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Painter and decorator in Irby
A village mix, with older stone cottages on one street and postwar detached housing on the next, wanting opposite things.
- Preparation priced separately
- Floors and furniture covered
- We say when paint is not the fix
Masonry and render painting
The older cottages in the village core are solid walled and were built to let moisture out through the face. A modern impermeable masonry paint on one of those closes that route and tends to show up as damp somewhere less convenient. Those walls want a breathable mineral coating if they want anything at all, and sometimes the right answer is to leave the stone alone.
Exterior painting
The postwar detached housing around the core is the opposite: cavity walled, modern render or brick, and perfectly happy with an ordinary masonry coating. Two houses a hundred yards apart can need different products, which is why the first visit matters here more than most.
Interior painting
Cottages with uneven walls and low ceilings, and modern houses with flat plasterboard. The first shows every brush mark and wants a matt finish; the second will take anything.
Woodwork and staircases
Older cottage joinery, often with a lot of history in it, next door to modern doors that take a coat and are done.
What Irby asks for most
Masonry and render painting in Irby
Solid walled cottages that need to breathe.
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Postwar housing, where an ordinary masonry coating is right.
Read moreInterior painting in Irby
Uneven cottage walls and flat modern ones.
Read moreWoodwork and staircases in Irby
Cottage joinery with history in it.
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Questions from Irby
Can I use ordinary masonry paint on an old stone cottage?
You can, and on a solid wall built to breathe it is usually the wrong answer. An impermeable coating stops moisture leaving through the face, and it then finds another way out. A breathable mineral coating is the right family of product, and sometimes leaving the stone alone is better than either.
Two houses on my street look similar but need different paint?
They can, yes. A solid walled cottage and a postwar cavity house want opposite things, and using the wrong one is not a finish problem, it is a damp problem a couple of years later. It is the first thing to establish.
Other areas covered
Twelve towns across the peninsula. What decides a decorating job here is what the last coat was, how old it is and which way the wall faces, and that is genuinely different in Meols from how it is in Bebington.
Across the Wirral peninsula
The west side and the coast
Get a price for a job in Irby
A photo of the worst wall is more useful than a description of all of them, and it is usually enough for a first answer.
Get in touch
Tell us which rooms, or which elevations, and roughly what state they are in. A photograph on the form answers most of the preparation questions before anybody rings you back.
- Phone0151 453 8836
- Emailcontact@wirralpainting.com
- WhatsAppSend us a photo of the job
- Based inWirral, Merseyside
- HoursMon to Fri 8 to 6, Sat 8 to 2, closed Sunday