New Build Painting in Adelaide & South Australia

On a new build the painter arrives twice. The first visit follows the plasterers: ceilings and walls are sanded, joints are checked, and the sealer and first coats go on before kitchens, floors and fittings arrive, so the bulk of the spraying happens in an empty shell. The second visit comes after the cabinetry, doors, architraves and skirtings are fitted, when the trim is undercoated and enamelled, the walls are cut in and given their final coat, and every mark from the other trades is touched up. External render, cladding, eaves, fascias and doors are painted in between, timed to fit around scaffold and weather.

New plasterboard and fresh render need the right start. Plasterboard is sealed with a dedicated sealer undercoat so the paper face and the set joints take the topcoat evenly, and any flashing or joint show-through is dealt with before colour goes on. New render and lightweight cladding such as Hebel and blueboard are left to cure, then primed with a product that handles the alkalinity of fresh cement before the acrylic topcoats. New timber and MDF trim are primed, filled, sanded and enamelled. Rushing any of these steps shows up within a year as flaking, patchy sheen or joints telegraphing through the finish.

Builders judge painters on three things: turning up when the program says, leaving the site tidy for the next trade, and a finish that passes the client walk-through without a defects list. We plan the paint stages into your schedule, work to your colour schedule and site rules, and protect finished floors, benchtops and glazing while we work. On display homes, apartment stages and multi-unit developments we keep the same crew and the same products across every unit so the colour and sheen match from the first to the last.