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Painting in Plumstead

Plumstead has a lot of older homes with high ceilings, picture rails, deep skirtings, panelled doors and timber sash windows, and that detail is what drives the price of an interior repaint here. Walls are the cheap part. Trim is quoted per item, typically R200 to R500 for each door, frame or window, and a house with fifteen or twenty such elements adds several thousand rand before anyone touches a wall. A full interior repaint in this suburb generally runs R20,000 to R45,000, and almost all of the variation between quotes is in how the trim was counted.

On the trim itself, use a water-based enamel rather than a traditional solvent-based gloss. Solvent enamels yellow noticeably over a few years, particularly on interior woodwork away from daylight, and the smell makes a room unusable for days. Water-based enamels such as Plascon Velvaglo hold their colour, dry faster and let you use the room the same evening. For ceilings, a dedicated matt ceiling paint at roughly R500 to R1,500 per room hides the unevenness that a sheen finish would highlight across a large old ceiling.

Before You Repaint

• Have every trim element counted and listed. At R200 to R500 per door, frame or window, an uncounted trim schedule is where quotes diverge by thousands
• Specify water-based enamel on interior woodwork. Solvent gloss yellows over time and puts a room out of use for days
• Budget R20,000 to R45,000 for a full interior repaint, depending almost entirely on how much detailed woodwork is involved
• Use a matt ceiling paint, around R500 to R1,500 per room. Sheen finishes highlight every ripple in an older ceiling
• Check sash window cords and putty before painting. Painting a window shut is easy to do and irritating to undo
• Strip or sand back flaking enamel on trim properly. Fresh enamel over lifting old enamel telegraphs every edge within months
• Ventilate hard while painting interiors in winter. If you are working in the wet season, moving air matters more than temperature for drying between coats

Services We Cover in Plumstead

• Interior painting
• Exterior painting
• Roof painting
• Waterproofing
• Damp proofing
• Plaster repairs

Plumstead Painting Questions

Repainting inside a Plumstead home? Speak to Painters Tokai for a free quote with the trim counted rather than estimated.

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