Newtown
Highlight Painting paints interiors and exteriors in Geelong, including Newtown. The completed local jobs are an interior at Lancaster Avenue and an exterior at Nantes Street. Commercial work is quoted from the premises. There is no Newtown commercial project in the archive.
House painting
A Newtown house repaint can be the rooms, the outside, or both. Lancaster Avenue was the interior of an older period-style home: wallpaper removed, the walls repaired by a plasterer, then the rooms painted around the fireplaces and timber that stayed. Nantes Street was the outside of a renovated two-storey house: weatherboards, timber-slat eaves, fretwork and trim.
Those are two different surfaces. The quote starts from the one in the job. The wider residential service is house painting.
Interior painting
An interior repaint can refresh walls, ceilings and trim without changing the plan of the house. What it takes depends on the existing paint, damage under it, and the finish the rooms need.
At Lancaster Avenue the wallpaper was steamed off and the walls washed before a plasterer repaired them. Highlight Painting then filled, sanded and painted. The colour was Dulux White Beach Quarter: matte on the walls and ceilings, and a higher sheen on the timber, windows and new picture rails. The picture rails were installed by a carpenter, about 450 mm below the ceilings. See interior house painting for the wider service.
Exterior painting
An exterior coating has to suit the material and the condition it is in. Loose paint, moisture and timber that has started to fail need to be sorted out before a new finish is chosen.
Nantes Street is the Newtown exterior in the archive. It is a renovated and extended two-storey house. Some weatherboards were replaced where they had rotted. Boards that were still sound were scraped, filled and kept. New boards received an oil-based undercoat. The painted surfaces then had two coats of Taubmans All Weather: the first sprayed, the second brushed and rolled. The colour matched what was already there, a light grey on the weatherboards, fascia, slat eaves, fretwork and railings, a darker grey on the gutters, and a beige on the architraves, selected trim and front door. The wider service is exterior house painting.
Older houses
The City of Greater Geelong describes hundreds of Victorian and Edwardian houses in Newtown, and historic homes including Barwon Grange. That is not every house in the suburb, and it does not place Lancaster Avenue or Nantes Street in a heritage overlay.
The Fairview Heritage Area, Heritage Overlay HO1925, is one Newtown precinct. Its statement of significance describes Edwardian, Federation and interwar houses, mostly single-storey, with weatherboard walls, timber windows and verandahs. Lancaster Avenue and Nantes Street have not been checked against that overlay. Nantes Street is two storeys, which is a different job from the single-storey houses described there.
Lancaster Avenue kept its fireplaces, windows and timber. Some weather-exposed window frames had what the notes call non-structural timber rot. Loose material was removed, the defects were filled, and the timber was sanded before it was painted.
Nantes Street has timber-slat eaves, fretwork and railings rather than a plain sheeted eave. Masking had to be redone as the colours changed. Professional scaffolders installed Quick-Stage scaffolding, with roof fall protection where the roofline needed it. The exterior took about two and a half weeks.
Age and a Newtown street name do not create a permit. On a listed or overlay property, the owner should confirm whether a change to an external finish needs approval before the colour is changed.
The heritage note is about the suburb and one named precinct. It is not a listing for Lancaster Avenue or Nantes Street.
Commercial painting
Shops, offices and other commercial rooms are scoped from the surfaces, the access, and whether the premises stay open. Highlight Painting paints commercial interiors in Geelong. No Newtown shop, office or fit-out is in the project archive, so this page does not use one as a local example.
The service is described on the commercial painting page.
Lancaster Avenue
Lancaster Avenue is an older period-style interior in Newtown. Highlight Painting steamed the wallpaper off and washed the adhesive off the walls. A plasterer then repaired the cracking, dents and wallpaper damage. After that, nail holes were filled, gaps and patches were dealt with, fittings were taken off where they were in the way, and the surfaces were sanded.
The walls had one coat of water-based undercoat and two coats of water-based interior matte. Dulux White Beach Quarter was used throughout: matte on the walls and ceilings, and a higher sheen on the skirting, architraves, picture rails and windows. The client later asked for exterior painting. That exterior is not part of the completed record on this page.
Nantes Street
Nantes Street is a full exterior repaint of a renovated, extended, two-storey period-style house in Newtown. Rotten weatherboards were replaced. Sound boards were scraped, filled, patched and sanded. The work also covered timber-slat eaves, fascia, gutters, external architraves, decorative fretwork, railings and the front door.
Two coats of Taubmans All Weather went on the painted surfaces. The first coat was sprayed, after the glass, roof and finished work had been masked, and the second coat was brushed and rolled. The job took about two and a half weeks, including the scaffolding installed by professional scaffolders. This page does not call the house heritage-listed.
Preparation
Preparation is the part of a Newtown quote that changes from house to house. These two jobs did not share a method.
Rooms or elevations, anything peeling or cracked, and whether timber needs a closer look are the useful details. No fixed price or appointment time is offered on this page.
Completed work
Lancaster Avenue is the interior. Nantes Street is the exterior. Each project page has its own photographs.
Questions
Yes. Lancaster Avenue and Nantes Street are both older, period-style houses. Preparation followed the surface: wallpaper and interior timber at Lancaster Avenue, weatherboards and decorative exterior timber at Nantes Street. A heritage overlay, if there is one, is confirmed at the address.
They can be one enquiry. They are still scoped separately. Lancaster Avenue’s completed record is the interior. The client later asked about the exterior, and that later work is not shown as finished here. Nantes Street is an exterior only.
Painted timber can be prepared and recoated when it is sound. At Nantes Street, rotten weatherboards were replaced and the others were kept. At Lancaster Avenue, weathered window frames were filled and sanded. Timber that has failed outright is repair work before it is paint.
On this page, and on the Lancaster Avenue and Nantes Street project pages. They are the job photographs, not illustrations.
Newtown quotes
Say whether the work is inside or outside, which surfaces are included, and what condition they are in. Call 0402 310 506 or send the enquiry.