Paint touch-ups
Scuffed walls, marked skirting boards and tired patches brought back without repainting the room — matched for colour an…
Read morePlaster repair & wall crack repair, Brisbane
Wall repairs & gyprock patching
Holes, cracks, dents and damaged plasterboard repaired and painted back to match — so the fix disappears into the wall instead of standing out under the light.
Most walls pick up damage long before they need repainting. A shelf comes down and takes a chunk of plasterboard with it, a door handle punches through, settlement opens a hairline crack above a doorway, or a removalist puts a trolley through the hallway. None of it warrants repainting the house — but all of it is visible every day.
This is the work TFS is best known for. Tony repairs the damage and paints it back in, so you are dealing with one tradesperson rather than booking a plasterer and then trying to find a painter to follow them.
What gets repaired
- Nail holes, screw holes and wall plugs left behind by shelving or artwork
- Dents, knocks and door-handle damage
- Hairline and settlement cracks, including above doorways and windows
- Gyprock and plasterboard holes, patched with a keyed-in repair
- Damaged corners and chipped external angles
- Previous repairs that were filled but never finished properly
How the repair is done
Assess the damage
Small holes get filled. Anything larger than a few centimetres needs a patch cut and keyed into the surrounding sheet, or it will telegraph through the topcoat within months.
Fill and build up
Filler is applied in coats rather than one thick pass, so it dries evenly and does not shrink back and leave a dish in the wall.
Sand flat and check the light
The repair is sanded back flush and checked in raking light — the only reliable way to see whether a patch will show once it is painted.
Spot prime, then paint
Bare filler is sealed before painting, otherwise it drinks the topcoat and flashes a different sheen to the wall around it.
Common questions
Common questions
Can you match the existing wall colour?
Usually, yes. If you have the original paint or the colour name, matching is straightforward. Without it, the colour can be matched from a sample — though on a wall that has faded over years, the honest answer is that a patch repaint may be the cleaner result than a spot touch-up.
Do I need the whole wall repainted after a repair?
Not always. A repair in the middle of a flat wall can often be spot-painted and blended. Repairs near a corner, or several repairs across one wall, usually look better taken out to the nearest natural break.
How long does a wall repair take?
Filling and sanding is often an hour or two, but filler and paint both need drying time. Most small repair jobs are a single visit; larger patches sometimes need a return visit to finish properly rather than rushing a coat on top of green filler.
Related guides
Also under Patch & Paint
Other work in this area
Ceiling repairs & repainting
Cracked, stained or damaged ceiling sections repaired and repainted — including the water-stain touch-ups that get left …
Read more