Professional House Painting Services in Whitby

Looking for house painters in Whitby? Start with the painters who live here. Capital Painting Services is based at 89 The Masthead in Whitby itself, and this page is not a service area claim, it is our own neighbourhood: the Adventure streets where the suburb began, Postgate, Endeavour West and East, the Whitby Lakes homes, the eastern shore along the inlet, and the growth hills still climbing behind them, plus the rural homes out at Pauatahanui and Judgeford that we serve from here. Whitby is a young suburb by Wellington standards, about 12,000 people in roughly 4,000 homes, and one of the highest income suburbs on our map, with a median income of $62,100 against $41,500 nationally. It was farmland until a consortium bought it in 1967 to build a planned new town, the first sections were auctioned in 1970, and the first house, 5 Spinnaker Drive, was occupied in May 1971. Every street name tells the same story: the suburb, its two neighbourhoods Adventure and Endeavour, and streets like The Masthead, The Anchorage and Joseph Banks Drive are all named for Captain James Cook and his voyages.

Because the whole suburb was built in five decades, Whitby’s housing reads like a timeline. The 1970s first wave is wood and iron, the 1980s wave is fibrous cement and iron, the 1990s brought brick, stone and the first texture coats under tile roofs, and the 2000s onward added the big executive homes around the lakes and the eastern hills, a third of the homes we sampled are 240 square metres or more, and two storey and split level forms are a Whitby hallmark. Layered over all of it is the Pauatahanui Inlet: shore streets sit metres from a tidal estuary and take salt laden air across the mudflats, while the hill streets behind climb into shade and bush. Painting here well means knowing which wave your home belongs to and which side of the suburb it sits on. This page walks through what we paint, what it costs, the problems we fix, and how we work, street by street, in our own suburb.

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Interior Painting Whitby

Interior painting in Whitby is the painting of a maturing suburb. The 1970s and 1980s first waves are now on their second and third interior repaints, with original doors, skirtings and window frames carrying old oil based enamel under later coats, and textured ceilings from the era when they were fashionable. The newer lakes and growth homes are a different job again: big open plan spaces, high ceilings in the split level designs, and owners changing the builder’s standard colours for their own.

One question from owners of Whitby’s first wave homes comes up constantly: can you paint over a textured ceiling? The honest answer starts with a test, not a roller. Textured ceilings applied from the 1960s into the 1980s can contain asbestos, and Whitby’s first two decades sit inside that window, so nobody scrapes, sands or disturbs one until it has been tested. If it tests clear, we paint it like any ceiling. If it does not, we talk through safe options such as leaving it undisturbed, or bringing in licensed removal before any repaint. The trim gets the same care: old enamel sanded and de-glossed so new water based coats grip, cracks repaired, floors and furniture masked, and low odour modern paints throughout.

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Freshly painted living room in a large Whitby home with views over the Pauatahanui Inlet

Freshly painted two storey home on a shore street in Whitby above the Pauatahanui Inlet

Exterior Painting Whitby

Exterior painting in Whitby splits by shoreline. The shore streets along the Pauatahanui Inlet, Leeward Drive, The Masthead and the eastern shore, sit metres from salt water, inside the high corrosion zone, and their paint lives a harder life than any inland street: salt in the air across the mudflats, sun reflecting off the water, and fixings and flashings corroding where the salt settles. Exterior work there starts with a thorough salt wash and corrosion treatment, then coating systems chosen for a coastal environment. The hill streets behind them trade salt for shade and wind, and the sheltered lakeside streets run the easiest conditions in the suburb.

How long should an exterior paint job last here? On a well prepared Whitby home, seven to ten years is the honest range inland, with the inlet frontage sitting at the shorter end whatever the product, because salt is relentless. Whitby homes are big, many of them two storey or split level, so an exterior repaint here is a substantial job of access and wall area, and it is quoted that way, honestly, rather than squeezed into a standard house price. Tell us your street and your wave, and we will tell you what your home actually needs.

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Interior Plastering Whitby

Interior plastering in Whitby follows the build waves. The 1970s and 1980s homes have had decades of the house moving with the seasons, and settlement cracks across ceilings and along gib joins are the classic repair, worst in the big split level designs where levels meet. The 1990s and 2000s homes add plasterboard systems and the occasional crack along additions, and the brand new growth homes need new gib stopped to a paint ready standard.

