Real costs, real preparation, and the things most decorators would rather you didn't know. Written by the people doing the work, not a marketing agency.
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5 min readRead → Buying & movingThe 8–12 week conveyancing wait is the ideal time to line up decorating. Price it from the listing plan and start the week you get the keys.
6 min readRead → Buying & movingThe empty window after completion is the cheapest, easiest time to repaint. Price the whole house from your floor plan.
6 min readRead → Buying & movingUpgrade the flat developer white that marks so easily. Price it from the builder's floor plan and choose your own finish.
6 min readRead → ProblemsNo paint fixes condensation. Why it's always the same three spots, how much water your house makes daily, and the free changes that actually work.
8 min readRead → How toOn woodwork spraying wins and it isn't close. On walls it barely matters. And it isn't faster in an occupied house, because of masking.
7 min readRead → How toYes, but less than the marketing says and far less than prep does. Why Dulux Trade isn't Dulux, and the price paradox that makes trade paint cheaper.
8 min readRead → How toGravity decides it. The full 9-step sequence, the one thing decorators genuinely disagree on, and why picture framing ruins rushed jobs.
7 min readRead → Cost guideIt won't raise your asking price. It stops buyers subtracting from it, and they subtract far more than the work costs. Where the money goes furthest.
8 min readRead → ColourPaint is cheaper and easier to change. Wallpaper wins on two things, and one is a genuinely good reason nobody mentions: it hides bad walls.
8 min readRead → How toAnyone can call themselves a decorator tomorrow. The 12 questions that reveal everything, the red flags that matter, and the ones that don't.
10 min readRead → Cost guide£350 to £1,200. Almost no floor area, and routinely the most expensive space in the house. The vertical maths, and why cheap quotes cut here first.
8 min readRead → ProblemsSometimes. The 30-second test that tells you which, why paint makes paper bubble, and what stripping actually costs.
7 min readRead → Cost guideHow often to redecorate, what it costs, and what you can't charge a tenant for. Fair wear and tear, apportionment, and the void-week strategy.
9 min readRead → How toDrying times, how to tell when it's actually ready, why the mist coat decides whether your paint sticks, and why PVA is the wrong answer.
7 min readRead → ProblemsWhy mould comes back through paint, condensation versus damp, how it should actually be treated, and when to call someone else instead.
8 min readRead → ProblemsThe seven real causes, how to identify which one you have, the repair sequence that actually works, and what peel stop does.
8 min readRead → ProblemsWhy stains bleed through no matter how many coats, which stains need sealing, water vs oil vs shellac, and when you don't need it at all.
7 min readRead → How toThe honest answer by situation, why red and yellow need four, the tinted undercoat trick, and what 'two coats' really means in a cheap quote.
7 min readRead → Cost guideWhat decorators charge per day in 2026, why the day rate quietly works against you, and how to compare the two properly.
8 min readRead → How toA realistic checklist. What's your job, what's ours, what genuinely delays a job, and why you shouldn't wash the walls for us.
6 min readRead → Cost guideReal 2026 prices by room size and type, why size drives the price, what else moves it, and the three questions that expose a cheap quote.
8 min readRead → Cost guideA room-by-room breakdown from £2,200 to £5,500+, why two '3-beds' can be priced hundreds apart, and how long it really takes.
8 min readRead → Cost guide£1,400 to £2,900. Why a small Victorian terrace costs more than its floorplan suggests: ceiling height, chimney breasts, lath and plaster.
8 min readRead → Cost guide£2,400 to £4,400. The most common house in Britain, and why the 1930s bay window costs more than the box room.
8 min readRead → Cost guide£3,600 to £6,800. Why the double-height hallway costs more than two bedrooms, and why modern builds are cheaper per m² but not cheaper.
8 min readRead → Cost guide£6,000 to £13,000+. At this size the bedroom count stops mattering. Ceiling height, cornicing and sash windows are the whole story.
9 min readRead → Cost guide£1,600 to £4,200. The best-value property type we decorate, because there's no stairwell. Plus the artex and asbestos question.
7 min readRead → Cost guide£700 to £2,400. Purpose-built vs conversion, the access cost nobody quotes for, and what landlords should know about changeover.
7 min readRead → ColourEvery interior finish in plain English, which hides imperfections, which shows everything, and a room-by-room table.
7 min readRead → ColourWhy 'just white' is the hardest colour to get right. Undertones, north vs south facing rooms, ceilings and trim, and how to test properly.
7 min readRead → How toRealistic lifespans by room and surface, what makes paint last longer, and why cheap jobs fail early.
7 min readRead → LocalLocal decorating for Oadby homes, from Brocks Hill period properties to the Wigston Road estates. Prices, FAQs and instant quoting.
4 min readRead → LocalLocal decorating for Wigston, from Victorian terraces to the modern estates towards Kilby and South Wigston.
4 min readRead → LocalLocal decorating across Syston and the north-east of Leicester, with fixed pricing and no visit needed.
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4 min readRead → LocalLocal decorating for Countesthorpe homes, quoted online without a visit.
4 min readRead → LocalLocal decorating for Great Glen and the villages south-east of Leicester.
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