Inside. Outside. Every surface.

Everything we get asked to paint.

Some of it is one wall. Some of it is a whole house and the fence around it. Pick the one that sounds like your job.

• Interior Painting

  Cut lines and edges

  Rooms, hallways, ceilings, doors and joinery. The surface gets made right first, and the work runs around the way you actually use the house.

• Exterior Painting

  Weatherboard, brick

  Every side of a house weathers differently, and each one gets read before anything is decided. Weatherboard, brick, plaster and joinery, washed back and sealed before a coat goes near it.

• Roof Painting

  Fascia, spouting

  Long run steel, corrugate, concrete tile and pressed metal. The moss gets dealt with rather than painted over, and the primer matters more than the colour on top of it.

• Wallpapering

  Paper on and off

  Feature walls, whole rooms, lining paper, and getting the old paper off. The wall behind is made flat and sized first, because paper shows everything you leave under it.

• Plastering

  Stopped flat

  Cracks, dents, tired joins and the holes left behind by somebody else. Filled, sanded back flat, so the paint has a surface to sit on instead of something to highlight.

• Fence and Deck

  Stained and oiled

  Decks that have gone grey in the traffic lines and fences that have silvered off, taken back to grain and put under a finish that holds.

• Residential Painting

  You go on living in it

  A whole house, inside and out, run as one job. One set of dates, one person to ring, and the order worked out so the trades do not end up standing on each other.

• Commercial Painting

  For property managers

  Tenancies, common areas, offices and turnarounds. Worked around the people still using the building, with the noisy and the smelly parts put where they cause the least trouble.

The person who sees it with the walls open.

Bevan paints on Parthenon Construction sites, and Daniel Fridd runs it. A builder picks his painter once and answers for that choice in front of his own clients.

What people ask before they book.

The ones that come up on nearly every job, whichever of the eight it turns out to be.

• Can you do more than one of these on the same job?

  Yes, and usually one job rather than several.

• Who actually turns up at the house?

  Bevan Cochrane, who owns it, and Jordon McGregor, who is a qualified painter. The owner is on the tools, so the person you talk to is the person doing it.

• Can I see something you have finished?

  Yes, and it is worth doing before you ring anybody. Look at the edges and the cut lines rather than the colour, because that is where the difference between one finish and another actually lives.

• How far do you go?

  Christchurch. Far enough out that most of the city is in, close enough that nobody spends an hour of your job in a van.

• How much notice do you need?

  It depends on the time of year, and exteriors book further out because they wait on the weather. Ring and ask rather than guessing. If the honest answer is that you are waiting, we say so.

• Will you tell me if it is not worth doing?

  Yes. A fence past a coat is money better spent on the boards, and we would rather say so than put our name on a job that fails.

• What about insurance repairs?

  A share of the work is repairing damage in people's houses after a claim, and some of it reaches us through Parthenon Construction. Different way in, same standard out. If an assessor has sent you here, say so and we handle the paperwork side with the rest of it.