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Painters & decoratorsin Poplar & Canary Wharf.
We handle Canary Wharf apartments and Poplar flats and maisonettes with careful prep, stain blocking where needed, and smooth finishes.
Where we work
Neighbourhoods we cover.
- Canary Wharf
- Poplar
- Limehouse
- Aberfeldy
Postcode districts
E14
Based at Royal Docks, E16 — travel, parking, and ULEZ are sorted before we arrive.
5.0★
Google Rating
£700
Starting Price Per Room
£2m
Public Liability Cover
1 Year
Workmanship Guarantee
Local knowledge
Why Prime Coat London
in Poplar & Canary Wharf.
Poplar is an E14 neighbourhood of flats far more than houses, and we decorate the lot — post-war maisonettes on the Lansbury Estate behind Chrisp Street Market, housing-association blocks with shared lifts and corridors, the listed brutalism around Balfron Tower, and the new apartments climbing the Canary Wharf fringe and Aberfeldy New Village. Most jobs here are leasehold or estate work, so we plan around managing-agent rules, lift bookings for materials and tight controlled-barrier parking. With the Limehouse Cut and Basin close by, damp and water-staining are routine, which is why stain blocking and moisture-resistant finishes sit at the heart of what we do in Poplar.
- 01Estate work is routine for us: we manage Lansbury's controlled-barrier access, book the slots to move materials up, and keep your managing agent looped in from quote to sign-off.
- 02Shared lifts, deck-access walkways and stairwells go back to your neighbours and freeholder spotless, fully sheeted the whole time we are on site.
- 03Leak stains and canal-side condensation near the Limehouse Cut are everyday work here — we block the stain at the ceiling and tackle the cause, never just paint over it.
- 04Heritage-aware around the Lansbury, All Saints and Balfron Tower listings.
What we do here
Our services
in Poplar & Canary Wharf.
The same six services we run across London, adapted to how Poplar & Canary Wharf is actually built — its housing stock, access rules, and quirks.
01
Interior Painting for Poplar Flats & Maisonettes
Poplar's flats run from 1950s Lansbury Estate maisonettes with their compact original rooms to glass-fronted apartments off Aberfeldy Street, and the prep differs between them. In the older stock we fill settlement cracks and reinstate worn skirting lines; in the newer blocks we cut in cleanly against crisp plasterboard reveals. We work room by room, sheeting the hallway and keeping a bedroom usable so families and tenants are never fully turned out.
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Exterior & Communal Redecoration
Communal work in Poplar usually means estate stairwells, deck-access balconies and the rendered frontages of the Lansbury and All Saints conservation areas. We agree the scope with freeholders and Section 20 schedules before lifting a brush, then repaint balcony rails, soffits and walkway ceilings in systems built to shrug off the persistent damp rolling off the Limehouse Cut and the Aberfeldy basin.
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Wallpaper Removal & Wall Prep
Two strip jobs dominate Poplar: woodchip and tired lining layered onto post-war plaster in Lansbury maisonettes, and quick feature-wall removals in flats turning over between tenants. For the older walls we steam patiently so the post-war finish doesn't pull away with the paper; for re-lets we strip, fill and seal fast so the room is repainted and back on the market within days.
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Kitchen Cabinet Painting & Spraying
Most Poplar kitchens are compact galley or handleless units in let and leasehold flats where a full rip-out makes no financial sense. A respray restores them between tenancies or before a sale: we lift off the doors and drawer fronts, key and prime them, then lay down a tough sprayed coat in your chosen colour, turning a tired estate kitchen round in a couple of days.
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MDF & Woodwork Spraying
Poplar's newer blocks are full of fitted storage — built-in wardrobes, boxed-in services and run after run of skirting where developers maximise floor space. We spray these in situ to a dead-flat finish, masking off the apartment and running extraction so nothing drifts out into the shared corridor or through a neighbour's open door across the landing.
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Mould Treatment & Stain Blocking
The call we get most in Poplar is a brown water stain creeping across a ceiling after the flat upstairs has leaked. We let it dry fully, prime with a solvent stain blocker that locks the mark away for good, then re-coat the whole ceiling so no patch shows through. Where canal-side condensation has bred black mould on cold reveals, we clear the growth and finish in an anti-mould emulsion.
View the serviceRecent work
Recent projects
nearby.
A few jobs from around Poplar & Canary Wharf — the kind of work we're quoting for in the area right now.
- 01
Maisonette repaint on the Lansbury Estate
Two-bed Lansbury maisonette near Chrisp Street Market redecorated throughout, scheduled around the estate's controlled-barrier parking and a booked slot to carry materials up.
- 02
Ceiling stain blocking beside the Limehouse Cut
Living-room ceiling resealed after an upstairs leak by the canal — the stain blocked permanently, then the ceiling re-coated edge to edge to match.
- 03
Sprayed galley kitchen, Aberfeldy New Village
Handleless galley units in a rented Aberfeldy apartment resprayed over a weekend, ready for new tenants moving in on the Monday.
Pricing
Painting prices
in Poplar & Canary Wharf.
From£700per room
Every project in Poplar & Canary Wharf is quoted as a fixed, itemised price after a no-obligation site survey — so you can compare line by line, and the number doesn't change halfway through.
What every quote includes
- Stain blocking and moisture-resistant paints
- Protection for lifts and shared corridors
- Cabinet and woodwork spraying available
- Straightforward quotes and timelines
Planning a budget?
Start with real numbers.
The £700 starting price is indicative. The pricing guide breaks costs down room by room — or get a ballpark for your project in Poplar & Canary Wharf in about two minutes with the calculator.
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Google Rating
15+
London Postcodes
£2m
Public Liability
Fixed
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Nearby areas
Around the corner,
same standard of finish.
Get in touch
Ready when
you are.
Every quote is fixed-price and no-obligation. Most messages get a reply within the hour — we’ll book the survey at a time that suits you.