PERMANENTLY is the key word. Now many of the wood fillers on the market today, including the epoxy “two pack systems” are not good enough for … Read more
Take a screw driver or knife-something to poke at the paint with, and wherever you see a suspect area, give it a poke and see if the knife goes into the wood like it wasn’t even butter. Look at places where the paint is wrinkled or shrunk, as sometimes the paint surface remains intact and … Read more
Question: How often should you have to re-paint the outside of your property? Answer: Eight to ten years when conditions are favourable What are these favourable conditions? 1.Correct preparation 2.Use of good quality paint. E.g Dulux WeatherShield or Sandtex Flexi Gloss as part of the Sandtex Trade Exterior System. 3. The work is done during … Read more
I have sometimes been asked for a one coat quick job. For example on a rental property. My experience is that one coat doesn’t work. The wall might look reasonably covered immediately afterwards, but the initial opacity of the paint will fade over a few weeks and the wall will soon be “grinning” and shadowy. … Read more
WOOD ROT REPAIRS Here is what sometimes happens: The client accepts a fixed price. The price represents a specific number of days for the decorator to complete the work and he sets about to achieve this target. However during the preparation stage, the decorator uncovers rot to the wooden windows. If these are to … Read more