A small, directly-employed crew, covering Newcastle and Northumberland since 2012 — no subcontracted strangers, no rushed second coats.
North & Coast Decorating began with a single decorator working across Tyneside, taking on jobs that had been done cheaply and badly the first time round — a repaint over unfilled cracks, a wallpaper seam that had already opened, a render coat that trapped damp instead of keeping it out. Fourteen years on, we're a small crew rather than a one-man operation, but the reason for existing hasn't changed: most decorating problems aren't about talent, they're about someone cutting a corner they shouldn't have, and we'd rather take the extra day than leave a job that comes back to bite the client in a year.
Every decorator who works on your job is directly employed by us, not a subcontractor brought in for the week. That matters for two reasons: the people who quote the job are the same people who finish it, so nothing gets lost between an estimate and the work actually done, and the standard of work is consistent from one job to the next because it's the same small group of people, trained the same way, applying the same care. We keep the team deliberately small rather than growing quickly, because quality control gets harder the moment you're managing crews you don't know well.
We carry full public and employer's liability insurance, and every job we complete is covered by our own guarantee — if something we've done doesn't hold up the way it should, we come back and put it right, not just apologise for it. Certificates and documentation are available on request, which matters particularly for commercial clients and managing agents who need paperwork on file rather than a verbal assurance. We'd rather a client asked to see proof of cover before work starts than find out it mattered after something went wrong.
Most of our work happens in houses people are still living in, so we treat every site the way we'd want a tradesperson to treat our own home: floors and furniture properly protected rather than a token dust sheet, a tidy site at the end of every working day rather than a mess left for the morning, and fittings and belongings put back exactly where they were found. We keep noise and disruption to sensible hours, communicate clearly if a job's timeline needs to shift, and never leave a client guessing about what happens next.
We cover Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Shields, Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, Ponteland, Darras Hall, Morpeth, Alnwick, Hexham and Durham, along with most of Northumberland and Tyne & Wear within a roughly 30-mile radius. Jobs range from a single room in a Jesmond flat to full exterior repaints on the large family and town houses around Darras Hall and Ponteland — the crew and the standard of work stay the same regardless of scale.
Free, no-obligation quotes — usually within 48 hours of a site visit.