Premium Heritage Painting
in Toorak Gardens

Why Toorak Gardens Homes
Need a Specialist

Toorak Gardens has a concentration of Tudor Revival housing that is unusual even for Adelaide, and it brings two very specific technical problems. The first is roughcast render — the textured finish thrown onto the wall rather than trowelled flat. When it starts to blow off in patches, matching a repair is genuinely difficult, because the texture depends on the aggregate, the mix and the way it's thrown. Get any of those wrong and the patch is visible from the footpath forever. The second is the half-timbering. Those decorative timber boards look structural but most are applied to the face of the wall, so water gets behind them and rots them from the back while the front still looks sound. Painting over that is painting over a problem. We repair the timber first, then finish it.

Roughcast and pebbledash render blowing off in patches that are hard to match

Decorative half-timbering rotting from behind while the face still looks sound

Past repairs to textured render patched with a visibly different finish

Heritage Villa — Salt Damp & Interior Restoration

Salt damp had been rising through the walls of this heritage villa for years, made worse by earlier repairs in hard cement. We stripped the affected walls back to bare masonry, repointed in compatible lime mortar, and applied sacrificial lime render at the base so the salt draws out into the render rather than further into the wall. The interiors were then fully restored — ornamental plasterwork, cornice runs, archways and all.

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