"It was twenty years ago today"

Or it was nearly twenty years, 19yrs. in fact October 2007. Who remembers the floods in Calpe ?

Speaking to a client the other day he expressed surprise when I informed him that I had been in business here on the Costa Blanca for 20 years and showed him this photo of the van (when I still traded as Casa Blanca Pinturas) in Calpe the day of the big floods as proof.

Most of the vehicles in this photo were swept out to sea (including the nice silver Merc and the red beer delivery truck you can see behind the van. I was saved because the green bottle bank immedietly behind the van was full and blocked the worst of the waters from afecting the van and also the van was loaded with paint for an interior we were painting up in Valencia plus of course the ladders on the roof all of which stopped the water from lifting the van up from the rear and submerging the front with the engine and electrics as happened to almost all the other cars affected.                                                                             

I waited till the waters had subsided after the ayuntamiento broke the wall at the shore front and got in the van turned the key and to my astonishment (and the surprise of all the onlookers) the motor started and I drove round the corner to safety.                                                                                                                            

Happy days!

Ballustradas

Ballustradas can be a real time consuming pain to paint however thanks to 20plus years experience in the correct preparacion and painting with airless spray equipment The Villa Painters have perfected the painting of same to achieve the almost new appearance as the example in the photo below in a fraction of the time that painting by hand would take.

 

TESTIMONIAL

We had our house exterior painted by Stewart in February 2025

From start to finish his professionalism and high standards were without fault:

Clear explanation of the process, time scale respected, punctuality , attention to details cleanness, quality of paint used.

We highly recommend Stewart and his team !

John and Brigitte McLay                                                                                          

Calle Joaquin Rodrigo, 43                                                                                         

La Cala, Javea

 TESTIMONIAL

Stewart painted our house in October 2009 (when he still traded as Casa Blanca Pinturas) and during the following 11 years he visited every year to ensure that the paintwork was still in good condition or to undertake some new work requested by us.

Finally in 2023 we contracted him to repaint the entire property and we are just as pleased with the results as we were back in 2009.

We would recommend The Villa Painters in a heartbeat!

Andrew and Julie Sergeant                                                                                          Las Gardenias 22                                                                                                          Monte Pego

Commercial Premises

As we mostly paint the exteriors of houses and the customers will invariably choose white or cream/biege type colours we very rarely get the opportunity to work with bright colours so you can imagine how pleased we were when the good people at Securistore asked us to paint the rear elevation of their premises in Ondara business park and as you can see from the photos and videos included the colours sure weren´t bland!!

This was the first time we had tackled a project like this but by following our normal procedure of preparation and choice of materials we acheived a first class finish.

So much so that every time my partner and I drive past it on the autopista I always shout out "hey look I painted that" which as you can imagine she is begining to find a bit tedious.

Think she might hit me next time😟

A Picture Paints (a thousand words)!

 

I apologise for extremely tenuous link between painting and this picture. 

It´s just such a lovely photo that I thought it deserved to be published on the net somewhere.

This was taken by my partner when we lived in front of the beach and sharp eyed observers will note that the sun is rising to the right of the Peñon which means that the picture was taken on one of the shortest days of the year in December when the sun breaks the horizon at this spot in the morning. 

The rest of the year of course its increasingly rising to the left and setting way over to the right past Altea.

All rights of use and of publication reserved by the author so I don´t want to see it being used in a calendar or other web site. 😉

Height No Problem

Many homeowners on the Costa Blanca who have properties that include extremely high walls round swim pools or general under build areas can be put off commissioning a house paint contract for the fear of the costs of scaffold or cherry pickers needed to access these areas.
Working now with a team of absailers (see photos above) The Villa Painters can now offer extremely competitive prices for this type of work and therefore no one should be nervous about asking for a quotation as we are sure that you will be pleasantly surprised at how affordable a top quality and fully guaranteed house paint can be.