Hello “Never Paint Again”, I recently had my holiday house here in Valencia, Spain, coated with one of your products and i am VERY pleased with both the result, and the politeness and helpfulness of the work team who did the painting job. IT LOOKS FABULOUS!!!! AND THE DAMP SMELL HAS GONE TOO.

(In fact please can your saleswoman call us back as my neighbour, who is Dutch, wants a quote for her place too.)

The problem (that is somewhat embarrassing) is that once they left, and yes they DID tell me as the coating is so thick it takes a day to be touch dry and a couple of weeks to fully cure, and me being as daft as a brush, leant on it as I was going out the door! It hasn’t really affected the coating you put on the walls  but I got some on my t-shirt. I went into the kitchen to try and wash it off but it wouldn’t come off and I remembered that your NPA wallcoating is waterproof! (You can see my dilemma yes?!)

So, in essence, how do I clean textured wall coating off my clothes please!

Kindest wishes from Mrs. “A”, Valencia, Spain.

Hello and thanks for emailing us back! I spoke with the team and they did explain (at some length) the drying time of wall coatings but not to worry, these things happen! Despite my 25 years in the trade, i have also done it by accident too! . Basically resin based wall coatings are designed to repel the weather and keep your house dry, as you know, so water will NOT wash it off! The best thing to do is to soak the affected area in a little bit of white spirit, or soak a rag with white spirit or turps and dab it off.

I have posted a link to our retail paint website here, so click the following words and a solution will appear before your very eyes!!!!

White spirit, thinners, turps and textured coating thinner solution

Remember to wash your hands afterwards with washing up liquid or something like swarfega or a similar heavy duty cleaner.

A good tip is to cover your hands in Vaseline before you do it, and then simply wipe the vaseline off afterwards, and then wash your hands.

Good luck and let me know how you get on!

We found this on the internet, apparently by some company called Pego Builders and we thought it was so nice we would share it with our viewers and also give them a free plug (!), (although no idea who they are!), but this free plug is for you chaps! (Hombres?)

BLOG USER QUESTION (copied from recent chat window) :

Hello npa, i see you have a spanish side to your operations, do you have anyone in the javea (costa blanca north) area?

Spanish villa

NPA: Hi, thanks for your question, yes we do have a sub office around the javea area (which also deals with painting jobs and contracts south of valencia city), how can we help you today?

USER: We have a villa on the edge of javea, and we had it painted a few yearsa go but as its a bit exposed to the sea and wind and all that it has cracked, quite badly in fact, can you help us?

NPA: Of course. When you say cracked, what is cracked exactly, the paint or the rendering?

USER: I think you need to come and look at it really…, the crack in the outside wall is quite bad. it starts at rear and goes around lhs side…. Theres a few other stuff too like some damp in the underbuild, or the cellar as some call it, we have a leak in the rear terrace by the upper balcony, and as we had 2 new doors put in last year, they didnot repair the rendering very well around where they put the doors in. Is this something that you lot can do also?

NPA: Yes, again, no problem, if you give us a call on my mobile on 659 354759 (spain only) (or call us free if you are in the Uk on 0800 970 4928) and i’ll take some more details and get someone to take a look, no obligation of course, but we need to take a look to give you a price.

USER: A price for repairing the walls and putting your special wall painting stuff on yes? Cool, how do i do that, phone you yep??????

NPA: Yes thats right, our NPA exterior wall system.  Bes thing 2 do amigo is to take a look at out site which is specifically related to exterior villa and house painting in Spain. You can see it at www.neverpaintagain.es

Thanks for chatting today, speak to you shortly

GB

PHEW! What a week.

Well to recap this week, we have another buoyant sales week despite the credit crunch (sounds like a breakfast cereal for bank managers when you think about it!)

…….and things are looking good. We formally ended our relationship with a group of companies in Spain that we doing some marketing for, so it’s good that we are now focussed back onto the UK, our core market.

We have seen increased activity down in the southwest (Devon and Cornwall), which is good to hear, and our manager in the west country, Mr John Irons, has been rushed off his feet! Bless him. A real grafter of the “old school”! and some superb quality work being done, which is good to hear! Nice chap, i’ve worked with him on and off for the past 24 years! Oh and he does roofing and general building work too, so if you have a medium size project, please do get in touch at Never paint again, as we may be able to price the job for you! (that’s only for Devon and Cornwall though.)

Meanwhile on the south coast, Mr John Day has been hard at work running the south coast dealership “Lifecote” and has seen a large increase in work and in customer enquiries, so again, more good news! (i’m smiling as I write this!)

While the press would have us all believe it’s doom and gloom, some brightness always comes out of bad spot, so mr and mrs consumer, don’t worry, we are here for you!

I think people are worried in general though, with the way things are going, and why not? I mean, petrol, what the hells going on there? Yes I know prices are going up everywhere, but most of the cost of petrol is tax! Utterly ridiculous that we are part of Europe, we have our own oil fields too, but why do we have to pay more than Europe? Try filling up your car in Spain as I did in Valencia last year, and believe me, your money goes a heck of a lot further!

And bills, and food, I mean, somethings got to change really hasnt it?

We at NPA are seeing quite a few people get in touch for a quote, as a lot of poeple have cottoned onto the fact that selling houses in the UK has been become a lot harder of late and as such, it appears as always, that only the houses that are in the best condition and look good from the outside, are the ones that are actually selling!

Ok, it’s fairly obvious i’m going to say that, but the above is not an advert, this is really what’s happening!……and best of luck to anyone trying to sell your home at present, however please understand that this has been on the cards for some time

Anyway, i’m signing off for the weekend now, but reception is still open all weekend so if you want to call us and book a quote to have the outside of your house repaired, sorted and painted, please get in touch!

Have a great weekend

Guy Alexander Bell. Bsc.(hons).Pg.Dp.

Group chairman.

The never paint again group.
www.neverpaintagain.co.uk