Our plasterers repair cracks properly, cutting out and stopping rather than smearing filler over a moving crack, skim coat tired walls to a paint ready finish, and repair water damaged plaster where a roof, flashing or the odd inlet driven storm has quietly let water in. Plastering and painting are quoted together, so the finish you see at the end is one team’s work, with no gap between the plasterer’s standard and the painter’s. On Whitby’s big homes the plastering scope can be significant, and the quote shows it as its own broken down line, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.

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Plasterer skim coating an interior wall in a Whitby home

Freshly coated texture coated executive home in Whitby

Exterior Coatings Whitby

Exterior coatings in Whitby are the specialist systems that protect the homes paint alone cannot, and here they belong to the suburb’s third wave onward: the roughcast and texture coated homes that arrived in the 1990s (Furneaux Grove in the records) and the 2000s (The Masthead itself), and the mixed cladding executive homes around the lakes. Those claddings live on their coating and their control joint sealants: once hairline cracks open and sealants tire, water gets behind the system, and the Wellington region’s 1990s and 2000s building era made that repair bill famous. On big two storey Whitby homes, a failed coating system is an expensive problem, which is exactly why the recoating trigger matters.

We apply elastomeric and high build coating systems that bridge hairline cracks, flex with the building, and reseal the joints as part of the job. The other claddings get honest conversations. Fibrous cement, the 1980s wave’s dominant wall, is painted, not coated over with heavy systems, and damaged fibro gets identified before prep because of what the era’s product can contain. Brick and stone homes do not need their walls coated at all; on those homes the work is the trims, eaves, soffits, joinery, gutters and roof. The system is matched to the cladding and the wave, not to a sales target.

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Pressure Washing Whitby

Pressure washing in Whitby does two jobs: it is the first step of a proper repaint, and it is a clean-up service in its own right for the salt film, mould, algae and grime that build up on cladding, decks, paths and driveways. The salt wash matters most on the shore streets: sea spray salts concentrate exactly where rain never rinses, under eaves, behind downpipes and on sheltered walls, and corrosion does its worst work in those unwashed areas. Around the lakes and in the shaded hill streets, the wash is about mould and algae on the faces that dry last.

Should you waterblast a house before painting it? Yes, a wash is part of proper prep, but the method matters. We soft wash where the surface calls for it, and one rule never bends: asbestos era materials are never waterblasted. In Whitby that means the fibrolite cladding and soffits of the 1980s wave, the suburb’s dominant wall material of that decade. Blasting them breaks the material up and spreads fibres, so those surfaces get tested first and handled the safe way. A clean that damages the house is not a clean at all.

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Pressure washing a driveway beside a home near the Pauatahanui Inlet in Whitby

Treating mould on the shaded wall of a home in Whitby

Mould Removal Whitby

Mould removal in Whitby is the shaded half of the suburb’s story. The shore streets fight salt; the streets climbing into the bush clad hills behind the suburb, the shaded side of the lakes, and the south walls under mature planting in the established 1970s and 1980s streets fight damp shade. Wellington’s climate does the rest: 1,319 millimetres of rain a year on the regional normals and 128 rainy days mean a wall that never gets sun stays wet a long time, and the green film follows.

Our mould work kills the growth at the root rather than bleaching the surface, treats the affected cladding and trim, and then paints with mould resistant systems chosen for shaded, damp exposure. We will also tell you honestly what is feeding it: a leaking gutter, planting hard against the wall, a face that never sees the sun. Kill the mould, fix the cause, and coat it properly, and it stays away for years instead of months. On the big two storey homes, treating the shaded upper walls while the scaffold is up for the repaint is the sensible sequencing, and we plan it that way.

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Butynol Coating Whitby

Butynol coating in Whitby protects the low slope and flat roofs that standard roof paint cannot save. Whitby’s split level designs and 1970s to 1990s additions left the suburb plenty of them: low pitch sections over garages and living extensions, flat roofed parts of the big executive homes, and membrane roofs on the Whitby Shopping Centre buildings in the village centre. When the original membrane ages, seams lift and the surface perishes under the sun, and patching buys months, not years.

We strip or overlay failing membranes depending on their condition, prepare the substrate properly, and apply Butynol waterproofing systems with the laps, upturns and detailing done to specification. A flat roof over a living space has no margin for shortcuts, because the leak you see inside is never directly under the hole. If your low slope roof is ponding water or the membrane is cracking, we will inspect it, we are only minutes away, and tell you straight whether a recoat will hold or the substrate needs work first.

