Woodwork painting in Wednesbury: skirting, doors, frames, stairs and bannisters. Rubbed down properly, finished in satin or gloss, no runs.
Woodwork is where a decorating job is judged, and Wednesbury woodwork tends to be older and thicker with paint than most. The only route to a flat finish is taking the ridges out first.
Inside the older Wednesbury houses the woodwork runs well beyond skirting and doors. There are picture rails and dado rails. There are sash windows that have often been painted shut from the inside for years.
To a point, and it depends what is under the paint. Wednesbury woodwork often carries six or seven coats and a lot of filled dents. Rubbed down properly and finished in satin it will look genuinely good; promised in high gloss it will show every one of those dents.
Satin on old woodwork, nine times out of ten: it hides small imperfections that gloss lights up.
Yes. We work in halves so the stairs stay usable throughout, which matters when there is only one way up.
Usually, yes. The paint seal is cut along the joints and the sash eased. If the beads are too clogged, they come off and go back on. It is worth doing before painting so the window actually works afterwards.
Water-based for most inside work now: it dries faster, smells far less and does not turn yellow over the years. Oil-based still has a place on an outside door that takes a beating.
The layers. Six or seven coats and years of filled dents mean more sanding before anything goes on. Picture rails, dado rails and sashes all add to the length of timber to do.
A room of skirting and doors usually takes two to three days. Each coat has to dry. Staircases, picture rails and sash windows take longer, and the days are planned before we start.
Rubbing down, filling, sealing knots, priming and two finish coats. Doors are taken off the hinge where needed. Everything is covered and cleaned up each day.
Ridges and runs sanded out, edges cut clean.
Knotting solution on every knot and primer on anything bare. Skip it and the resin bleeds a brown stain through your new white inside a year. It is the commonest fault we are called back to on somebody else's work.
On the older Wednesbury skirtings satin is usually the honest answer. It forgives a hundred years of small dents. Gloss is sharper and it wants sound, flat wood underneath it to look right.
A door painted hanging always shows on the edges.
Freed where they have been painted shut, rubbed down, and painted so they still slide. The staff beads are eased off where needed rather than painted over again.
Sanded along their full length and cut in by hand against the wall, so the line stays straight on a wall that is not.
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