Exterior Painting of Woodwork & Masonry

Two houses that I pained this summer. Both houses are next door to each other. (I had previously done the house over the road several years ago)

All lovely people, in a lovely quiet corner of the world. The woodwork was all sanded and cleaned with methylated spirit and a fungicidal wash. Then the appropriate Sadolin finish for each house was selected in their colour of choice. The masonry was filled where needed, the edges were all cracking where the masonry meets the wood, so all old filler was taken out where needed and filled again.

They both look great now.

exterior woodwork

Fine Cabinets/Shelving - Sussex Aug 2011

Wallpapering - Clapham Sept 2011

Various Wallpapering Snapshots

Sunshine = Exterior Painting!!

This is pretty much the finished thing - scaffolding still up!

I had to paint around these branches!

N.W. Decorating 2011

Exterior rendering - Johnstone's Pliolite Masonry Paint

Exterior rendering painted with Johnstone's Pliolite Masonry Paint:

"Johnstone's Stormshield Pliolite Based Masonry Finish is a premium quality, solvent-based paint formulated for exterior use on cement rendering, rough cast, brick and concrete. It provides a smooth matt finish that has excellent adhesion to previously painted and suitably sealed surfaces. The Pliolite resin enables application at temperatures down to -5ºC and becomes showerproof in 20 minutes, allowing all year round exterior decoration"

Needed to be brushed down first - quite a dusty surface!

A bit tired looking perhaps, but an extremely good rendering job done by Russell Prain.

Masked off well, as the windows have been recently stain and varnished.

It's quite a long way up on a windy day!!

The weather was on my side, thankfully!

First coat going on.

Diluted 10% with white spirit so that it sinks in, stabilising the surface.

Time to move the ladder by any chance?

The last few touch-ups...

Three coats, takes a bit longer than water based masonry paint, but it's well worth it.

All finished.

hand painted fine cabinet & shelving with cherry wood work top

The master craftmanship is by carpenter Tim Smith, the painting inside and out and varnishing of the cherry wood work top is by yours truly. This was done Oct/Nov 2010. A satin finish on both paint and varnish.