Exterior house painting in Warley, Oldbury. Windows, doors, fascias and masonry prepared and painted to stand up to the weather, not just to look right on the day.
Warley has a lot of 1930s semis and detached houses, many with painted render or pebbledash, timber windows and bay fronts. Exterior paint on houses like these fails for predictable reasons: it went on over something that was already failing, or it went on in the wrong weather.
Timber is where it shows first. Flaking paint on a window sill is usually water getting in behind it, so the loose paint comes off, any soft wood is cut out and repaired, and bare timber is primed before undercoat and gloss. Painting straight over a failing sill buys a single summer.
Masonry has its own rules. It needs to be clean, dry and sound, with any loose material brushed off and cracks filled, and it needs a masonry paint that breathes. Sealing moisture into a wall is how blistering starts.
Weather decides the rest. Exterior work in the Black Country runs on dry spells, and paint needs a surface that is dry and a temperature that lets it cure. We would rather move a day than put paint on a damp wall and see it come off by spring. Flaking paint, damp patches that keep coming back, or cracks that reopen are worth looking at before anything new goes over them.
Loose and flaking paint removed back to something firm before anything new goes on.
Soft sills and frames cut out and filled with a resin repair rather than painted over.
Primer, undercoat and topcoat on timber, which is what makes it last.
So moisture in the wall can get out rather than lifting the paint from behind.
Dry surfaces and the right temperature, even if that means moving a day.
Ladders or a tower where it is safe to use one, and a clear word if a job needs scaffold.
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Late spring to early autumn, when surfaces dry out and paint cures properly.
On well-prepared timber, several years before it needs a refresh; masonry paint longer. Preparation decides most of that.
Yes, with a masonry paint and a roller made for heavy texture. It uses more paint than a smooth wall and takes longer.
Most Warley houses can be done from ladders or a tower. If a job genuinely needs scaffold we will say so before starting.
Yes, usually on the same visit, which saves setting up twice.
Warley, Bearwood edge, Oldbury and nearby.