nederlandbouwsector@gmail.com A ceiling in the same colour as the walls is always possible, and it works best in small, high or sloping rooms. The transition between wall and ceiling disappears, so the room looks calmer and less divided. The colour choice costs nothing extra with us as long as you stay with RAL 9010 or 9016. However, … Read more
With water-based wall paint the smell is usually gone within a day, and often much sooner. For Sigmatex Superlatex Matt, Sigma even puts it this way on the technical data sheet: no troublesome odour, rooms can be used again straight after painting. That is because this wall paint is solvent-free and emission-free. If you still smell something a … Read more
Streaks on a freshly painted wall almost never come from the paint itself, but from the way it was applied or from the surface underneath. Sigma’s application guidelines point to four causes: thinning too much, working outside the prescribed temperature and humidity, a surface that absorbs unevenly, and a wall that was not yet dry. … Read more
If your walls are handed over ready for wallpaper, the finishing takes 3 days: hanging renovlies lining paper, filling joints and one coat of emulsion. With a few days’ margin for the site survey and scheduling, that comes to about a week between key handover and moving in. If the walls first need a thin skim coat of plaster, allow about two weeks. Choose … Read more
Latex and wall paint are the same thing: “latex” is simply everyday speech for water-based wall paint, and there is no rubber in it.
RAL 9010 and RAL 9016 are the two standard whites in our price list; any other RAL colour costs €1.50 per m² extra.
Finishing your home while you live in it is perfectly possible: we work room by room, so you can keep using the rest of the house.
At handover you record the condition in which your walls and ceilings are transferred to you, because what you do not have noted down is hard to report later.
Walls first, then the woodwork: lacquer work on window frames and doors comes after the wall work.
Before the key handover you arrange three things for your finishing: the condition in which your walls are handed over, your handover date with us and your neighbours.