Beerwah, Sunshine Coast
Exterior painting in Beerwah, for long-held homes and the newer streets.
Timber walls, fibro eaves and high gables on the older large lots. First repaints on the newer streets off Roberts Road and Pine Camp Road. One written quote, priced wall by wall.
- Since 1985
- /Family-run, locally owned
- /Fully insured
- /Dulux + Taubmans accredited
- /Lead & asbestos qualified
Local context
What this work looks like in Beerwah.
The gable end on a house you've owned for years doesn't get any lower, and the fascia is usually the first timber to go soft and the last anyone wants to climb to. Beerwah has a lot of those houses. At the 2021 Census, 31.3 percent of occupied homes were owned outright and 85.8 percent were separate houses, and council's local plan code describes the older residential areas as relatively large lots typical of a traditional rural town. The same code names the newer subdivisions off Roberts Road and Pine Camp Road, where the likelier job is a first repaint. Two kinds of house, two kinds of exterior quote, often a few streets apart.
What we watch for
Conditions that change the job here.
Beerwah grew on timber. Campbellville had the first mill on the Near North Coast in 1881, the railway opened the district in 1890, and Simpson's Sawmill ran on Simpson Street from 1901. On a timber-clad house that means the full routine, with soft boards replaced before anything is painted, because soft timber is a repair before it's a paint job. Fibro eaves on a house that could pre-date 1990 get tested before anyone sands, and paint that could pre-date 1970 gets a lead test. The weather is drier and hotter than the coast. The Bureau's Beerburrum Forest Station records a January mean maximum of 30.3 degrees, a July mean minimum of 9.5, and 3pm humidity under 50 percent from July to September. Taubmans works between 10 and 35 degrees, so winter mornings wait for the walls to warm and summer coats follow the shade around the house.
How it runs
What to expect.
We walk the house first and say which walls can wait. In Beerwah that call does more work than usual. At the 2021 Census, 20.3 percent of residents were 65 or over and trades workers were the largest occupation group at 18.4 percent, so one owner wants the ladder work taken off their hands with a written scope, and the other can judge preparation and wants to see the primed bare timber and the system named. Both get the same quote: which surfaces are in and out, the prep wall by wall, the paint and the coats, how the high work is reached and whether scaffold is priced. With 46.3 percent of homes carrying four or more bedrooms, access sets the days more than anything. Most full exteriors run five to ten working days, and a two-storey house on a slope takes the long end.
Usually included
- Soft weatherboards replaced before the walls are painted
- Fibro eaves tested, then hand-prepped and coated
- Lead test on timber that could pre-date 1970
- High gables reached by scaffold, priced as its own line
- First repaints on the Roberts Road and Pine Camp Road streets
Two houses, a few streets apart
A long-held timber house and a first repaint are different quotes.
Timber is a repair first
The town grew on sawmills from 1881, and a timber-clad house on the older large lots gets the full routine. Soft boards come out before paint goes on, because a primer only grips the layer under it.
Eaves get tested, then hand-prepped
Fibro from before 1990 can carry asbestos, and Queensland’s guidance bans power tools and pressure blasters on it. Sound sheets are prepared by hand and coated. Removal is its own scope with its own paperwork.
Hotter days, colder mornings
Beerburrum records a 30.3 degree January mean maximum and a 9.5 degree July minimum. Winter starts wait for the wall to pass 10 degrees, and summer coats follow the shade so nothing goes onto a sun-hot wall.
How a Beerwah job runs
Fascia line first, colour chart last.
01
Walk the fascia line.
The owner already knows which corner the weather hits and which board has gone soft. The quote visit turns that into a scope: what gets replaced, what gets stripped, and what can honestly wait a season.
02
Test the eaves and the old layers.
Fibro that could pre-date 1990 and paint that could pre-date 1970 get tested before a sander is unpacked. A positive result means a plan and paperwork first, hand preparation second.
03
Replace, then prepare.
Soft boards come out and new timber gets primed. Greyed boards are sanded back to sound surface, loose paint comes off, then fill, seal and undercoat in that order.
04
Coat it in the dry afternoons.
The Beerburrum station shows August and September as the driest months, at 44.1 and 45.1 mm, with afternoon humidity under 50 percent. Two coats, gutters and fascias in the same run, and a walkthrough in daylight before we pack up.
For agents and property managers
Beerwah rentals and the older stock, documented.
On a Beerwah rental we split the timber repair from the repaint in the quote so the owner can see where the hours went. Lead or fibro test results go in the file with the before and after set, and we deal with the tenant direct on access.
Common questions
What people ask before booking.
The eaves on my Beerwah house are fibro. Can you paint them?
Usually, yes. Queensland’s asbestos guidance says sound asbestos cement can be painted with the usual precautions, but power tools, sanders and pressure blasters must never be used on it. Pre-1990 fibro eaves and soffits can contain asbestos, so we test before anyone starts and prep sound sheets by hand. Removal is a separate scope. More than 10 square metres of bonded sheeting needs a licensed removalist, and anything broken or coming down is a removal question rather than a painting one.
The gables are high and I'm not going up a ladder. How do you reach them?
Scaffold, mostly, and you don’t go up anything. On the large lots in Beerwah’s older streets the ground around the house is usually the easy part. The gable height and what is planted against the wall decide the setup. The quote says how the high work is reached and whether scaffold is priced in, so that line is in writing before we start. It changes the days more than the price: a two-storey house that needs scaffold runs toward the ten-day end rather than the five.
Can we do the weather side this year and the rest later?
Yes, and on a Beerwah house it is often the sensible plan. We price the walls that need more rather than charging the whole house for the worst one, and the quote visit is where we say which ones those are. Chalky north walls and soft fascias usually come first, so the sun-facing elevations lead a staged plan. With 39.6 percent of homes here owned with a mortgage at the 2021 Census, spreading the cost over two seasons is a scope we will write up without being asked twice.
The weatherboards have gone grey and the paint is flaking. Is that still a repaint?
Often, and the difference is in the timber. Taubmans’ data sheet wants weathered, greyed timber sanded back to sound surface and all loose paint removed before its system goes on. Paint lets go on timber because water got behind it, the surface was chalky, or the board underneath went soft, and a primer only grips the layer under it. Soft timber is a repair first. We tell you which boards need replacing rather than painting over them, and anything that could pre-date 1970 gets a lead test before a scraper touches it.
Does a house on one of the newer streets get a smaller job?
Smaller in repair, about the same in preparation. Council names the subdivisions off Roberts Road and Pine Camp Road as the newer streets, and on a first repaint there is usually little failed timber to strip. The makers’ rules still set the sequence: render cured 28 days before paint, loose paint off, two coats minimum. Sanding, filling and sealing still take most of the days. What changes is the system, which is chosen for the substrate rather than borrowed from an older house that needed more.
Do big trees close to the house change the job?
They change the washing and the drying. A wall under canopy stays shaded and damp after rain, and gutters under trees collect litter, so the wash does more work there. The Beerburrum station records 9am humidity of 72 to 73 percent from February to June, so a shaded wall in autumn may start later than the sunny side. Council’s plan asks for mature trees to be kept across the area, and we work around them rather than suggesting they go. Washing that wall once a year afterwards is the cheap habit that keeps it.