Painters & Decorators in Fulham

The three places a Fulham terrace goes first

The bottom rails of the sash windows, where rain sits and the timber quietly goes. The render on the front bay, which cracks along the same lines house after house as the building moves. And the parapet and rainwater goods up top, which nobody looks at until something is running down the brickwork.

They are predictable because the houses are near enough identical. That is genuinely useful: it means a survey is quick, the quote is accurate, and there are very few surprises once the scaffold is up.

The front elevation

Failing paint comes off back to a sound edge and the substrate underneath gets looked at rather than covered. Render cracks are raked out and filled. Decayed timber is cut out, repaired and made good before priming — on a Fulham sash that usually means the bottom rail and the cill. Everything is washed down to take off the traffic film that stops a new coating bonding properly.

Then a coating system chosen per material: render, timber and metalwork each get their own specification rather than one product over the lot. There is more on how we approach this on the exterior painting page.

Inside a house that has been done in pieces

The other common Fulham job. A house extended at the back in one decade, a loft done in another, rooms redecorated one at a time by different people, and the result is a home where no two spaces quite match — different whites, different sheen levels, joinery in three states of repair.

Pulling that back into one coherent scheme is mostly preparation and consistency: the same specification applied across every surface of a given type, the same sheen through the circulation areas, and enough filling and sanding that the patched walls stop announcing themselves. See interior painting, and wallpaper or sprayed joinery where a room wants them.

Flats, freeholders and shared walls

A large share of SW6 is converted flats, and that changes the shape of a job. If the work touches a shared elevation, a communal hallway or a party boundary, permission from the freeholder or managing agent has to be in place before a programme is set.

We deal with you directly, or with the contractor who has brought us in on a bigger job. Squaring things with a freeholder or an agent is not something we take on — that stays with whoever holds the relationship. Once the scope is agreed, we work to it.

What you get in the quote

A visit first, then a written price. On a Fulham exterior that visit earns its keep: how much of the existing paint is still sound, how far the render cracking actually goes, and whether the sashes need repair before they can be finished are all things that change the number and none of them can be judged from the pavement.

It is free and there is no obligation. If it needs splitting across two budgets, say so on the day — half an elevation done properly beats all of it done thinly.

Around SW6

We work throughout South West London: Chelsea, Kensington and Notting Hill, plus Putney, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Richmond, Kingston and Sutton.