EXTERIOR HOUSE PAINTING MELBOURNE

Walk around any Melbourne house and you can usually tell which way it faces just by the paint. The north and west walls cop the afternoon sun and go chalky first. The south side stays damp and grows mould. Same house, same paint, completely different problems. A good exterior job deals with each side on its own terms.

What we look for first

Flaking around windowsills. Soft timber at the bottom of door frames. Fine cracks in render that let water in behind the paint. Chalky residue that comes off on your hand. Painting over any of that is a waste of money, so it gets fixed or treated first. Mould gets killed, not covered. Rotten timber gets cut out and replaced.

Older houses and lead

If your house was painted before the 1970s, there’s a fair chance there’s lead paint under the newer layers. Sanding it carelessly puts dust everywhere, including your garden and next door’s. It needs to be handled safely, and we take that seriously.

Paint that copes

We use premium weather-resistant exterior paint. But even the best paint fails early if it goes on in the wrong conditions. Painting a west wall in the full heat of the afternoon, or onto timber that’s still damp from overnight rain, is how you get blistering. Timing the work around the weather is half the trick.

We paint brick, weatherboard and render, plus gutters, fascias, eaves and trims. Period homes have their own page: heritage painting.

Cost and colour

Size, height and the amount of repair drive the price. Our exterior cost guide covers it, and the exterior colour guide helps before your free colour consult. Look at sample colours outside in daylight. Indoors they lie.

A recent exterior job

This two-storey rendered home was taken back to a clean, bright white, fence included. On a big render job like this the work is in the patching. Every hairline crack gets filled and sanded flush first, or it shows straight through a white finish in strong sun.

A lot of our exterior work is for small apartment blocks and body corporates, where the paint has to suit concrete paths, steel railings and render all at once.

“They did a fantastic job at our small block of flats, liaising with the body corporate and making sure the end result was just what we wanted. They took care to ensure the paint was correct for concrete pathways and wouldn’t chip like our previous paint jobs had done. Rust protected the railings. Everything looks great now and is protected from the elements.”

Seattle Apples, Google review

Where we work

Mostly Melbourne’s inner and eastern suburbs, plus the north-west and down the Peninsula: Balwyn, Brighton, Camberwell, Essendon, Hawthorn, Kew, Malvern, Moonee Ponds, Northcote, Prahran, St Kilda, Toorak, Williamstown and the Mornington Peninsula. Property managers and body corporates too.

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