Repainting Services
A repaint is decided by the coating already on the wall. We test what is stuck, remove what is not, and price the preparation you actually need instead of one blanket allowance.
Starting price
Price after site inspection
Where it is used
Existing homes, apartments, offices and commercial buildings.
Most repaint quotes fail in the same place: they price the paint and guess the preparation. A wall with a sound ten-year-old coat and a wall shedding flakes take the same litres of emulsion and completely different labour. Only one of them holds.
So the inspection starts with adhesion, not colour. We tape-test and scrape suspect areas to find where the existing film still grips, mark the patches that have to come off, and separate hairline settlement cracks from moving cracks that will reopen through fresh paint.
Which Royaltec system goes over an existing coat?
Where the old film is sound, the build-up is short: spot-fill with Royaltec Crack Filler, level with Royaltec Wall Putty only where the surface needs it, then Acrylic Multi-Purpose Cement Primer and the emulsion. Acrylic Economic Emulsion suits bedrooms and low-traffic rooms. Signature Acrylic Emulsion is worth the difference in passages, kitchens and rented property, because the silicone fortification takes repeated wiping and resists fungus.
Where the old film has failed, skip straight to the substrate. Stripped-back plaster that shows white powdery salting needs Alkali Block Primer rather than the standard primer, otherwise the new coat lifts the same way the old one did. Putty over a loose coat is the most common repaint mistake we are called back to correct.
We repaint occupied homes across Madurai, including Anna Nagar, K. Pudur and Tallakulam.
For apartment access, lift rules and society timings, see house painting in Coimbatore.
What’s included
The old coat gets tested
Tape and scrape checks show which walls hold a new coat and which need stripping back.
Repair priced separately
Cracks, spot filling and full-wall levelling appear as their own lines, not one lump sum.
Built around an occupied home
Room order, furniture and drying time are planned around how you actually live.
Cause found before recoating
Damp, salting or movement is identified first, because paint will not hold it back.
The same room, once the surface underneath is corrected
Camera, furniture and lighting stay fixed, so the visible change is wall repair and repainting alone.
Three things an old coat tells you
Peeling and flaking
The film has let go of the surface. Recoating over it buys a few months at most.
Cracks
Hairline shrinkage can be filled. A crack that moves will reopen through any finish.
Patchy damp or salting
White powder or a dark tide line means water is still arriving from somewhere.
Each finding gets a line in the quote
You should be able to see which wall needed what. A repaint priced as a single rate per square foot hides the part that decides how long it lasts.
- Mark the strip-back areasRecord which walls are recoated and which are taken back to a sound base.
- Separate filling from levellingSpot repair and full-wall putty are different quantities and different costs.
- Fix the source before the finishAgree any damp or civil correction before the coating system is approved.
Recoat, spot-repair or strip back?
The condition of the existing film decides which of these three the wall belongs to.
| Sound coat | Partly failed | Failed coat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you see | Dull or dated, still firm | Flaking in patches | Widespread peeling or powder |
| Preparation | Clean, sand, spot-fill | Strip failed areas, feather edges | Remove back to a sound base |
| Primer | Not always needed | On the repaired patches | Full surface, alkali block if salting |
| Effect on the quote | Lowest labour | Mixed, measured by area | Highest labour, lowest surprises later |
The site visit assigns each wall to one of these before any rate is applied.
A repaint in an occupied home is a scheduling problem
Room order agreed upfront
Bedrooms and kitchens are sequenced so the household keeps usable rooms throughout.
Furniture plan in writing
What moves out, what shifts to the centre and what stays covered is decided before day one.
Dust kept to the work area
Sanding and scraping zones are sheeted off from the rooms still in use.
Drying time respected
Recoat intervals follow the product label rather than the crew’s schedule.
The products this service uses
We manufacture the filler, putty, primer and finish, so what goes over your old coat is a matched system.
FAQ
Where the old film is still firmly stuck, yes, after cleaning, sanding and spot-filling. Where it flakes off under a scrape test, no. Recoating a loose film transfers the problem to your new paint, usually within a year.
Interiors typically go five to seven years, and exteriors less depending on exposure. Treat those as planning numbers only. The honest trigger is condition: chalking, flaking, persistent stains or a colour you no longer want.
Usually not across the whole wall. Existing putty that is sound stays. Putty is re-applied where the surface was stripped, damaged or never levelled properly, and that area should be measured rather than assumed.
Most households do. It is planned room by room so you keep a bedroom, a bathroom and a kitchen usable. Sanding dust and drying time are the two things that decide the sequence, and both are agreed at the site visit.
That usually points at moisture rather than paint quality. A shared bathroom wall, a leaking pipe or an outside wall taking rain will fail on its own while the rest of the house holds. The source needs correcting first, otherwise the repaint fails in the same patch.
Yes. Submit the site-visit form and Royaltec will call within 24 hours to arrange a time in Madurai or Coimbatore. The visit produces the itemised quote, with no obligation to proceed.
Book a free site visit for Repainting Services
Tell us about your property. We’ll call within 24 hours to confirm a convenient visit and prepare a site-measured, itemised quote.