What a painting job actually involves
Straight answers about what a painting job involves — what drives a quote, why preparation decides the lifespan, and what heritage and coastal work ask for.
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What actually drives the cost of painting a house
Every painter gets asked for a number before anyone has seen the house. Here is what that number is actually made of, so you can read a quote properly and tell a thorough one from a cheap one.
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Preparation is what you are actually paying for
The paint is the cheapest part of a paint job and the part that fails last. Almost every early failure traces back to something that was skipped before the first coat went on.
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Interior and exterior painting are different jobs
People often assume interior and exterior painting are the same work in different places. They are not. They fail differently, they are constrained differently, and they are judged differently.
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Painting a heritage terrace: what council may and may not care about
Large parts of inner Sydney sit inside heritage conservation areas, and the rules are not the same street to street. Here is what usually applies, and what only your council can answer.
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Salt air and UV: what fails first on a coastal exterior
On a house near the water, the paint rarely fails everywhere at once. It fails in a fairly predictable order, and knowing that order is what stops you paying to repaint surfaces that were fine.
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