The GPD Guide
Practical advice, professional methods and expert insight from our painting, decorating and bespoke projects across London & Surrey.
Filling, sanding and priming are the stages nobody photographs, yet they determine almost everything about how the finished paintwork reads in daylight. Here's what good preparation involves and why it takes the time it does.
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Spraying is not simply a faster brush. It suits some surfaces beautifully and others hardly at all. Here's how the two methods really compare on finish, preparation, disruption and durability.
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Exterior decorating in the UK is as much about timing, condition and access as it is about paint. Here is what is worth assessing before anyone opens a tin, and what a properly run exterior job looks like from survey to handover.
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Wallpaper is far less forgiving than paint. Every hollow, every ridge and every unsealed patch shows up in the seams and the pattern. Here is what happens to a wall before the first length goes up, and why it matters.
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Panelling either settles into a room as though it was always there, or it fights it. The difference is almost entirely proportion, and decisions made before anything is cut.
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Fitted joinery is judged from a foot away, in daylight, by someone opening a door. That is a far harder test than a wall, and it is met in the preparation rather than the final coat.
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