Door Painters in Bath

Internal doors take more wear than most painted surfaces in a home. Edges, handles, and kick plates are touched constantly, and the finish needs to be hard-wearing and consistent across the full face of the door, including the top and bottom edges.

We use appropriate primers and hard-wearing topcoats for internal doors. Eggshell is the more popular modern choice for interior painting as it is easier to clean and shows less brush marking than traditional gloss.

Stone-built 18th and 19th century villas and cottages on Entry Hill and Bradford Road in Combe Down have original solid timber internal doors. Build-up on the panel edges and around the moulded profiles causes the crisp lines of the original joinery to become soft and indistinct.

A clean result requires careful abrading or chemical stripping around the panel moulds. Where chemical stripping is needed, we prime the bare timber before finishing — this adds time but produces a noticeably better result.

External doors are exposed to rain, UV, and temperature changes throughout the year. A finish that holds up requires proper preparation — we apply a primer coat on any bare or worn areas, an undercoat, and a hard-wearing topcoat.

We paint external doors in gloss or exterior eggshell depending on the property type. Properties with front door painting requirements often need particular attention to the surrounding stonework and frame condition.

Door frames, linings, and architraves are part of the same decorative scheme as the door itself. Painting the door without attending to the surrounding frame leaves the job looking incomplete. We include frames and architraves as a standard part of door painting work.

Where skirting boards and other woodwork is being done at the same time, such as window frame painting, we combine the work into a single visit and quote accordingly.