Limerick Painting & Decorating

Every member of our team is a fully qualified and possess years of experience. We don’t subcontract to whoever’s available that week, the person who quotes your job is the person who understands what it needs, and the crew who show up know the standard we work to.

We’re also fully insured, including public liability cover, so you’re protected from the moment we step through your door. Ask any painter for proof of insurance before they start work. If they can’t produce it, that’s a red flag. We can, every time.

Quality shows in the details most people never think to ask about: correct surface preparation, correct drying times between coats, masking that protects your floors and fittings, and a clean site handed back to you at the end of each day.

The paint we use matters as much as the skill applying it. We work almost exclusively with trade grade paints from Dulux Trade and Fleetwood, not the retail tins you’d find on a DIY shelf.

Trade paint costs more for a reason. It has higher pigment density, better opacity, and superior adhesion, which means fewer coats, more even coverage, and a finish that holds its colour and resists wear for years rather than months. On a rental property or a busy family home, that difference in longevity is the difference between repainting in three years or ten.

We match the product to the job. we use high quality exterior masonry paint which is formulated to withstand Irish weather, this matters a lot more here than in most of Europe. The trade paint we use gives us a scrubbable, durable finish for high traffic areas like hallways, kitchens, and children’s bedrooms. For period properties we use breathable coatings that let old walls do what they were built to do, rather than trapping moisture behind a modern impermeable paint.

We’re happy to talk through product options with you before we start, and we’ll always explain why we’re recommending a particular paint for your specific walls and conditions.

Painting a house in Limerick or Clare isn’t the same job as painting a house anywhere else. By treating it that way is where a lot of painting jobs go wrong. A large part of the housing stock across Limerick city and county, and towns like Ennis, Newcastle West, and Adare, is made up of period properties. There are many Georgian, Victorian, and early 20th century homes with solid stone or lime plaster walls, these buildings need to breathe. Sealing them with the wrong paint traps moisture inside the wall, which leads to damp, blistering and paint failure within a year or two. At Limerick Painting & Decorating we know how to identify these properties and prepare and paint them correctly. We use breathable, vapour permeable products where they’re needed.

Damp is a live issue across this region generally and not just in older buildings. Our climate means we routinely deal with condensation, damp in bathrooms, kitchens, rising damp in older ground floor walls and penetrating damp on exposed gable ends. Before we paint over a damp patch we identify the cause and address it. We do this because painting over damp without treating it is a waste of our time and your money.

For homes closer to the Clare coastline, from Kilrush, Kilkee and out toward the Loop Head peninsula. Salt laden air accelerates the breakdown of exterior paintwork significantly faster than inland properties experience. We select exterior coatings rated for coastal exposure and pay particular attention to preparation on render and masonry. Since a coating is only as good as the surface it’s applied to.

This is knowledge you build by working on hundreds of local properties, this is not something you can pick up from a paint tin label. This is a big part of why customers across Limerick and Clare come back to us, and why they refer us to their neighbours.