Exterior house painting across Hobart.

Preparation is the job — the topcoat is the easy part.

On a Hobart exterior, roughly 75–85% of the work is preparation, application technique and clean-up, not the paint itself. On a weatherboard repaint that often means around seven of ten days on site spent preparing before a drop of finish goes on. That is the difference between a coat that lasts a decade and one that peels through the second winter.

Our exterior process.

1. Wash down. Strip dirt, chalking, salt and grime so the new coating bonds to a clean surface, not to muck.
2. Treat mould and mildew. The damp Hobart climate breeds mould on shaded and southern elevations — we kill it, not paint over it, or it grows straight back through the new coat.
3. Scrape and sand. Remove failed and flaking coatings back to a sound edge. On pre-1970 homes this is done lead-safe under AS 4361.2.
4. Fill, putty and repair. Gap-fill weatherboard joints, re-putty window glazing, fill cracks in render, and treat or replace rotten timber and fascia.
5. Prime bare timber and patches. Every bare board, repair and chalky render patch is primed so the topcoat has something to grip.
6. Topcoat. Quality exterior paints rated for cool, damp conditions, the correct number of coats, applied to AS/NZS 2311 — never onto a damp surface or ahead of rain.
7. Clean up. Gardens, paths, windows and site left clean, rubbish removed, and a walk-round sign-off with you.

Built for the cold, damp maritime climate.

Hobart’s long cool wet stretches keep timber and render damp and feed mould, while salt air off the Derwent adds a corrosion load. That shortens the repaint cycle — most exteriors here want recoating every 7–10 years, sooner on exposed southern and waterfront walls. We choose paints suited to the conditions, time each elevation to the forecast, and never coat damp surfaces — so the film actually cures and lasts.

Working safely at height (WorkSafe Tasmania).

Double-storey homes and steep sites need scaffold or an elevating work platform (EWP), set up and used to WorkSafe Tasmania fall-protection requirements. Scaffolding from which a person could fall more than four metres is high-risk work and is treated as such. Safe access also means we can prepare and coat the high elevations properly rather than skimping off a ladder — you get a better finish up top, not just a safer site.

2026 Hobart exterior price bands.

• Single-storey 3-bedroom: $9,000–$16,000.
• Double-storey or weatherboard: $12,000–$20,000+ (scaffold/EWP and heavy prep included).
• Per square metre: roughly $25–$60/m² depending on substrate, condition and access.
• Render / brick (sound surface): generally lower per m² than failing weatherboard.
• Trim, eaves, fascia & gutters only: priced separately on request.

Why we don’t cut corners.

The cheapest exterior quote is almost always the one that skips preparation — a quick wash and two coats over flaking timber. It looks great on handover and fails fast in this climate. We’d rather give you an honest fixed price that includes the prep the job actually needs, so you’re repainting in a decade, not in two winters.

Got a heritage or weatherboard home? See heritage & weatherboard painting. Roof looking tired too? We also do roof painting & coating, right across Greater Hobart.