ICI Dulux Heritage range of paint colours are the outcome of comprehensive research
from the colour experts of Dulux trade.

As an ICI Dulux Trade Partner our painting and decorating teams, are experienced in working with the heritage products in properties such as Grade I, Grade II listed buildings to traditional manor houses, country estates including the National Trust, exclusive private clubs and golf clubs in the following areas Amersham, Aylesbury, Denham, Chesham, Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe, Oxford, Stoke Poges, Thame, Windsor, Windlesham, Wentworth, West London.

Our highly skilled painters and decorators and supervisors are trained in advising on the shade and finish of these authentic colours to add definition and character.  The Creams and Stones are traditional through history as flexible shades to enhance light, space and warmth – linen white, grecian white, umber white, ochure white, green marl, pale walnut, biscuit beige, dark stone, terra ombra and mid umber heritage colours are popular.   Currently the fashionable neutral paint colours are natural hessian, natural calico and not forgetting, cookie dough.

Click here if you would like a FREE Dulux trade heritage range colour card.

Farrow & Ball paint has a more chalky style of finish and is widely used in period
properties to keep to a natural, traditional finish.

We often use their Estate Emulsion on properties throughout the Thames Valley and manyWest London areas like Hayes, Acton, Park Royal and also Iver Heath in Berkshire and in the exclusive Surrey areas.  Farrow & Ball still make paint in Dorset, one batch at a time, a tradition since the company was founded and remains one of only a few with a full range of traditional and modern paint finishes of the highest quality.

The depth and beauty of their paint colours are unmatched by other paints.  By using more high quality pigments and resins and no low quality ‘fillers’, gives their colours visibly greater depth and purity often referred to as the ‘Farrow & Ball look’.   Manufacturing using naturally occurring pigments, such as Umbers in their purest form, and today continue to use natural ingredients such as Chalk, Lime Putty and China Clay.

The colour accuracy and quality is second to none as they have complete control over every tin of paint and roll of wallpaper produced.  Everything is made in their factory in Dorset exclusively as they don’t allow anyone else to make their products.

Farrow and Ball colours include the following shades, all white, wimborne white, pointing, james white, clunch, great white, white tie, new white, house white, matchstick, string, savage ground, slipper satin, lime white, off-white, cord, cream, cat’s paw, dimity,  joa’s white, archive, oxford stone, London stone, smoked trout, strong white, blackened, cornforth white, pavilion gray, lamp room gray, manor house gray, shaded white, mizzle, hardwick white, French gray, blue gray, pigeon, stony ground, bone, fawn, old white, light gray, mouse’s back, skimming stone, elephant’s breath, dove tale, Charleston gray, London clay, brinjal, middleton pink, calamine, cinder rose, pink ground, setting plaster, dead salmon, fowler pink, red earth, porphyry pink, book room red, terre d’egypte, blazer, incarnadine, rectory red, radicchio, eating room red, charlotte’s locks, picture gallery red, tallow, ringwold ground, farrow’s cream, dorset cream, sudbury yellow, print room yellow, Lancaster yellow, dayroom yellow, citron, yellow ground, babouche, orangery, pale hound, hound lemon, hay, ciara yellow, straw, india yellow, tunsgate green, green ground, cooking apple green, ball green, stone white, olive, churlish green, saxon green, folly green, breakfast room green, calke green, green smoke, vert de terre, lichen, chappell green, castle gray, card room, arsenic, pavilion blue, pale powder, teresa’s green, green blue, light blue, oval room blue, cabbage white, borrowed light, skylight, parma gray, lulworth blue, cook’s blue, blue ground, dix blue, stone blue, pitch blue, drawing room, hague blue, calluna, brassica, pelt, plummet, down pipe, railings, mahogany, tanner’s brown, studio green,  black blue, off-black, pitch black.

Our highly skilled decorators will work with you or your interior designer to gain the desired finish and a perfect result.

If you would like a quotation please click here.

Our painting and decorating division, resin repair damaged and rotten timber on a range of items such as wooden sash windows, doors, frames, facia boards, soffits and gates.

We have carried out many repairs using the repair care system (formally known as Window Care System) and just last year completed projects on small residential properties, Grade 1 and 2 listed properties including a large National Trust Manor House, commercial properties in the following areas West London, Hayes, Watlington, Lewknor, Aylesbury, Thame, High Wycombe, Slough, Staines, Oxford City Centre, Wentworth, Virginia Water and Fulmer.

Click on video link below for demonstration:

Resin Repair on YouTube

ABK was recommended directly from Repair Care to carry out projects including this house in Virginia Water, Surrey

Case Study – Resin Repairs – Roof Light

All ABK Painters & Decorators are Level 1 trained Specialist appliers of the Repair Care System.

