Decorating quote for house

It’s that time of year yet again, to find a reputable decorator to give you a price quote or estimate for painting the exterior of your house. It seems like only last year you paid to have it done, in fact, it probably was last year!

Every single year, or 2 years if you are one of the lucky ones, it’s time to find a decorator to give you a price to have the outside of the property painted.

Getting 3 quotes, waiting around for people who then never turn up, calling more people, trawling the internet for advice, checking out the possible scams, doing reference checks on tradesman, its a right load of hassle and in this day and age, wouldn’t it be nice if there was another way?

Another way to avoid yearly house painting, avoid cowboy and cash-in-hand painters, and to finally cure all the wall problems that the decorator just paints over, smiling as he does, because he knows next year he can fleece you of another 2 grand.

If only there was another way!

Well i’m very pleased to tell you THERE IS another way.

There is now a simple wall coating system available from NEVER PAINT AGAIN!

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By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

Blombos Cave is an archaeological site with significant information about the behaviour of our ancestors

The kits used by humans 100,000 years ago to make paint have been found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave in South Africa.

The hoard includes red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste – everything an ancient artist might need in their workshop.

This extraordinary discovery is reported in the journal Science.

It is proof, say researchers, of our early ancestors’ complexity of thought.

“This is significant because it is pushing back the boundaries of our understanding of when Homo sapiens – people like us – first became modern,” said Prof Christopher Henshilwood from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

“These finds indicate that humans were certainly thinking in a modern way, in a way that is cognitively advanced, at least 100,000 years ago,” he told BBC News.

Prof Henshilwood shows what was found and how the tools were used

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Scientists have been scraping down through its sandy sediments to find all manner of artefacts left by the Middle Stone Age people who occupied the limestone cavity.

In 2002, researchers described 70,000-year-old blocks of ochre. This soft stone contains iron oxides that can be used as a pigment, or colouring agent. (more…)

GRC coloured rendering

GRC coloured rendering, a weatherproof, insulated, polymer-modified, coloured through render wall coating system for exterior walls, applied by skilled, factory trained technicians and available from Never Paint Again.

GRC coloured render is a high performance coloured render based exterior wall coating system, manufactured in Belgium by Cantillana, and applied by the plastering division Never Paint Again.

This amazing super strength wall covering will not only not need to be painted again, it will dramatically reduce your heating bills as insulation is built into this amazing system. It is also suitable for all types of houses.

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