Category Archives: House Painting

How offices, shops and salons get repainted without closing: out-of-hours working, phased zones, low-odour paints, RAMS and scrubbable finishes.

How Manchester’s grey light, room aspect, undertones, LRV and sheen change a colour, and how to sample properly before a brush touches the wall.

How to paint a garage properly: curing and moisture-testing a concrete floor, single-pack vs two-part epoxy, bare block walls, and priming steel, timber or GRP doors.

Painting a bathroom is mostly a fight with steam. How to sort ventilation, kill mould, choose moisture-resistant paint and let it cure before the first shower.

uPVC windows can be painted, but only with proper degreasing, a light key and a uPVC-compatible system. What fails, the dark-colour heat risk and when to call a specialist.

Light over dark usually takes a grey basecoat and two finish coats. Why reds are stubborn, why deep colours often need three coats and how to check coverage.

Paint brickwork and it is close to permanent. Why solid walls need breathable finishes, what to fix first, and when painting brick really makes sense.

Plumb lines, star cuts round sockets, window reveals, radiators and pipes: the awkward parts of hanging wallpaper, done the way decorators do them.

Painting a damp wall hides the symptom, not the cause. How to identify the damp, fix it, dry the wall out and prepare it so the new paint lasts.

Why skirting paint peels, how to prep and caulk, water-based satin vs oil gloss, and a carpet-safe method that keeps paint off the pile.