New estates and Edwardian avenues: painting and decorating in Ashford, Kent.
A-Z Decorators paints and decorates homes across Ashford, from the newer estates around the town to the Edwardian houses north of the centre, and out to Tenterden and Lenham.
On a newer house the job is usually its first proper redecoration once the building has dried out, with settlement cracks filled and the builder's finish replaced by colours you have chosen. On an older house it is more often joinery, windows and walls that have had several coats over the years and need taking back before the next one.
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Preparing the outside of Ashford homes
Paint only lasts as long as the surface under it. Before any exterior work we wash down walls and woodwork, scrape back loose paint, fill cracks in render and joinery, and prime bare timber.
Your quotation sets out the materials, labour and time frame, and says whether the job needs scaffolding, so you know what to expect before work starts.
Paint for render, brick and timber
Render and brick on a newer house usually take a good masonry paint. The timber windows, panelled doors and decorative joinery on the town's Edwardian houses need primer, undercoat and a hard-wearing top coat instead.
We choose the coating for each surface rather than one paint for everything, and we will say so if an older wall would be better left unpainted.
Looking after the paintwork
Washing painted walls and woodwork down once a year, and touching in chips before water gets behind the paint, helps an exterior finish last.
Timber is the part to watch. Repainting windows and doors before the old coat starts to crack costs far less than repairing rotten wood.
Interior, exterior and wallpapering work across Ashford
A-Z Decorators paints and decorates homes and businesses across Ashford and the villages around it, with our work reaching out to Tenterden and Lenham. Our team has more than 30 years in the trade, and every job starts with a free, no-obligation quotation that sets out the materials, labour and time frame in writing.
Outside work is only part of it. Inside, we paint walls, ceilings, staircases, doors and skirting, filled, sanded and primed first, and our interior decorating page explains how we work through a house room by room. We hang wallpaper too, from lining paper to feature walls and murals, as our wallpapering page sets out, and we take on bigger jobs such as an interior refurbishment, coving and painted fitted furniture.
For the outside of the house, every surface is cleaned, repaired and primed before any paint goes on, because that is what makes a finish last through Kent winters. Our exterior decorating page covers render, brick, weatherboarding, windows and doors, and our post on the best time of year to paint the outside of your house helps with planning it.
You can see finished work in our gallery, and everything we offer is listed on our services page.
Decorating new-build and Edwardian homes in Ashford
Ashford has grown quickly, and a lot of its homes are on newer estates around the town. New houses need patience before their first proper redecoration. NHBC's guide to your new home says a new home generally takes around nine months to a year to dry out, and that the small shrinkage cracks which appear while it does are normally put right at the first redecoration. That is the right moment to fill them properly and change the builder's magnolia for colours you have chosen, and our guide to choosing paint colours helps with that.
The older parts of the town need a different eye. Ashford Borough Council's record of the Queens Road conservation area, on the northern edge of the town centre, describes tree-lined avenues of large Edwardian houses in the Arts and Crafts style. Homes like these often have original timber windows, decorative joinery and panelled doors that need careful preparation and regular painting to keep the weather out.
Whatever the age of the house, preparation decides how long the finish lasts. Our posts on preparing walls for painting and on whether decorators can fix cracks and wall imperfections explain what that involves. To arrange your free quotation anywhere in Ashford, contact us by phone, email or WhatsApp, or read what customers say about A-Z Decorators on Google.
What can we provide?
We have been providing painting and decorating services throughout the local area for years.