Painting

Where we paint

Interior repaints between tenancies are the most common job: full walls, ceilings, doors, and trim returned to a clean neutral before the next showing. Most three-bedroom units take two to three days for a small crew.

Exterior work covers weatherboards, eaves, fascia, fences, and timber decks. Pre-sale presentation includes the cosmetic items the property listing photographer will frame — front door, window frames, garage door, and any timber visible from the street.

Touch-ups and patches are an option when a full repaint isn't justified. We carry a record of paints used on previous jobs so colour matching is possible without a new tin per visit.

What 'done properly' means

A finish that lasts comes from prep, not from premium paint. Wash, fill, sand, prime where needed, two coats with the right pile roller and brush for the surface. Skipping any of those steps shows up within two years as flaking, telegraphing, or colour shift.

We use trade-grade paints — Dulux Wash & Wear, Dulux Weathershield, or equivalents from Taubmans depending on the substrate. Cheaper paints exist; they cost more in the long run because they need redoing sooner.

Painting between tenancies

Between-tenancy painting is the most time-sensitive work on a portfolio. The vacate date is fixed, the new tenancy start is fixed, and the painting window is whatever sits between them. Where a full repaint won't fit, we propose touch-ups instead and document what's left for later.

Schedule, photographs of the work areas before and after, and the colour code for each room go into the job record so the next painter — or the next inspection — has a reference.

Common scenarios

• Tenant vacates leaving walls in three rooms in poor condition. Full repaint of those rooms plus touch-ups elsewhere before new tenancy starts in five days.
• Outgoing tenant painted a feature wall navy without permission. Repaint back to neutral white with the right cover coats so the colour doesn't bleed through.
• Exterior weatherboards on the street-facing wall are flaking. Pre-sale presentation: scrape, fill, prime, two coats of Weathershield.
• Bond inspection turns up scuff marks across the hallway and one room. Touch-ups, not a full repaint, are the right scope.
• New tenant has requested a small accent change in one bedroom. Owner approves; we paint two walls plus matching trim within the existing maintenance budget.