Communal Stair painting
Communal stairwell painting and decorating, Edinburgh
As you can see on the picture on the left, the paint is badly flaking and in a state of decline. This is caused by the application of distemper from a time when the stairs were painted in the 19th century. Distemper is an old type of simple paint which consists of whiting and glue.
In the video you can see the paint being scrapped off and the distemper being revealed. The distemper then needs to be sanded right back to the original surface and then sealed with oil based paint.
Distemper was generally found in older properties and used commonly up to the 20th century before more commercial easy to produce paints such as vinyl and acrylic arrived. The problem then was the emulsions and acrylics could not adhere to the distemper unless the surface had been properly prepared and sealed and this results in the flaking of paint that we most commonly see in communal stairs throughout Edinburgh. The surface needs proper preparation and sealed before using emulsion or acrylic paints.
Pentland painting and decorating are experts when it comes to painting communal stairs in and around Edinburgh.
Terms used to describe Communal stair painting.
Common stair painting, Common Staircase Painting, Tenement block Painting, Tenement block stairwell Painting. There are all terms used in and around Edinburgh when residents and owners of a Communal stair decide to get together and start getting quotes for Painting their communal stair In Edinburgh.
Communal stairwell painted by Pentland painting and decorating in Falcon Gardens Morningside , Edinburgh.
This job was carried out on the basis that we only prepared the under side of the stairs and the walls. No hand rail and no railings and no cupola were requested to be painted.
The stair was dull and old fashioned looking and we transformed it using farrow and ball Cornforth white on the top half and plummet on the bottom half. All pipes, conduit and cables were painted with the wall colours which helps take them away from the eye.
The stairwell looked great and the tenants were all very happy.
The second set of photos are from a stairwell we recently decorated in Montgomery street Leith. Colours used were white ceilings, Tallow on the upper walls, Calluna on the lower walls and pelt for the stripe/dividing line. All Farrow and ball colours.