Premium Heritage Painting
in Unley

Why Unley Homes
Need a Specialist

Unley's Federation homes and sandstone villas carry an enormous amount of exterior timber — fretwork, verandah posts, brackets, window joinery — and it is almost always the timber that fails first, not the masonry. By the time we're called, that joinery has usually had six or seven coats applied over the top of failing paint, and the only honest fix is to take it back properly rather than add coat number eight. The sandstone is the other half of the story. Unley's sandstone should never be sealed with a modern coating; it needs to breathe, and the wrong product on it causes spalling that is expensive to put right. We prepare the joinery to bare timber where it needs it and we leave the sandstone alone or treat it with a breathable system. That's the difference between a paint job that lasts two decades and one that lasts three summers.

Exterior fretwork and verandah joinery failing under layers of old paint

Sandstone previously sealed or painted with non-breathable modern products

Interior plaster mouldings cracked or patched with incompatible materials

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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