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Fresh butynol membrane being applied to a low slope roof on a split level home in Whitby

Freshly painted corrugated iron roof on a 1980s home in Whitby

Roof Painting Whitby

Roof painting in Whitby follows the suburb’s roof timeline. Iron, corrugated and long run steel, is the roof on every 1970s and 1980s home we sampled, and iron roofs live on their coating: once the paint chalks and the galvanising gives up, rust starts at the laps and fixings, and the inlet’s salt air speeds the cycle on the shore streets. We wash, treat rust properly, prime and apply two coats of premium roof paint, with the primer system matched to the roof’s condition, because the wrong primer is how new roof paint peels.

From the 1990s onward, tile roofs take a real share of the suburb, on The Masthead, Banks Boulevard and the newer streets. Tiles are not painted the way iron is: the conversation on a tile roof home is about the trims, fascias, soffits, gutters and walls, plus honest advice if the tiles themselves need attention from a roofer. So the first question on any Whitby roof quote is which roof you have. Tell us your street and we will usually know the era before we arrive, and we will confirm it on the ladder, not from the driveway.

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Residential Painting Whitby

Residential painting in Whitby is our home trade: whole home repaints, inside and out, in the suburb we are based in. The pattern repeats across the waves. An Adventure 1970s home gets lead aware testing on its earliest paint layers and a full exterior repaint. A Postgate 1980s home gets its fibrolite identified and tested, then a mould treated repaint and an iron roof recoat in one program. A texture coated home on The Masthead gets its sealants checked and its coating renewed before the cracks let water in. A new lakes home gets its first real colour scheme instead of the builder’s standard.

Because this is home, the standard is personal: fixed written quote, surfaces and gardens protected, prep done to the standard the cladding needs, premium coatings matched to the street’s exposure, scaffold organised for the two storey homes, a tidy site every night, and a walk-through with you at the end. We drive past our work every day, and our customers are our neighbours. Whether it is a single room in Postgate or a full exterior on a 400 square metre lakes home, the standard does not change.

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Painters on scaffolding repainting a large two storey home in Whitby

Freshly painted village shopping centre in Whitby

Commercial Painting Whitby

Commercial painting in Whitby centres on the village the consortium built: the Whitby Shopping Centre, which holds almost all of the suburb’s retail, the professional offices and services around it, and Whitby Collegiate on the old Duck Creek golf course site. It is a neighbourhood scale commercial scene, and it runs on neighbourhood rules: the shops keep trading, the school keeps teaching, and the program fits around both.

We schedule commercial jobs in stages and outside trading hours where needed, keep access ways and signage clear, and use durable commercial coatings specified for high wear and easy cleaning. Being based in the suburb makes commercial aftercare simple: if a touch up is needed, we are already here. If you run a business in Whitby and the building is letting the brand down, we will quote it free and plan the work around your trading, not ours.

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Common Paint Problems We Fix in Whitby Homes

After years of painting in our own suburb, we see the same failures again and again. If any of these sound familiar, you are not alone:

