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Moving joints
The junction of old and new is a moving joint, not a crack. Flexible sealant, not rigid filler, or it opens again by the second summer.
Painters in
Glen Iris.
Interwar and postwar homes, and a great many extensions. Most of the work here involves making old and new read as one house.
Glen Iris
Where the old meets
the extension.
Glen Iris is mostly interwar and postwar stock — weatherboard, brick veneer, solid brick — and a high proportion of it has been extended at the back. That extension is usually where the painting question actually sits.
Old and new behave differently. Original weatherboard has moved and settled for eighty years and will keep moving; new cladding and plasterboard is dimensionally stable but has its own settling to do in the first year. Joined together, the junction between them opens up. Filling it hard with a rigid filler guarantees a crack; it wants a flexible sealant that can take the movement, and it wants to be understood as a moving joint rather than a defect.
The other half is colour continuity. Matching a new section to an existing painted surface is not a matter of reading the old tin, because the old surface has faded, chalked and yellowed for a decade. Matching to the tin gives you two visibly different whites. It has to be matched to the wall as it is now, or the whole surface has to be recoated.
On these houses
What we watch for
in Glen Iris.
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Matching to the wall, not the tin
Existing paint has faded and yellowed for years. Matched to the original colour code, a new section reads as a different white.
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Weatherboard movement
Eighty-year-old boards keep moving. Preparation and product choice have to allow for that rather than fight it.
What we do here
All four service lines,
across Glen Iris.
Heritage & period
Victorian, Edwardian and Federation homes. Lead-safe preparation, period-appropriate colour, and the slow detail work that stock demands.
Luxury interiors
Panelling, joinery, specialist finishes and full repaints. Minimum three coats, and the preparation that makes three coats worth applying.
Exteriors
Render, weatherboard, brick and trim, specified for a Melbourne year rather than for a Melbourne week.
Commercial & strata
Retail, offices and common property. Staged around trading hours and left clean at the end of every shift.
Nearby
We work
next door too.
Next step
Tell us about the house.
Send through a few photos and what you have in mind. We will come back within one business day with an honest read on the work, the timing and the range it sits in.