Mount Pleasant VIC 3350 ยท about 3 km from central Ballarat
Painters in Mount Pleasant
Painters Ballarat paints homes across Mount Pleasant, the Cornish miners' suburb about 3 km south of the CBD. The houses are mostly solid, modest Victorian-era cottages on bigger-than-average blocks, with later homes mixed in. We repaint weatherboard exteriors, timber windows and verandahs, and refresh interiors with plaster repair. Request a free quote.
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Mount Pleasant calls itself Ballarat's first suburb. Cornish miners set up a permanent settlement here in December 1854, gold was found on the flat behind the Wesleyan chapel in 1856, and a grid of streets grew up with a few that still follow the original 1850s tracks. The state school on Cobden Street opened in 1874 and is the oldest built in Ballarat.
The houses are mostly single-storey timber cottages built cheaply for miners and tradespeople, many now renovated, on blocks larger than you get closer to the city. The Mount Pleasant/Golden Point heritage precinct (HO173) covers much of the older housing. For painters that means plenty of weatherboard, timber windows and old plaster.
Local knowledge
Painting in Mount Pleasant
The suburb runs from Gladstone Street in the north down to the old goldfields in the south, between the Yarrowee River and Magpie and Britain Streets. Humffray Street South and Morton Street were once busy with shops, and from 1926 to 1972 an electric tram ran to Bartles Corner at Barkly and Cobden Streets. Industrial sites still sit along Humffray Street.
Houses are typically weatherboard or brick with hipped or gabled roofs in iron or terracotta, timber or brick fences, and garages behind the front building line. Chinese market gardens worked the creek flats from the 1870s, and some of that low ground is still open. It is a quiet, mostly owner-occupied suburb with about 2,200 residents.
Mount Pleasant borders Ballarat Central and Golden Point to the north, Redan and Canadian to the east, Mount Clear to the south and Sebastopol to the west across the river. A single bus route (11) runs through to Buninyong.
Typical work
Common jobs around Mount Pleasant
- Exterior repaints of weatherboard miners cottages, including scraping, rot repair and priming
- Timber window sash, sill and door repaints in heritage colours
- Interior repaints with lath-and-plaster crack repair and ceiling work
- Verandah and timber fence repaints
- Roof repaints on corrugated iron cottage roofs
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FAQ
Mount Pleasant painting questions
My Mount Pleasant cottage has never been properly repainted. Where do you start?
With a lead test on the old timber, then a full scrape and wash. Boards and sills that are soft get replaced, checks and nail holes are filled, and all bare timber is primed before two topcoats. Old cottages often need a day or two of carpentry before any colour goes on, and we include that in the quote.
Is a permit needed to repaint in the Mount Pleasant heritage precinct?
Not for repainting already-painted surfaces. HO173 is a residential precinct without external paint controls, so a like-for-like or new-colour repaint of weatherboards and trim needs no permit. Painting unpainted brick or bluestone is different. If your house is individually listed, check with City of Ballarat first.
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