Weymouth interior refresh

Short programmes are where corners get cut, and the sills are usually the first casualty. Filling rot and painting over the top of it looks fine on handover day and comes back through within a year — by which point there are tenants in the house and the repair is a much bigger conversation. So the rotten sections came out and were made good properly. On a four-day job that is the step worth protecting, because it is the only one on the list that gets worse if you skip it. Every sill in the house got looked at, not just the two that were obvious from the inside.

The rest of the prep was light, which is the honest position — the house didn't need much. Filling, sanding, cleaning down, and making sure the new colour had something sound to sit on. Then the full colour refresh through the interior, which is the part that actually changes how a house reads to somebody walking through it for the first time.

An empty house helps, and it is worth saying so. With no furniture to work around and nobody needing a room back that evening, the work can be run in the order that suits the paint rather than the order that suits the household — rooms coated and left properly to dry instead of being cut short. Most of the four days came out of that.

The cabinetry was brought back at the same time. Cabinets take more handling than any other surface in a house, and repainted properly they lift a kitchen further than new wall colour does — it is the difference between a place that has been tidied up and one that has been done.

Four days is quick. It was quick because the sequence was worked out before we started, not because anything was left out. The tenants moved into a finished house on the day they were told they could.