Riverside village and newer estates: painting and decorating in Aylesford, Kent.
A-Z Decorators paints and decorates homes in Aylesford, Larkfield, Ditton and Eccles, a short drive from our work in Maidstone and West Malling.
The old village by the Medway and the estates around it ask for different work. Older stone and brick buildings need paints that let the walls breathe, while the newer houses are more often ready for their first full redecoration, inside and out.
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Checking the walls before we paint
On an older Aylesford house we look at what the walls are made of before recommending any paint, because modern masonry paint on old stone or lime render can trap damp in the wall.
If your home is in a conservation area and you are thinking of a new colour, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council asks you to use its pre-application advice first.
The right coating for each surface
Breathable finishes such as limewash suit older lime-rendered walls. Newer render, brick and fascias take a good masonry or exterior wood paint, applied over a cleaned, repaired and primed surface.
Windows, doors and garden joinery get their own primer and top coats, so the paint moves with the timber rather than cracking off it.
Keeping a finish in good order
A yearly wash-down and early touching-in of any chips stop water getting behind the paint.
On newer houses near Larkfield, the first repaint is often the moment to change the builder's colours for ones you have chosen, outside as well as in.
Painting and decorating services in Aylesford
A-Z Decorators paints and decorates homes and businesses in Aylesford and the villages around it, including Larkfield, Ditton and Eccles, close to our work in Maidstone and West Malling. 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.
Inside, we paint walls, ceilings, staircases and woodwork, filled, sanded and primed first, as our interior decorating page explains. Outside, we paint render, brick, weatherboarding, fascias, windows and doors, with the surfaces cleaned and repaired so the finish lasts, which our exterior decorating page covers. We also hang wallpaper, set out on our wallpapering page, and take on bigger jobs, from an interior refurbishment to painted fitted furniture.
Finished work from around the area is in our gallery, and the full list of what we offer is on our services page.
Painting older and newer homes around Aylesford
Aylesford is one of Kent's older villages, with a medieval bridge over the Medway and historic buildings along its river frontage, while Larkfield and the estates around it are much newer. Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council's page on conservation areas and listed buildings asks anyone thinking about making changes to a property in a conservation area to use its pre-application advice service first, and notes that permitted development rights for alterations to buildings are more limited there. A fresh coat in the same colour is rarely an issue, but a new colour or finish on the outside of an older house is worth checking before work starts.
Old stone and brick walls need a careful approach. Historic England's advice on redecorating historic homes is that painting brick, stone or concrete walls can create damp problems, and that lime render may need a breathable coating such as limewash, so on an older house we look at what the walls are made of before recommending any paint.
On newer homes the usual jobs are a first proper redecoration after the builder's finish, colours chosen to suit the rooms, and woodwork brought up to a hard-wearing finish. Our guides to choosing paint colours and preparing walls for painting explain how we approach both. To arrange your free quotation anywhere in and around Aylesford, contact us by phone, email or WhatsApp, or read reviews of A-Z Decorators on Google.
What can we provide?
We have been providing painting and decorating services throughout the local area for years.