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Our Specifications

Mission Statement
Areas Covered
Interior Specifications
Exterior Specifications
Payment Terms
Bank Reference

Our Schedule
Insurance Coverage
Trade Reference
Notice to Start
Size of Contracts
Glossary of Terms
 
Mission Statement

Did you know that:

A newly decorated home (or office, school room, etc.) will cheer you up, brighten your life and make you feel happy and positive.

We at J. P. Taffe Decorating understand this. It is our business and we enjoy doing it.

From us you will receive good service and a smooth, even finish and colour.

We provide painting and decorating services to individuals in London from our Putney based company, as well as to corporate clients such as schools, leisure centres, and property consultants.

In the context of redecoration, we are also happy to provide carpentry, guttering, pointing and any other repair services to our customers.

52% of our work is through previous clients and recommendations... a statistic we believe speaks for itself.


Areas Covered

We cover London: South West, Central + West, as well as North Surrey. Our own offices are based in Putney.


Interior Decorating Specifications

For walls and ceilings:
  • Strip existing coverings where applicable
  • Remove areas of blown plaster as needed and skim finish, making good new to old plasterwork
  • Rake out, fill and smooth cracks; seal all repaired and water stained areas with one coat of Alkali Resisting Primer
  • Size and line surfaces with 1000 grade lining paper and apply one mist coat
  • Apply 2 coats of either matt vinyl emulsion, vinyl silk, eggshell or oil paint (according to your requirements)

For woodwork:
  • Wash down, sand, fill and make good
  • Prime exposed areas and apply 1 undercoat and 1 top coat of gloss paint or 2 coats of eggshell paint
  • Sand down between coats


Exterior Painting Specifications

For woodwork:
  • Where paint coatings are flaking, bubbled, built up in corners or unstable, these will be burnt off, or removed by raking with a shave hook to bare timber.
  • The surfaces washed down then sanded with abrasive until smooth, and filled either with linseed putty or wood filler.
  • No cellulose fillers will be used on timber.
  • Defective putty to be raked out, rebates primed and putty re-run.
  • Bare timber to be given 1 priming coat of oil based primer.
  • Bring forward with 1 undercoat and 1 gloss coat.
  • Timber will be sanded down between coats.
For stonework:
  • All loose, flaking and unstable coatings to be scraped, wire brushed, burnt or otherwise removed.
  • Crumbling stonework to be hacked off and refilled with either cement-based or "Toupret" filler.
  • Cracks to be raked out, filled and smoothed, and repaired areas to be given 1 coat of exterior stabilising primer.
  • Surface then to be painted with 2 coats masonry paint.


For inronwork:
  • Remove rust and deteriorated paint by wire brushing.
  • Prime with red lead wherever previous coating is broken.
  • Apply 1 undercoat and 1 top coat gloss paint.


Payment Terms

All prices featured on our quotations exclude VAT. We naturally tell you how much VAT you will be expected to pay.

Wallpaper is not included, however all other materials are included and our quotes are for Sikkens Permoglaze paints which you should take into account if for some reason you should prefer another type of paint.

Most colours are available by computer mixing. If however your choice of colour necessitates the use of another brand, our quote may increase.

A 40% deposit will be required within 5 days of commencement. For contracts over £2000 in value, the deposit amount is negotiable.

Bank Reference

Alliance & Leicester, Giro Bank PLC, Bootle, Merseyside, GIR OAA
Account: J. P. Taffe Decorating Ltd


Our Schedule

Our philosophy is to be totally flexible. To accommodate the needs of our customers, we can work evenings, nights and week-ends as well as a normal schedule. An excellent case in point is Vardon Leisure and Fitness Centre where the need for minimal disruption during public opening hours led to our conducting all of the redecoration work at night. We will endeavour to work to your requirements.


Insurance

J. P. Taffe Decorating are fully covered by Public and Employer's Insurance. Our on-site staff are 100% trustworthy, competent painters.


Trade Reference

The Decorating Centre
2 Filmer Road, Fulham, London SW6


Notice to Start

We can usually commence work within one week's notice. However we will do our utmost to accommodate you should you need us to start immediately.


Size of Contracts

We are happy to undertake contracts from £500 to £100,000.


Glossary of Terms

Making good This means racking out and filling all cracks and holes. We will also "feather out" areas of plasterwork to upgrade the surface. Making good will leave a surface sound. It will not make an imperfect surface perfect, or smooth out existing ridges and undulations.
Lining Where the plasterwork is cracking or imperfect, or there is a possibility of further cracking, lining paper is used. We use 1000 grade lining paper and will hang it butt-jointed so that seams are not noticeable. If needed, this will upgrade a surface more than making good.
Plastering By this we mean actual resurfacing of an area, wall or entire room by a tradesman plasterer. This is often the only way to obtain a perfect surface. It is either by use of two coats of plaster or by fixing plasterboard and skimming.
Rubbing down By use of abrasives. It has a number of purposes: remove nibs, flaking paint and imperfections. It provides a "key" for new paint and retards excessive build-up of paint on the woodwork. On woodwork we will rub down the entire surface before painting and "flatting down" with fine abrasive is done between coats.
Wall and ceiling finishes We will normally use paint rollers and "cut in" with a brush. Paint rollers can leave a heavy texture. We will avoid this by not applying paint too thickly. Some texture is however unavoidable, particularly with emulsion paints.
Filling This is part of making good. Internally we normally use cellulose fillers on walls and ceilings. On external surfaces we use proprietary oil stopper, flexible fillers are used for gaps between wood and plaster, for example where skirting and architraves meet walls.
Rotten timber Rotten timber, particularly on exteriors, is not always noticeable at time of quotation. If found this will be pointed out to you. Rot most often occurs on timber sills and on the lower rails of a sash window. Timber sills cost approx. £90.00 to cut out and replace the external section. Lower rails of sash windows can sometimes be repaired for approx. £90.00. Sash replacement is from £160.00, as this necessitates a window being made up by a joiner, then fitted with new sash cords, reglazed, and repainted with three coats internally and externally.

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Mailing address:
J. P. Taffe Decorating
14 Grosvenor Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1HT

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