North Geelong, VIC · Case study
House Painting in North Geelong — Slevin Street
Full interior and exterior painting for an extensive renovation
- Location
- North Geelong, VIC
- Project
- Renovation
- Scope
- Interior & exterior
Project overview
About this project
Highlight Painting completed the full interior and exterior house painting at Slevin Street in North Geelong, following an extensive renovation and extension.
The house was re-roofed and fitted with new gutters and downpipes, new timber weatherboards were installed all around, and the windows, baseboards, weather stops and sections of fascia were replaced. Highlight Painting first prepared and painted the new and existing exterior timber, then continued inside, where walls had been straightened and replastered and new skirting boards, architraves, windows and doors installed.
Scope of work
What was painted
Interior
- Straightened and replastered walls
- New skirting boards and architraves
- New windows and doors
Exterior
- New timber weatherboards
- Window frames and jambs
- Weather stops and fascia
- New baseboards
- Front and rear doors
- Backyard pergola
The brief
A consistent finish inside and out
The client wanted a high-quality finish that suited the new materials and gave the home a consistent look inside and out.
Outside, Colorbond Shale Grey was chosen for the weatherboards, with Colorbond Dover White on the window frames, jambs, weather stops, fascia, doors and other trim. The new baseboards were finished in the much darker Colorbond Monument for contrast at the base of the house. Inside, Dulux Snowy Mountains Half was used throughout.
Preparation and painting
Sealing new timber and spraying the first coats
All the new weatherboards were undercoated to seal and protect the timber. Nail and fixing holes were filled and gaps addressed before the finish coats. The first exterior coat was sprayed and the second applied by brush and roller, with sanding between coats to refine the new timber.
Inside, the same process followed. Although much of the new plaster and timber had been prepared during the renovation, further filling and gap work was needed on both new and retained surfaces. New surfaces were undercoated, the first coats sprayed, and the final coats brushed and rolled in Dulux Snowy Mountains Half.
Colours and finishes recorded
| Surface | Colour or product | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Weatherboards | Colorbond Shale Grey | Undercoat, sprayed first coat, brush-and-roller second |
| Frames, jambs, weather stops, fascia, doors and trim | Colorbond Dover White | — |
| Baseboards | Colorbond Monument | — |
| Interior | Dulux Snowy Mountains Half | Undercoat, sprayed first coats, brush-and-roller final coats |
On site
Filling every fixing point
The traditional-style weatherboards required a large number of fixing points, which left a great many nail and fixing holes across the house to fill individually. Joins and gaps between boards were also carefully prepared to reduce the chance of movement showing through later as cracking or early paint failure.
Inside, straightened and replastered walls and new timberwork created many transitions between new and existing materials, so the team worked through the house addressing remaining gaps and holes even where preliminary preparation had been done. Completing both stages kept one consistent standard across the whole renovation.
Before and after
Project photographs
Genuine photographs from this project. Click any photo to view it full size.
Before 7 photos
After 5 photos
Related painting services
The services behind this project
This renovation combined exterior house painting on new weatherboards with interior house painting on new plaster and timber, using spray painting for the first coats. For another North Geelong project, see Weddell Road. The North Geelong overview is painters in North Geelong.
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