Salt air off the inlet. Covered in the exterior and roof sections above. Whitby’s shore streets sit directly on a tidal estuary, and salt drives rust and rot in coastal houses, worst in the unwashed areas under eaves and behind downpipes. The countermeasure is unglamorous and effective: wash the salt off, treat corrosion early, and use coating systems chosen for the shore.
Asbestos era materials. Homes built from the 1940s to the 1980s can carry asbestos in textured ceilings, fibrolite wall and wet area linings, eaves and soffits, and old roof sheeting, and Whitby’s 1980s wave is fibrous cement dominant on the council records, seven of nine homes sampled. Nobody sands, scrapes or blasts those surfaces in our team until they have been tested. One balance line matters here: fibrous cement on the suburb’s 2020s builds is the modern product and carries no asbestos. The era, not the material name, decides the testing conversation.
Lead paint in the first wave. Whitby has no pre-1970 housing at all, the suburb began in 1970, so lead is a smaller story here than in older suburbs, and we say so honestly. It is a first wave question only: original paint layers on the earliest 1970s homes, when many New Zealand paints still carried lead, and anything carried into the early 1980s. You cannot tell by looking, test kits can, and on pre-1982 homes we test first and plan the prep accordingly.
Cracking in monolithic and texture coated cladding. The 1990s and 2000s texture coat homes, including on our own street, depend entirely on their coating and control joint sealants. Hairline cracks and tired sealants are a recoat trigger, not a cosmetic footnote, and prep on this era of housing is more demanding than most, especially on big two storey forms.
Tired iron roof coatings. Covered in the roof painting section above. Iron roofs dominate the suburb’s first two decades, and once their coatings chalk and lift, rust follows at the laps and fixings, fastest on the inlet shore. Tile roofs, the later waves’ share, need their own conversation about trims and flashings rather than roof paint.
Chalky, faded and flaking paint. With 2,094 hours of sunshine a year on the regional normals and New Zealand’s high UV, inlet facing walls, which face north across the water, chalk and fade years ahead of the shaded faces, and dark colours fade fastest. Old paint has to be washed, de-chalked and sanded back before new paint has anything to grip.
Rot in weatherboards and joinery. Salt plus moisture drives rot in timber, and wood is the wall material of the whole 1970s wave. Weatherboard ends, window sills and boards near ground level on shaded and shore sections are the usual failure points. We cut out rotten timber and replace it with new primed timber before painting, so the repair disappears into the finished wall.
Mould and algae on shaded walls. Covered in the mould removal section. The hill streets under the bush, the shaded side of the lakes and south walls under mature planting stay damp through the wet months, and the green film follows.
Water based paint over old oil based enamel. The classic failure in the suburb’s first wave interiors, now on their second and third repaints: new water based coats peel off unsanded oil based enamel on doors, skirtings and window frames, because the gloss gives the new paint nothing to hold. The enamel has to be sanded and de-glossed, or primed with the right bonding primer, before topcoats go on. Prep decides these jobs.

How Much Does House Painting Cost in Whitby?

The question everyone asks first: what will it cost to paint my house? The honest answer is that it depends on size, condition and access, and Whitby has one cost fact that overrides the others: the homes are big. Here are realistic guide prices:

Job	Typical guide price
Full exterior repaint, 3 bedroom weatherboard home	$8,000 to $15,000
Full interior repaint, 3 bedroom home	$6,000 to $11,000
Roof painting, corrugated iron	$4,500 to $9,000
Single room repaint	$800 to $1,500

These are guide prices to help you budget, and they describe a standard three bedroom home. Many Whitby homes are much bigger than that standard, a third of the homes we sampled across the suburb are 240 square metres or more, so Whitby jobs often price at or above the top of these ranges on size and access alone. The only accurate figure is a written quote after we have walked the property, which for us is a short trip. What changes the price?

Size and height. This is Whitby’s big one. Two storey and split level forms are a hallmark of the suburb from the 1970s on, and more wall, more trim and more access work is simply more job. A 400 square metre lakes home is not priced like the three bedroom standard, and any quote that pretends otherwise is guessing.
Preparation. Often half the job or more on an older Whitby home. Salt washing and corrosion treatment on the shore streets, asbestos testing on the 1980s fibrous cement wave, lead testing on the first wave, and decades of layered paint all take time, and any quote that looks cheap usually got cheap by shrinking the prep. That is the corner that fails first.
Scaffolding and access. The lakeside and shore streets are level and ladder friendly for single storey work. The two storey hill homes need scaffold, which published Wellington guides price at $2,000 to $5,000 on top of the paint work. We organise the access as part of the quote, you do not have to arrange it yourself.
Exposure and paint system. Inlet frontage homes need coastal rated systems, shaded hill streets need mould resistant systems, and texture coated homes may need elastomeric coatings. The right system costs a bit more up front and lasts years longer.
Old materials testing and handling. If your pre-1990 home tests positive for lead paint or asbestos containing materials, controlled methods, containment and proper disposal add time and cost. It is money that has to be spent for the job to be safe and legal.

We give free, no obligation written quotes with the work broken down, so you can see exactly what the prep, access and coatings cost. No hidden extras halfway through the job. That is not how we do business, and in our own suburb it never could be.

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What to Know About Painting Whitby Homes

Whitby is one planned suburb with five building waves, and painting here well means knowing which wave and which shoreline you are standing on. We do not visit Whitby, we are based here, at 89 The Masthead, and we paint these streets every working week. Here is the local knowledge that shapes how we quote and paint across our own neighbourhood.

