Premium Heritage Painting
in Millswood

Why Millswood Homes
Need a Specialist

Millswood's inter-war housing sits in a particular sweet spot — old enough to have been built with lime mortar, decorative brickwork and rendered banding, recent enough that owners often assume it can be treated like a modern house. It can't. The two things we're called for most are failing tuck-pointing and cracked render banding. Tuck-pointing is the fine raised line in the mortar joint that makes decorative brickwork read crisply from the street, and when it fails it takes the whole look of the facade with it. It's a genuinely rare skill now and most painters will simply render over it, which is a permanent decision made to avoid a week of work. We repair it. Same with render bands and mouldings — matched and re-run rather than simplified away.

Failing or previously rendered-over tuck-pointing to decorative brickwork

Cracked or patched render banding and facade mouldings

Lime mortar joints previously repaired in hard cement

Victorian Villa — Iron Lace & Gable Fretwork

Full exterior restoration of a Victorian villa: rusted cast and wrought iron lace treated back to sound metal and rebuilt by brush, gable fretwork restored, verandah posts repaired at the base where water had got in, and the whole facade repainted. The ironwork alone took weeks — there is no way to spray cast lace and have it last.

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Tell us about your property and we'll come and take a proper look. No obligation, and you'll speak directly with Ian.

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