Painting, Panelling, Coving and Kitchen Respray in Limerick
Most rooms need more than one trade. The walls want painting, the ceiling line wants coving, the edge of the floor wants skirting, and someone has to sort out the gaps in between. We do all of it. You get one team, one quote and one person to message, and the room is finished when we leave.
Below is what we do, what to expect from each job, and how to get a quote without picking up the phone. We’re based in Limerick and work across the city and surrounding areas, in homes of all ages.
Painting and Decorating
Interior and exterior painting for walls, ceilings, doors, stairs and woodwork. We also hang wallpaper, fit flooring and finish detailed woodwork, so a room doesn’t stop at the paint.
Most of a good paint job happens before the paint goes on. Floors and furniture get covered first. Holes and cracks are filled and sanded, stains are sealed so they don’t come back through, and bare or patched areas are primed. Skip that and the job looks fine for a few months, then it doesn’t.
New build or new plaster?
New plaster is thirsty. It needs a thinned first coat, called a mist coat, before the proper coats go on, or the paint dries patchy and can peel. New houses also settle, and hairline cracks are common in the first year. We fill what’s there before we paint so you start clean, and we’ll tell you what to expect afterwards.
Older house?
Older walls often carry layers of old paint, patched repairs and the odd damp patch. If a stain is coming from damp, painting over it won’t fix it. We’ll tell you that up front rather than paint over it and leave you to find out later.
What it's like having us in
Older walls often carry layers of old paint, patched repairs and the odd damp patch. If a stain is coming from damp, painting over it won’t fix it. We’ll tell you that up front rather than paint over it and leave you to find out later.
Wall Panelling
Panelling is the quickest way to give a plain room some character. Popular styles are shaker, board and batten, traditional wainscoting and slatted or acoustic panels. Hallways, stairs, living rooms behind the TV and bedroom headboard walls are where we fit it most.
Panelling meets the skirting at the bottom and the coving at the top, so the three need planning together. That’s simpler when one team does the lot. Irish walls are rarely perfectly straight, so we plan the layout before anything is fixed, and the finished lines look even instead of drifting.
Panels are fitted, filled, painted and finished as one job. You don’t need to hire a carpenter and then a painter and hope they agree on the colour and the finish.
Not sure which style suits your room? Send a photo of the wall and tell us how you use the space.
Coving and Skirting
Coving, sometimes called cornice, is the moulding where the wall meets the ceiling. Skirting is the board where the wall meets the floor. Fitted well, they make a room look finished. Missing or badly fitted, they’re the first thing your eye goes to.
We fit both in new builds, extensions and renovations, and we replace old or damaged skirting after new flooring goes in. Most modern homes have low, plain skirting. Taller, more detailed profiles suit older rooms, and we can help you pick one that matches the age of the house.
Fitting shows in the joints, the corners and the gaps. We cut the corners properly, fill and seal the joints, and paint the finished boards, so nothing looks stuck on afterwards.
Kitchen Respray
A respray gives you a kitchen that looks new without the cost or the disruption of ripping the old one out. We refinish your existing doors, drawer fronts and frames in a colour you choose, using a hard-wearing cabinet finish. Ordinary wall paint wouldn’t last a month in a kitchen.
When a respray makes sense
The layout works, the cabinet boxes are solid, and the doors are sound but tired, dated or the wrong colour. That’s where a respray saves the most money.
When it doesn't
Doors swollen from water, foil or laminate that’s lifting, or a layout you actually want to change. We’ll tell you if a respray isn’t the right answer for your kitchen, because it’s better you hear it from us before we start.
What we need for a quote
Photos of the kitchen, roughly how many doors and drawer fronts there are, and the colour you have in mind. That’s enough for a price in most cases.
