Started after 8 years painting for other firms and realising most of them skip prep.

Eight years working for larger painting firms in Nottingham. Good firms, mostly. But the pattern was always the same: quote the prep, then cut it when the schedule got tight. Fill half the cracks. Skip the shellac primer on the stained ceiling. Two coats, but not quite two full coats.

The results were fine. Clients were happy because they did not know what they were not getting. But I knew. And it is a difficult thing to keep doing work you know is not right.

Chalk & Line is the answer to that. A decorating firm that does not negotiate on preparation. Not because it is clever marketing, but because it is the only way to do the job properly. The name comes from the chalk line, the most basic tool in a decorator's kit, and the thing most people skip.

We operate across Nottingham and the surrounding area, from Hucknall to Ruddington, from Arnold to Long Eaton. The housing stock here is exceptional: Victorian terraces, Edwardian semis, Georgian townhouses, and good modern new-builds. Each one needs something slightly different. We know what each one needs.