So what is the Repair Care System…

The Repair Care System specialises in solutions for the maintenance and conservation of wood decay or damage through the use of the Repair Care Resin System and or the piecing in of the new timber with the resin.

Repair Care has been preserving and protecting external joinery for over 20 years. It has been successfully used on all kinds of buildings from houses to palaces and offers the highest quality durable repairs. The system has proved perfectly acceptable for use on Period and Listed properties including some of those owned and maintained by the National Trust and English Heritage.

In our opinion, this system offers our clients an outstanding and unique solution to the problems associated with decayed or damaged timber. Unlike more traditional filler based repair systems, the resins used in the Repair Care System are based on elastic technology so that they are able to adapt to the changes in movements in the substrate.

The Repair Care System compromises of a range of products, each individually tailored for the completion of small repairs through to large projects. Offering minimal repair turnaround times it allows repairs to be completed and primed within a day in many instances. And finally, through the ability to conserve and repair, rather than replace, the system can offer substantial cost savings whilst helping to preserve the aesthetic appearance of the original joinery.

If the external joinery of your home or property is suffering from the effects of decay, then please  contact us and we will be happy to come and inspect and identify any areas of rot and provide you with a specification as to the most sympathetic and economic repair for the work.

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We know that you might be tempted to employ ‘cash-in-hand’ traders in order to avoid adding 20 percent to the cost of keeping your home in good condition. But, this could leave you vulnerable to being ripped off or having sub-standard work done on your home. Every year over £170 million is stolen from unsuspecting homeowners by rogue traders and the VAT increase in January will be a further incentive for this figure to escalate.

Actually, we know that a low taxation economy stimulates growth. Independent research has shown that reducing the rate of VAT to five percent on the labour element of housing repair, maintenance and improvement work would increase revenue to the Treasury as well as creating more than 55,000 extra new jobs this year alone.

The FMB is part of the Cut the VAT Coalition which believes that reducing VAT to 5 percent for all maintenance and home improvement work would help the Government achieve its target of cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. It would benefit millions of UK homeowners by getting rid of cowboy builders, helping those who cannot afford vital repairs to their homes, bringing empty properties back into use and protecting the countryside.

If you want to add your support or find out more click here.

To help protect you the FMB, in conjunction with Trading Standards, has published its ‘Nail the Rogues’ leaflet which gives advice to householders on how to spot and avoid a rogue trader as well as how to find a reputable trader. A window sticker is also available which can be placed in your front window to warn off rogues. On the back of the sticker there is information about how to spot and get rid of a rogue trader who may be standing on your doorstep.

Rogue traders come in all shapes and sizes. They may look and sound quite professional but one way to spot them is by the lines they may use to try and talk you into parting with your cash. Cold callers may say things like, “I was just passing and I noticed you have loose tiles on your roof”, to frighten householders into doing business with them.

The FMB has some advice for you:

If anyone comes to your door offering home maintenance services you should ask them to leave and don’t engage them in conversation. If they won’t leave, say you do not buy goods and services at the door. If they still won’t leave and you feel intimidated call the police who will always be happy to help with this sort of incident.

If you are thinking of having work done to your home ask friends and family for recommendations or check with a trade association such as the FMB and its Find A Builder website (www.fmb.org.uk/findabuilder).

Always get at least three quotes and use a contract which you can download free of charge on the FMB website.

Finally, never pay the full cost of the project up front.

Source: http://www.fmb.org.uk/ (Email Newsletter)

Mr Shaw, Oxford
Property Owner

Charlotte Hamilton
Askett – Barn Conversion

T Belcher, Site Services Manager
Autotype

John Stevens, Operations Manager
3663 Food Service

This means that here at ABK Painting Division, we have built up our knowledge of and relationship with the leading paint suppliers. We offer free site surveys to domestic, commercial and industrial clients alike during which we carefully assess what will be required of the paint used. During this design stage, we include considerations like light diffusion, temperature, fire resistance, durability, aesthetics and effects on the environment – to name just a few.

If you have specialist requirements then feel free to get in touch to see if we can help. Many clients are surprised to find that our specialist knowledge as designers as well as decorators enables us to suggest solutions that they didn’t know were available. And we use only the highest quality products from leading brands, including but not limited to:

- Crown

- Dulux

- Glidden

- Zoffany

- Sadolin

- Sikkens

- Rustoleum

If you’re a commercial or domestic client with ABK, it’s likely that you’ll have a very specific idea of what you want, based on a refined brand image or the feel of your home. We pride ourselves on working exactly to specifications, because we know that satisfied customers will come back to us time and time again for our proven reliability as a designer decorator Aylesbury.