{"id":1350,"date":"2013-03-31T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:50:18","slug":"painting-and-decorating-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertydecorating.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Painting and Decorating : 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20<\/p>\n

Painting and Decorating for 20 years<\/h1>\n

2013 sees the 20th<\/sup> year of my decorating career. It was twenty long years ago that I first picked up my paint brushes and rollers and started painting and decorating. I have worked in a few places in the UK during this time but now prefer to stay close to home, here in Southend on Sea.<\/p>\n

Over the past 20 years of painting and decorating I have seen a few changes, not only in the painting industry but the economy also, we all have to adapt and a few years ago I also started including DIY and Handyman jobs in the list of services I provide. I feel this offers a complete service to my customers, this came about as my customers often would ask me if I could assemble a flat packed wardrobe for a newly decorated bedroom or hang the odd picture or two, as I know how to do these types of jobs I agreed and now offer this as a service.<\/p>\n

I have undertaken commercial work as well as residential work in my career and painted things from warehouses to high street shops to mansion houses.<\/p>\n

Styles and fashions have changed over the past 20 years from everything being emulsioned to feature walls, either in emulsion or wallpaper. And who can forget the phase of terracotta!!<\/p>\n

\"Champagne<\/p>\n

Painting and Decorating Website and Blog<\/h2>\n

Way back when I started there wasn’t the Internet but have had www.propertydecorating.co.uk<\/a> since 2007 which now includes a painting and decorating tips blog<\/a>, that has over 60 decorating tips and has proved to be very popular.<\/p>\n

I also have two other sites, www.rayfields.co.uk<\/a> and www.improvingyourproperty.co.uk<\/a>, both have blogs also covering DIY and Handyman topics as well as painting and decorating.<\/p>\n

I have also created and written the code for four materials calculators, a wallpaper calculator<\/a>, a ceiling paper calculator<\/a>, a tile calculator<\/a> and a paint calculator<\/a>, these have proved to be very popular with lots of hits per day with people working out their materials. These are used not only by DIYer’s but tradesmen also.<\/p>\n

I enjoy writing for all the blog’s and helping people out who want to do painting and decorating or DIY jobs around the house but are not sure how to go about it. I find this very rewarding.<\/p>\n

New Media<\/h2>\n

Over more recent years I have started tweeting on Twitter<\/a>, all the sites have a Facebook pages<\/a>, I have a Google+<\/a> account as well as LinkedIn <\/a>and a YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

YouTube<\/h2>\n

Most recently I have started to put so video’s up on my YouTube channel<\/a>, I plan to do lots more of video’s when time allows. But feel free to subscribe to my channel and comment on my videos.<\/p>\n

\"Champagne<\/p>\n

Here’s to another 20 years!!!<\/p>\n

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