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mckennadecorates, Crabtree Road, Birmingham (2026)

27/04/2026

~~GEORGIAN WINDOWS~~

Feb → mid-March: restoring Georgian windows at Packington Estate, Coventry 🪟

Huge thanks to Repair Care & for putting me forward—this is now an ongoing 3-month-a-year project - inside and outside🙏

The brief: draught-proof original single-glazed heritage windows (3–4mm) with no secondary glazing.
Solution: custom staff beads with routed channels + draught strips, plus seals routed into the sashes. Re-corded alongside Jay from the estate team.

Results? “Night and day” difference according to the client—and the windows now run beautifully smooth.

Also stripped & polished most of the hardware (finishing the rest next year—makes a massive difference).

Paint system: Impra primer + PU top coat via (with some on-the-job colour rematching upstairs 🎨)

LOOOTS of Super Finish and a bunch of resin used on these too, can’t wait for the outsides in July!

Loads of footage to turn into reels soon… for now, here are a few shots—plus one of the best work views I’ve ever had.

26/01/2026

Repairing cracks and efflorescence-

Some important stages that were not included in this reel are -

Arch -
removing flaking paint on the arch of its foundation efflorescence- sanding - then glueing painted edge down with Zinsser Peel Stop - then alkali resistant priming with Zinsser Gardz to combat salts and vulnerability in the plaster from the efflorescence- skimming then Gardz again - sand skim - Paint detail till Paint to finish.

Main wall -

Rake crack - sand - Peel Stop - Toupret Fibercryl for flexibility - Fibafuse tape embedded into some skim - 1 full skim - 2nd skim wider so the bump is lost - sand - Gardz - paint - detail fill - paint

Paint - Farrow & Ball Modern Emulsion Wevet

19/01/2026

Nice clean up job I completed Monday - Friday 10 days ago. My first job back in the new year. Client spec was to repair failing paint and cracks in various areas of the house, including a crack on the ceiling meeting the cornice upstairs I couldn’t fit in here.

With this particular job, it was very important I was in and out, so focusing on the problem areas was key, rather than a full makeover of the space. I was due to go on holiday very early Sunday morning and the client was keen to have me out by end of Friday so kept things tight.

The kitchen ceiling and walls had several large cracks that I processed as described usually. Including another in one of the house’s lounge and paneling in the hallway and upstairs ceiling.

This house was not long renovated and decorated so I just needed to amend issues and redo walls and ceilings etc.

All surfaces pre sanded despite not going crazy on sanding back, problem areas processed with Gardz and Peel Stop, to solve salts and glue down broken paint edges and cracks before Fibercryl and fins fuse them skim filler. I used the prep blades which was fun.

Kitchen ceiling was looking funny as cracks and not painted well, also touched up poorly.

Woodwork repaired in places, recaulked and primed and top coated

I used F&B for the first time again in 2.5 years, a paint I used to use a lot of. Dead Flat is decent tbf, tricky in certain colours. Mordern Emulsion is unforgiving, unless prep is tight, but still decent to work with.

Kitchen Ceiling - Caparol Capasilan (best ceiling paint - my go to now)
Walls: F&B Dead Flat Cornforth white & Modern Emulsion Wevet
Woodwork: F&B Dead Flat Wevet

05/01/2026

Leak damage repair job for my Mum. For free of course being a good son.

Builder charged £400 to patch paint the ceiling, the paint started pealing and then blamed my mum saying she shouldn’t have done it so soon after the leak even though it was clearly dry when he painted it and they didn’t explain this either way. In the quote they were saying, “durable finish” “sealing damaged areas” etc, all this “professional” langauage, with zero professionalism in their ex*****on.

When I came to the job it was clear there had been no prep, and lots of flaking paint, both on the ceiling and previous efflorescence from the leak that they had not scraped back and sealed.

I scraped all areas, sanded, Zinsser Peel Stop’d to glue down the scraped back paint, and cracks etc, Gardz’d areas to combat alkali surface from leak and seal vulnerable surfaces, Flexi filled cracks, Painted, skim filled, sanded by hand which was a major pain tbh, Gardz’d again, caulked, spot primed and finish coated then decided to do a couple coats on the walls to clean it all up. Door frame and bottom of door primed and painted. Like I say was a tosh in clean up but still doing all this took me 8 hour max over a couple days as im here on holiday and seeing my mum and friends. Granted you would have to do two trips, given drying time of flexi filler etc, but still shocking how some people operate.

NO JOB TOO SMALL AND ALL THAT.

29/12/2025

RECEPTION MAKEOVER

Lots of prep on this one. Bit too much tbh lol but the finish is 🤌🏻 and I have now decided Teknos Pro 5 is the best emulsion on the market. Hands down. The finish is so fire. Especially when you get it right.

Colours - Lick Taupe 03 and Lick Blue 04 - Teknos and Caparol

All paint supplied by

Skimmed and fiberglass taped lots of cracks; a bunch of bonding; a while tub of Fibercryl; lots of filler; tonne of sanding - Walls cut and rolled; ceiling and Cornice sprayed; woodwork all spray primed; blue cabinets spray finished.

Address

Crabtree Road
Birmingham
B187JT

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+447909822892

Website

http://www.mckennadecorates.com/

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