Interior painting
Painting the walls and ceilings inside a property, including the masking, filling and cutting in that comes before the roller. All 23 businesses carrying out Interior painting are painters and decorators. Their work is concentrated in London and Portsmouth, with further businesses in Maidstone, Reading and Walton-on-Thames, while 22 have their own website.
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Painters & decorators who do interior painting
Worth knowing
- The businesses have a median rating of 5.0 across 19 rated businesses, with ratings running from 4.7 to 5.0. The most-reviewed business has 139 reviews, within 740 reviews in total.
- Published pricing research covers 6 variants of this work per job across 12 UK towns, researched August 2026. Radiator and pipework prices are published per radiator across the same 12 UK towns and research period.
- The work is also called painting inside a house, painting walls and ceilings and room painting.
- 22 businesses also offer exterior painting, 17 offer wallpapering and 9 offer commercial decorating. Filling and preparation and woodwork and door painting are each also offered by 3 businesses, while 2 offer wallpaper stripping and 1 offers ceiling painting.
- Interior painting resolves Paint Peeling Off The Wall, Paint Bubbling Or Blistering, Brown Stains Bleeding Through New Paint, Patchy Paint And Roller Marks and Nicotine Stains On The Ceiling.
- The businesses include 3 in London, 3 in Portsmouth, 2 in Maidstone, 2 in Reading and 2 in Walton-on-Thames. London businesses include 1 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 1 in Havering and 1 in Sutton.
Common problems
Paint Peeling Off The WallPaint is lifting away from the wall in sheets or flakes, often taking the coat underneath with it.Paint Bubbling Or BlisteringRaised bubbles or blisters have appeared in the paint film, sometimes while it was still wet.Brown Stains Bleeding Through New PaintYou painted a wall or ceiling and a brown, yellow or grey mark has come straight back through the fresh coat. That is stain bleed-through: something under the new paint is dissolving into wet emulsion and rising as it dries. Extra coats of the same water-based paint almost never fix it: each coat gives the stain fresh solvent to travel in. Seal the mark with a proper stain-blocking primer once the source is dead (no live leak), then recoat. If the patch is still damp, spreading, or you cannot tell historic from live, stop painting and sort the moisture first, then book a painter and decorator if you want it done evenly.Patchy Paint And Roller MarksThe finished wall is uneven: visible roller lines, darker patches, or a frame of different sheen round the edges.Nicotine Stains On The CeilingA yellow-brown film has stained the ceiling (and often the walls) where someone smoked. Fresh emulsion alone usually fails: nicotine and tar dissolve into water-based paint and show again. Wash, seal with a proper stain block, then recoat the full surface.