Fences and gardens
Fence and garden painting on the Wirral
Fencing, sheds, gates and garden joinery, treated rather than merely coloured, and priced for the real surface area.
- Preparation priced separately
- Floors and furniture covered
- We say when paint is not the fix
Fence and garden painting
Both sides, every slat, and the real area
Fence painting is the job most often started by the person who owns it and most often abandoned halfway along. The reason is always the same: the real surface area is several times what it looks. A close board fence is two faces, every lap, every rail and every post, and a panel fence has slats with four sides each. Measured honestly it is a lot more than the run length suggests.
The second thing is that timber in a Wirral garden is working harder than it looks. It is wet for much of the year, it has soil against the bottom of it, and on the coastal side it has salt in the wind. A coating on timber that is already soft at the base is money spent on something that is going to need replacing, so the posts and the bottom rails get checked before anything is quoted.
Then the product. A spirit based preservative soaks in and protects; an opaque paint sits on the surface and looks better but has to be maintained. Neither is wrong and they are different commitments, and it is worth choosing deliberately rather than by whatever colour you liked. Often asked about alongside painting prices, interior painting and exterior painting.
Get a price for the fencingBoth faces, every lap and every post. Several times what the run length suggests, which is why it is priced on area.
Posts and bottom rails checked first. Coating timber that is already soft at the base is money in the wrong place.
One soaks in and protects, the other sits on top and looks better. Different commitments, chosen deliberately.
Done across Greasby, Meols, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Fence and garden painting on the Wirral
What this job looks like
The slots below are placeholders. The pictures elsewhere on this site are example images of the kind of work described, each one labelled as such, and they are not photographs of our own jobs. Nothing here is borrowed from anybody else's. Our own photographs go in as jobs are finished and customers are happy for us to use them.
Why people use us
Done once, properly
Dry timber, a dry forecast and the right product, which between them decide almost all of how long it lasts.
- Timber brushed down and checked before anything is applied
- Both faces and every post, priced on real area
- Plants and paving protected, not just the lawn
- Applied to dry timber with a dry forecast behind it
Frequently asked questions
Fence and garden painting: the questions people ask
The ones that come up most. If yours is not here, ring and ask.
Why is fence painting priced by area rather than by length?
Because the area is several times what the length suggests. Two faces, every lap, every rail and every post, and on a panel fence every slat has four sides. Pricing by the metre run would be guessing.
Can you paint a fence that is already damp?
Not with any sense. Timber has to be dry for a coating to penetrate or adhere, and on this peninsula that means picking the week rather than the day. Applying to wet timber is the most common reason a fence needs doing again the following year.
Is it worth painting a fence with rotten posts?
No. The posts and bottom rails are what fail first and they are what hold the fence up. We check those before quoting, and if they have gone we will tell you that it is a fencing job before it is a painting one.
Will you get it on my plants?
Not if they are protected, and that is part of the job rather than your problem. Beds against a fence take longer to protect than open lawn, and that is allowed for in the time.
Done across Greasby, Meols, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Tell us the run and what it is made of
Length, height and whether it is close board or panel is enough for a first number.
About Wirral Painting
How the work is actually organised
Wirral Painting takes the job as main contractor and puts the labour on it. One person quotes it, one person is answerable for it, and you are not chasing three numbers to find out who is turning up on Tuesday.
It is worth saying plainly rather than implying a van and a family name. What you get is a written scope with the preparation itemised, a date, and somebody whose problem it is if the date moves.
What we will tell you we are not
Damp treatment, plastering and joinery are other trades. All three turn up constantly in decorating enquiries, because a decorator is usually the first person to see the problem.
A damp patch that keeps returning, a wall that needs replastering rather than filling, a rotten cill under a window you want painted: we will tell you that is what you are looking at rather than put a coat over it and take the money.
No photographs of our work, and why the site says so
There are no job photographs on this site. The slots are placeholders and they are labelled as placeholders. Nothing here is a stock picture presented as a job and nothing is borrowed from another company.
Real photographs go in as jobs are finished and customers are happy for us to use them, and not before. The same goes for anything that looks like a customer quote. There is a section built and ready for them, switched off, and it stays that way until there are real ones with permission attached.
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