The original Adventure neighbourhood (5024) is where Whitby began: the first subdivision around Spinnaker Drive, Discovery Drive and Ayton Drive, sold from 1970, with 5 Spinnaker Drive the suburb’s first house, occupied in May 1971, and Discovery School opening in 1976. The homes are the 1970s wave: wood walls under iron roofs in seven of the eight council records we sampled, several of them already two storey or split level, on sections climbing from the lakes toward the hills. Painting here is first wave painting: earliest paint layers to test, enamel heavy interiors, and iron roofs on their third or fourth coating cycle.

Postgate (5024) is the suburb’s south west, about 3,100 people, with Postgate School from 1981 marking its wave. Its streets, Omapere Street among them, carry the 1980s layer at its most concentrated: fibrous cement walls under iron roofs, the asbestos era’s signature build. Painting in Postgate starts with identification and testing more often than anywhere else in Whitby, and quotes here are honest about that from the first visit.

Endeavour West and Endeavour East (5024) are the eastern neighbourhood, Adventure School opening in 1989, and the suburb’s highest incomes, a median of $71,300 in Endeavour West. Leeward Drive, Exploration Way and Adventure Drive hold the inlet shore streets and some of the biggest homes in the suburb, 300 square metre plus builds among the samples, where the painting is executive scale: salt washed shore prep, two storey access, and coating systems specified for a waterfront environment.

Whitby Lakes and the eastern shore (5024) are the modern face: the artificial lakes the suburb was built around, with their loop walkways, Navigation Drive’s 2010s mixed material homes, and the shore streets of The Masthead and Joseph Banks Drive, 1990s and 2000s executive homes in brick, stone, roughcast and wood under tile and iron. Our own base is on The Masthead, so these are literally our neighbours. The growth hills behind are still climbing, Banks Boulevard, Cartographer Way and Topsail Way carrying the 2010s and 2020s streets, where the work is new home colour and first repaints.

Pauatahanui and Judgeford (5381) are the rural fringe this page serves, the villages and lifestyle blocks east along SH58 and the Paekakariki Hill Road, just along the road from our base. Pauatahanui village is heritage led: Taylor-Stace Cottage, built in 1847 and the Wellington region’s oldest surviving house, stands there, and it has a Whitby link we enjoy telling: in 1969 it was bought and restored by Huapai Properties, the original Whitby development consortium itself. Painting out here is farmhouses, lifestyle homes and sheds under the hills, planned as full programs because the properties are big and the weather comes straight down the valley.

Wherever you are in Whitby, the pattern is the same: the wave tells us the materials, the materials tell us the prep, and the shoreline tells us the exposure. That is the difference between a painter who works in Whitby and one who lives here. Call us for a free quote and we will come and read your house properly, it is a short walk.

Our Step-by-Step Professional Painting Process

Free Consultation

We visit your Whitby home, from the Adventure streets to the growth hills, look at the surfaces and access, test older paint for lead where the era fits, flag anything that needs asbestos testing, and give you a written quote with the work broken down. No obligation, no pressure.

Careful Area Setup

We protect your floors, furniture, gardens and paths, set up safe access and scaffold for the two storey and split level homes, and keep the site tidy and secure from day one.

Thorough Surface Preparation

We wash the surfaces (soft wash only on asbestos era materials, never a waterblast), scrape and sand back to sound paint, treat mould, salt and rust, repair rot and cracks, and prime bare timber and repairs the same day they are exposed.

Premium Paint Application

Two coats of premium paint matched to your street’s exposure, coastal systems on the inlet shore, mould resistant systems in the shaded streets, and winter starts timed so paint never goes onto a damp, cold wall.

Inspection & Full Clean-Up

We walk the whole job with you, fix any touch ups on the spot, remove all masking and rubbish, and leave your home cleaner than we found it, with the workmanship guaranteed.

Not in this suburb? We also paint homes across nearby Paremata, Papakowhai, Aotea, Plimmerton, Titahi Bay and Tawa, so get in touch for a free local quote.

Why Choose Us, Your Trusted Painting Company in Whitby

Capital Painting Services is a family owned and operated painting company based in Whitby, proudly serving Porirua and the wider Wellington region. Led by Phil, we are passionate about helping homeowners and businesses protect and enhance their properties with high quality interior, exterior, and roof painting services, all backed by guaranteed workmanship.

