Bulger Wicks is a Chiswick-based firm of painters and decorators. We've been working across W6 for more than thirty years, mostly on the period houses and mansion blocks that make up most of Hammersmith.
In a typical month we'll be on a Victorian terrace in Brackenbury Village, a stucco villa near St Peter's Square, a mansion-block stairwell somewhere off Brook Green, and a shopfront on King Street. We do interior repaints, full exterior schemes, wallpapering, plastering, carpentry, and flat-roof coatings with a 20-year guarantee. We are Repair Care International accredited, Which? Trusted Trader rated, and carry £10 million public and employer's liability cover.
Minimum project size is £1,500 plus VAT. For anything above that, the place to start is a free site visit and a written, itemised quotation.
"Their painting and carpentry is a really high standard, they are superfast and competitively priced."
Rebecca M. - TW9
★★★★★
"very impressed with the quality of the work, universally polite and willing to do the best job possible"
Mrs P.H. - SW7
★★★★★
The paint is rarely the problem. The problem is what's underneath. A sash that's let water in for a decade. A run of stucco sealed years ago with the wrong coating, now blown. A sill that needs splicing rather than filling. Painting over any of that wastes everyone's money, and we'll say so at the survey.
Bulger Wicks is a trained and accredited user of the Repair Care International system, which lets us repair rotten window frames, sills, sashes and external mouldings in situ rather than tearing them out. That matters more in Hammersmith than in most of London. The conservation areas (Bradmore, Brook Green, Crabtree, St Peter's Square, the Peabody Estate) make wholesale replacement difficult to consent and often impossible to justify on cost. We repair the joinery and finish the paintwork as one piece of work, with one supervisor on site.
Hammersmith's main-road exteriors take a beating. The borough's own monitoring puts Hammersmith Road, the Broadway, Talgarth Road and the Town Centre among the worst-affected spots in W6 for nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates. Pollution doesn't only dirty a façade. It shortens the working life of the coating underneath, and it does it faster than weather alone would.
We use Dulux as our default exterior system, and we have a direct line to their technical staff for anything unusual. On traffic-exposed elevations we'll generally specify Weathershield and adjust the build-up to suit the substrate. Stucco, soft red brick, painted render and the buff brick of the older mansion blocks all need different things, and we'll set out what each elevation is getting and why in the written quote. Where we suspect extra work may arise once the scaffolding is up, we say so and price the contingency. We start on time and finish on target.
Flat roofs on rear extensions and mansion-block parapets get treated as exterior work rather than as an afterthought. Our flat-roof team is qualified to install Liquid Plastics and Garland systems with a 20-year guarantee, which keeps the bay-window roof and the parapet gutter from coming back as recurring problems.
A stucco villa around St Peter's Square is a different job from a Brackenbury Village terrace, and both are different from a 1920s mansion flat off Brook Green. Cornice depth, panel detail, plaster condition, ceiling height and substrate behaviour change from one to the next.
We prime original timber panelling traditionally so it keeps its depth. We hang heavyweight papers on plaster that's never been quite flat. We cut cleanly into period skirtings without losing the edge, and we prep high ceilings properly rather than rolling over them and hoping. Mansion-block flats bring their own logistics: shared lift slots, no parking, neighbours on every wall, and freeholder rules on hours and access. We plan around all of it before day one, dust-extract through the job, and protect furnishings and floors as a matter of course.
If you're abroad or working long hours, daily photo updates on request.
W6 commercial work splits into shopfronts and small offices on King Street and Hammersmith Road, headquarters and serviced offices around the Broadway, and communal repaints in the mansion blocks under managing-agent contracts.
For shopfronts we can work evenings, Saturday nights and Sundays so you don't lose trading hours. For offices we price against specifications drawn up by surveyors or architects, and we work under their direction once the contract is signed. For communal mansion-block schemes we coordinate access and phasing with the managing agent, work to the cyclical contract date, and keep residents informed of what's happening on their landing.
W6 jobs go wrong, in our experience, when the contractor isn't equipped to deal with what's actually wrong with the property. The rotten sash gets filled instead of spliced. The blown stucco gets coated instead of cut out. The parapet keeps leaking after a fresh top coat. The shopfront repaint blisters within eighteen months because nobody thought about Talgarth Road.
We carry the trades to handle all of that ourselves. Repair Care for the timber, Dulux systems for the paint, Liquid Plastics and Garland for the flat roofs, and our own carpenters and plasterers rather than subcontracted ones. Most of our team have been with us for more than fifteen years and several apprenticed with us. That is the reason the work comes out the way it does.
"No nonsense, professional, high quality and speedy work done with care. Polite, tidy and friendly with excellent communication. They have transformed the house... looks stunning and had lots of compliments already."
Sarah - W6
★★★★★
"Excellent service. Very nice friendly accommodating people. Did a great job at a good price. I would highly recommend them."
Lindsey - W14
★★★★★
"Bulger Wicks did a wonderful job with a full repaint (walls, ceiling and woodwork) in just a few days. The result was flawless, clean, bright and professional."
R.R. - Acton W3
★★★★★
Yes. The palettes differ from one to the next — Brackenbury Village, Brook Green, St Peter's Square and Crabtree each have their own expectations. We'll match what the street uses and flag any change of colour that needs consent before we start.
Yes, noticeably. Traffic-side elevations on Hammersmith Road, Talgarth Road and the streets backing onto the flyover come back for repaint sooner than sheltered rear elevations on the same property. We'll tell you what to expect from whatever exterior system we specify.
Yes. Most of our W6 mansion-block jobs run alongside neighbours who are home. We dust-extract, work to whatever hours the building allows, coordinate the lift slot with the porter, and protect the communal landing on the way in and out. The flat next door usually doesn't know we're there.
The Brackenbury streets are narrow and parking fills early. We work off one short-wheelbase van, carry materials in by hand for the day, and time deliveries for the quieter windows.
Repainting in existing colours, no. In-situ timber repair, no. Changing exterior colours or altering joinery in Bradmore, Brook Green, Crabtree, St Peter's Square or the Peabody Estate, sometimes yes. We'll tell you at the survey.
A site visit, a conversation about what the property actually needs, and an itemised written quotation. No obligation, no charge.
