Painters in Kingston, ACT

Kingston, ACT was one of the first parts of Canberra to be settled after the city was founded, and some of its streets still carry modest homes from the 1920s and 1930s. Over the following decades it filled in with postwar houses and flats, and since the 2000s the Kingston Foreshore has been redeveloped with apartments and townhouses beside Lake Burley Griffin.

So a painting job in Kingston might be an original cottage with timber sashes and decades of paint build-up, a postwar flat with tired interiors, or a recent apartment where the owners corporation wants the stairwells and corridors refreshed.

Apartments make up a large part of Kingston’s housing. Owners repainting before they sell or lease usually want the job done quickly and cleanly with the building’s rules in mind: booked lift access, protected common areas, and noise and work hours that suit the neighbours.

For owners corporations, common-area work is planned in stages so residents can still get in and out. We confirm access, parking and any building requirements with the strata manager before we start.

On the older homes, preparation decides the result. Paint applied to Australian houses before 1970 often contained lead, so we recommend testing older paintwork and use wet scraping and low-dust methods instead of dry sanding. Original timber windows and doors are usually worth repairing: we fill, prime and seal them rather than covering rot or gaps with paint.