Premium Heritage Painting
in Parkside

Why Parkside Homes
Need a Specialist

Parkside's symmetrical Victorian cottages are defined by their verandahs, and specifically by the cast and wrought iron lace across the frieze and brackets. That ironwork is the single most common thing we're asked to sort out. Rust starts behind the paint film where you can't see it, then bleeds through and stains everything below it — and because iron lace has hundreds of small edges and undercuts, it is the one element on the whole house that cannot be sprayed and cannot be rushed. It has to be treated for rust and cut in by brush, section by section. Done properly the verandah becomes the best-looking thing on the street. Done quickly it looks acceptable for one winter.

Rust developing behind the paint film on cast and wrought iron lace

Rust staining bleeding down onto verandah posts, floors and render below

Verandah floors and frieze detail skipped or sprayed in past repaints

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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