Painting Tips & Guides

You’re a letting agent managing forty properties across Canary Wharf and Isle of Dogs. Tuesday morning starts like every other Tuesday. Three tenants have moved out over the weekend. Two properties need painting before they can be marketed. One landlord is furious because the flat you showed a prospective tenant last week looked nothing like […]

Your tenant moved out Saturday. New tenant moves in Friday. That gives you six days to sort the entire flat. Except Saturday and Sunday are gone because you didn’t find out about the state of the place until Saturday afternoon. So really you’ve got four working days. Monday morning you start ringing painters. First one

You bought your ex-council flat in Poplar three years ago through right to buy. Best decision you ever made. Decent sized two bed, good location, reasonable mortgage. You’ve been slowly making it yours. New kitchen last year. Bathroom the year before. Now it’s the walls’ turn. You want it done properly. Not council flat paint

You’ve hired a painter for your Canary Wharf maisonette. They’ve assessed the ground floor. Looked good. Checked the upper floor. Looked good. Declared the whole thing “straightforward, two floors, should take three days.” Quoted accordingly. Day one they paint the ground floor living area. Beautiful. Fresh, clean, exactly what you wanted. You’re genuinely pleased. Day

You bought your Isle of Dogs warehouse conversion because you fell in love with the character. The exposed brick. The original steel beams. The massive industrial windows letting light flood through. The sheer volume of the space, those soaring ceilings that make you feel like you’re living in something genuinely special. Now you want it

Your Victorian terrace in Poplar looks gorgeous from outside. Original features, high ceilings, those lovely cornices. You’re properly chuffed with it. So you hire a painter who specializes in new builds because they’re efficient, reasonably priced, and their work looks immaculate in their portfolio of modern flats. They turn up, take one look at your

You’ve just completed on your shiny new Isle of Dogs flat. The developer assured you it’s ready to move into. The walls look perfect. Smooth plaster, no cracks, exactly what you expect from a new build. So you hire the cheapest painter you can find because, well, it’s brand new. How hard can it be?

You’re on the fortieth floor of your Canary Wharf tower. Your painter’s just announced they’re “not comfortable with heights” and can’t paint your balcony. This is day two of a week long job. The balcony is literally the reason you hired a painter instead of doing it yourself. It’s the most exposed bit, needs the

Your painter’s just called. They’re lost. Again. They’ve been driving around Canary Wharf for twenty minutes trying to find your building. They don’t know which entrance is for contractors. They’ve parked in a resident bay and are about to get a ticket. They’re now asking you to come down and guide them to the service