Woodwork painting in Tipton: skirting, doors, frames, stairs and bannisters. Rubbed down properly, finished in satin or gloss, no runs.
Ridges and runs sanded out, edges cut clean. The slow part, and the reason it looks flat.
Knotting solution and primer where needed, so nothing bleeds through in a year.
Satin hides more on old woodwork; gloss looks sharper on sound wood. We will show you both.
Panelled doors and deep skirtings are worth the extra hour. We do not fill the detail in to save time.
Glass masked by hand, the beading checked for rot before it is painted in, and the lead left clean. A slip onto old coloured glass does not come off easily.
The woodwork that takes the most punishment from condensation. Sanded back, any soft wood found and dealt with, then sealed properly.
The deep skirtings and panelled doors in the older Tipton housing are worth keeping, and they are also carrying eighty years of paint. Getting them flat means taking the ridges out first, not adding another coat on top of them.
Plenty of Tipton semis still have their original front door with leaded or coloured glass in it, and plenty of internal panelled doors were boarded over flat in the 1960s and 70s to look modern. Both are worth knowing about before the sandpaper comes out, because one needs careful masking and the other can sometimes be undone.
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Yes, but the preparation does it. Eighty years of paint in a Tipton semi means real sanding first. Anyone quoting a quick gloss over the top is selling you a year.
Satin on old woodwork, nine times out of ten: it hides small imperfections that gloss lights up. On good sound wood, gloss looks sharper.
No. The panelled doors in the older Tipton housing are the best thing in the room and filling the detail to save an hour is vandalism. We cut them in properly.
Yes. Every pane is masked by hand and the beading around the glass is checked first, because on an original 1930s door that beading is often the first part to rot. Painting over soft beading just seals the rot in.
Often. A lot of Tipton doors were boarded flat decades ago, and the panels underneath are sometimes still intact. One board is lifted carefully first to see what is there before anything else is agreed.
Skirting, a door and its frame in one room is usually a day, because the sanding comes first and each coat has to dry before the next. A whole house with the stairs is closer to a week.