Telmor

Thanks and hi DIY Guy, you reply was very helpful, it was good to hear some sound information from someone who knows what they're talking about. This guy gave the most reasonable quote at the time, I'd had two others which were crazy prices, this is Reigate and I think the decorators think everyone is rich down here, definitely not so! However, maybe I should have gone for one of the more expensive, maybe they would have done a better job of it.

I'm a total amateur at DIY, though being an old bird, I've done all of my own decoration in the house since I was young, I never had the kind of money needed to get an expert in, but the results have always been reasonable. This is a great site, found it last night when looking for info on painting outside, so I'm very grateful and glad to have found it. Thanks again:D

I had the outside of my house painted just over two years ago,and was told that it would last about ten years, but after less than a year I noticed small cracks appearing in the paint. Other things were happening in my life so I didn't get round to calling the decorator back. Now there are great big sheets of paint peeling off and it looks awful. After many attempts, I finally got a response from the chap who did it. He said that the old paint underneath mustn't have had a stabiliser under it, so that when he painted over the old paint, it would just peel off sooner or later, is this correct? Does anyone on here know much about this, can I challenge him with a good argument about it? I'm really fed up, I paid him in cash, plied him and his mate with tea, biscuits and sandwiches, gave them a decent tip at the end, and can't really afford to have to shell out a second time to have it remedied. Although I paid cash, I do have the typed quote he gave me beforehand, can this be used as evidence? Thanks for any advice you can give me.