Painting Contractors in Milton

Painting That Starts With the Wall Underneath

Painting in Milton splits into two very different jobs. In Beaty, Coates, Willmott, Ford and Boyne the walls are usually still carrying the single coat of builder flat that came with the house, and they mark every time someone brushes past. Those homes need a proper primer and two coats of a washable finish, with nail pops and settlement cracks filled first, because houses built on compacted fill over clay keep moving for years and the drywall shows it at corners and above door frames.

In Timberlea, Dorset Park and Bronte Meadows we are often painting after stipple ceilings have been scraped and skimmed, or repainting trim that has been coated five times since the 1970s and needs sanding back before it will take a clean line. Old Milton homes add plaster with hairline cracks and old oil-based trim that needs the right bonding primer or the new paint peels.

Exterior work in Milton deals with wind off the escarpment on the Scott and Harrison side and hard sun on the open newer subdivisions, so we pick coatings for the exposure rather than from the colour chart. We also paint commercial spaces: storefronts in Old Milton, units in the Derry Road and Steeles Avenue plazas and offices in the 401 business parks, scheduled outside your trading hours.

• Nail pops and settlement cracks filled before paint in Milton's newer homes
• Two finish coats minimum over a primer suited to the surface
• Evening and weekend scheduling for Milton storefronts and offices