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Well, it only took me three weeks, but I finally completed the paint undercoat for under our house. In the words of our builder “It’s a real s#*t job!”.
When I took time of work to paint it took me about 4-days of full time work preparing before I could even start painting. This involved a [...]

I am taking this week off to paint under the house. The plastering is complete, so now it’s up to me to paint before the tiling in finished and the carpets are put in.
There are four bedrooms, a hallway, an ensuite and a toilet to prepare and paint in a week. In the middle of [...]

Since we finally completed the paint preparation on our Queenslander we are now able to start testing the paint colours.
The top floor or our Queenslander has powder coated aluminium siding. Although it is possible to paint over the aluminium siding, we decided it would be best if we matched the colour from the top floor [...]

When our Builder here in Townsville put the timber cladding on the house they used a heck of a lot of nails. Although the timber weatherboard cladding came pre-primed, we still had to prepare the cladding prior to painting.
It was a five step process to prepare the timber cladding for painting