Painters and decorators in Southsea

Across Southsea (PO4) it is mostly full exterior repaints, render and masonry work, sash window decorating and wash downs on seafront terraces and villas, plus the wash downs, gutter clearing and exterior maintenance that goes alongside all of it. Southsea sits right on the water, so salt in the air, driving rain and full sun all work on the same elevation, and exteriors there need washing more often and repainting sooner than anything inland. Every job starts with a look at the property rather than a price guessed over the phone.

No. Southsea is about 3 miles from the Portsmouth base, well inside the daily patch, so travel is in the price and a quote visit is normally a couple of days away.

Yes. Southsea fronts take the weather harder than anywhere else on the patch, which is why so much of our exterior work comes from there. Give us a ring and we will tell you what we normally find on properties around Southsea Common and what yours is likely to need before anything gets started.

It changes it a great deal. Southsea is coastal, and salt air is the single biggest thing working against paint on this coast. South and west facing walls get the sun and the weather together, so they chalk and fade years before the sheltered elevations do, and timber windows, fascias and metalwork go first of all. Two things follow from that. The first is that the wall gets washed down properly before a brush goes near it, because masonry paint will not hold on salt film and green growth. The second is that we would rather use a decent breathable coating and a proper primer on the timber than the cheapest option, since on a seafront house the cheap version is back on the quote list in three years.

Yes, and that is the main reason people use us rather than two separate firms. The same team that repaints your render in Southsea can wash it down and clear your gutters afterwards, so it is one quote, one visit to arrange and one number to ring. Plenty of customers have the interior done over the winter and the exterior and the wash down the following summer.

Southsea is around 3 miles from the Portsmouth base, so getting out to look and quote is quick, normally within a couple of days and always inside a week. Actually starting depends on the diary and on the weather if it is an exterior, and we would rather give you a real date than an optimistic one.