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Two full coats over a primed or previously painted surface, always — plus spot priming on patches, stains and bare drywall. Anyone quoting one coat is either counting on the old colour being close or hoping you will not notice in six months when it starts looking patchy.

We move it. Small items and breakables are best packed away by you, but the heavy pieces get moved to the centre of the room and covered, and floors get papered or dropped. Everything goes back where it was at the end of the job.

More than the labour rate does. Better paint covers in fewer coats, keeps its sheen, scrubs without burnishing, and holds colour on an exterior for years longer. We quote a specific product line rather than just 'quality paint', so you can compare our quote to anyone else's honestly.

Modern low-VOC paints are dry to touch in an hour and recoatable in four. You can normally use the room that evening. Full cure — the point at which the finish is properly hard — takes two to four weeks, so go easy washing walls or pushing furniture against them for the first while.

Late spring through early fall, when the surface stays above roughly 10 degrees and you have dry days on either side of the work. Painting onto a damp or cold surface is the number one cause of peeling within a year, so we watch the forecast and will reschedule rather than push it.

Our workmanship is warrantied in writing. If a coating we applied to a surface we prepped fails, we come back and redo it. What no warranty can cover is a substrate problem — moisture from behind, a leaking gutter, failing caulking at a window — which is why we point those out before we start.