Our new home painters seal and prepare bare surfaces properly, because a new home’s finish is decided by what goes on first.
Painting a new house sounds easy: clean surfaces, no old paint, nothing to repair. In practice, new work is less forgiving than a repaint.
Bare plasterboard and fresh render are porous and absorb paint unevenly. They must be sealed first, and a sealer is not a first coat of wall paint. Skip it and the joints show through at a different sheen, a defect that cannot be fixed without starting again.
Fresh render is alkaline and holds moisture, so it needs time before coating. When a build programme slips, this is where the pressure lands, and where it should be resisted.
Painting comes near the end of a build. It absorbs every earlier delay, while the handover date rarely moves.
We would rather talk honestly about what fits than rush and deliver a finish that needs fixing. If the window cannot move, we protect the sealer coat and the drying times between coats.
For owner-builders, the costliest mistake is two coats of wall paint straight onto bare plasterboard. It shows every joint once dry.
New home painting is one of our residential painting services, run from our base in Canning Vale.
With no floors or furniture to react against, choosing colours for a new home is harder, not easier.
Yes, always. Bare plasterboard and the stopping over its joints absorb paint at different rates, so paint applied straight on dries with the joints showing as a different sheen. A plasterboard sealer evens out the surface first. It is the most often skipped step in new-home painting.
Longer than most programmes allow. Fresh render is alkaline and holds moisture, and painting it too early causes adhesion problems and efflorescence weeks later. The right period depends on the render system, thickness and weather. Perth's dry heat dries the surface faster than the depth. We check it on site and will tell you if it is not ready.
Yes, as well as for owners and owner-builders. Painting comes near the end of a build and absorbs every earlier delay, so we are realistic about the window. We would rather agree a workable sequence than accept a rushed programme and hand over work that needs fixing.
Not necessarily, and often not. There is no old paint to prepare or repair, which saves time. But new work needs a full sealer coat on every surface and a higher finish standard, because it is inspected closely at handover. The extra coat and tighter standard largely cancel out the prep saving.
Builder, owner-builder or owner, we assess the surfaces, confirm what is ready and price a system that lasts past handover.
