S Riley Painting & Decorating

19/05/2026

Rained off for the start of this week ☔️🌧️🌦️🌂

So I made my way over to one of my inside jobs in Newick. Some wallpaper stripped in this conservatory room, and the usual pre and repaint.

Back to the exterior tomorrow fingers crossed 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼☀️

01/05/2026

🏡✏️🗄️💻 Office room completed over in Wivelsfield Green this week…

Who would have thought such a small area could need so much work 😅! Iv spent all week in this room tackling so many years of diy and cover ups. All sanded back within an inch of its life 😄, walls and ceilings and woodwork finished in acrylic durable Matt colour matched from Farrow & Ball.

The ceiling was originally artex which I skimmed over, the old ceiling boards were white bouncy so all screws back to the timbers, prepped sealed and skimmed twice.

Then a broken van thrown into the mix for the middle of the week. Finally finish up just in time today.

Colours are slipper satin on ceiling and woodwork and duck green on walls.

27/04/2026

Morning everyone 👨🏻‍🎨🎨

Just an update to say I am not taking on any more work at this current time.

I have been working hard to keep up with the work coming in lately which has me booked until August. I still have around 25 rooms plus more, to sit down and write up which could take me towards Christmas time if they materialise.

I do have a couple of regulars that I am waiting to get round to seeing so if you are one of those don’t panic I will still be pricing the work we’ve spoken about recently.

But I cannot take on anymore new work at this time.

Thanks for understanding 🙏🏼

16/04/2026

First exterior of the year completed 🏡

Over on Fernely park this week, starting the exteriors off with a small one.

Some rotten facias that I replaced with new timber around the front door area. With the facias following around the garage to the back of the house.

All finished with Johnstone's Trade Paints stormshield system.

05/03/2026

Bedroom completed this week 🎨👨🏻‍🎨

Finished in Dulux Trade ~ timeless

With a wallpapered feature wall.

Albany Paint and Wallpaper AF1 on ceilings as always, scuffx for woodwork.

03/03/2026

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Thank you very much to for the donation of a lot of paint for the children. Absolutely amazing.

The vast majority of the construction industry is full of hardworking, honest and genuine tradespeople who will always go that extra mile for something positive and/or to help others which is hardly ever spoken about but I feel it needs to be said and it goes strongly against the small minority who give the industry a bad name and you so often get told off.

Thank you Si again for offering this shed load of paint and bits and pieces just wanting to see it go to helping children!! Brilliant.

02/03/2026

Work experience week 👨🏻‍🎨🫟🔨🔧

This weeks work experience week for Freddy. Sanding doors this morning on the dustless sanding kit…

Some final prep before the rooms ready to paint and paper this week.

30/01/2026

Back to Newick …. 🏡

This weeks room complete with media wall 📺

Finished in farrowandball colours..

Walls ~ Wevet
Media wall ~ Skimming Stone

White ceiling with benjaminmoore Scuffx on woodwork.

21/01/2026

🏡 Small kitchen ~ major repairs 🔨

🚰 🍽️ This week so far … was rectifying a nice newly fitted kitchen that was left quite unfinished with old sockets, chasing in to new sockets, boxing in unfinished and a lot of old tile adhesive all over the place..

All that sorted and now freshly finished in a durable finish and looking lovely and complete.

21/01/2026

A large development built as a live in property I completed in Newick. 🏡

The exterior cladding all completed in sikkens.

Reclaimed beams were sand blasted back and finished off in a wax finish.