Why do Whitby homeowners choose us?

We are actually based here: 89 The Masthead, Whitby. Not a service area on a list, our home base, on a Cook themed street in the suburb we paint. Quotes are minutes away and aftercare is a neighbour calling back, not a ticket in a queue.
We know Whitby houses: the 1970s wood and iron first wave, the 1980s fibrous cement wave, the texture coat executive homes and the lakes growth streets. We can usually tell you your home’s era and likely materials from the street name alone.
Prep-first, always: We would rather talk you out of a cheap paint job than take your money for one that fails. Inlet salt and hill shade punish shortcuts from both directions.
Old-home safety, sorted: Lead testing on the first wave’s earliest paint, and asbestos era materials tested before anyone sands, scrapes or washes them. No guessing with your family’s health.
Fixed quotes, no surprises: The price we quote is the price you pay. The work is broken down in writing, so you can see the prep, access and coatings for yourself.
We organise the access: Scaffolding for Whitby’s many two storey and split level homes is sorted by us, with our own suppliers, as part of the quote.

FAQs

It depends on size, condition and access, but as a guide, a full exterior repaint of a three bedroom weatherboard home in Whitby typically runs $8,000 to $15,000, a full interior $6,000 to $11,000, and roof painting $4,500 to $9,000. One honest Whitby note: homes here are bigger than the standard those guides describe, a third of the homes we sampled are 240 square metres or more, so many Whitby jobs sit at or above the top of the ranges on size alone. We quote free after walking the property. See the cost section above for the full guide table.

Many do: published Wellington guides put painters at $60 to $85 an hour. We do not work that way. Every Capital Painting Services job is quoted as a fixed price in writing before we start, with the prep, access and coatings broken down, so the price cannot drift with the weather or the clock. You know the full cost before a brush comes out.

For most Whitby homes, a full exterior repaint runs from several days on a straightforward single storey home to one to two weeks on the big two storey and split level homes, which sit at the longer end on access and wall area alone, and an interior repaint of a typical home takes several days. Older homes needing era testing, rot repairs or extensive crack stopping sit at the longer end. Your written quote includes the expected timeframe, and we keep you posted as the job runs.

There could be, and that is exactly why it gets tested before anyone touches it. Asbestos was widely used in New Zealand homes from the late 1930s to about 1990, in fibrolite and other fibrous cement sheet, textured ceiling coatings, eaves and soffit linings and old roof sheeting, and Whitby’s 1980s wave is fibrous cement dominant on the council records. One balance line: fibrous cement on the suburb’s newest builds is the modern product and carries no asbestos. Testing is cheap and quick, and if a surface does test positive, it is either left undisturbed or handled by licensed removal before painting.

For most two storey work, yes, and Whitby has a lot of two storey and split level homes. We organise the scaffold as part of the quote with our own suppliers, so you never have to book or safety check a scaffold company yourself. Published Wellington guides price scaffolding at $2,000 to $5,000 on top of the paint work where it is needed. Single storey shore and lakeside homes stay ladder simple, and the quote says so.

Yes, completely. Salt spray off the Pauatahanui Inlet corrodes fixings and roof fasteners and settles into paint films, worst in the sheltered spots rain never rinses, under eaves and behind downpipes. Painting for the shore means washing the salt off first, treating corrosion before coating, and choosing paint systems made for a coastal environment. Painting over salt is the most common reason shore repaints fail early, and on our own streets we are not about to do it.

Yes to both, and the second answer is the point of this page. Quotes are free and in writing, with the work broken down. And we are based at 89 The Masthead in Whitby itself: this is our home base and our own neighbourhood, not a suburb we travel to. Call 022 071 5878 and we will book a time that suits, we are only minutes away.

Ready to Give Your Whitby Home the Paint Job It Deserves?

Ready to give your Whitby home the paint job it deserves? Whether it is a first wave Adventure home ready for its next twenty years, a Postgate fibrolite home that needs era aware prep, or a lakes executive home getting its first real colour, we would love to help, you are our neighbours. Call us today for a free quote, and let’s make your place look its best.

Capital Painting Services: professional house painters in Whitby. Interior painting, exterior painting, roof painting, plastering, pressure washing and more. Family owned and operated, led by Phil, based at 89 The Masthead in Whitby and working right across Porirua and Wellington. Call 022 071 5878 for your free quote.