Mt Eden is mostly pre-war timber: villas, bungalows and the odd converted cottage, often on a slope below Maungawhau. Painting one well is a preparation job before it is a painting job, and that is where a quote either holds up or does not.
Decades of repainting leave built-up film, patchy adhesion and old failures under the current coat. Where flaking, cracking or bare timber shows through, the stripping and sanding is scoped before any colour is discussed, because that is the part that decides how long the next coat lasts.
Older Auckland timber can carry lead-based paint under later coats. Where that is a possibility, preparation is planned around containment and safe removal rather than dry sanding the whole elevation, and we will say so before work starts.
Fretwork, finials, sash windows, bargeboards and verandah posts hold most of the labour on a character home. An honest scope counts the detail, not just the square metres of flat wall.
Sites falling away from the street change how the rear elevation is reached. Scaffolding, ladder footing and where materials can stand are settled at the site visit, not on the first morning.
Yes. Interior and exterior painting on older timber homes is the core of the work, including the preparation, minor timber repairs and detail work that a villa or bungalow usually needs before coating.
Photos are a good start and often enough for a first conversation about scope and rough scale. For a full exterior on an older home we will normally want to see the condition of the weatherboards, joinery and access in person before agreeing a price.
Yes, where the carpentry sits within the agreed scope. Raise it at the first conversation so the timber repair and the painting are sequenced together instead of being handled as two separate jobs.
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