About us
Two decades of painting South Manchester
South Manchester Painting & Decorating is run by Liam Kelly — a time-served painter and decorator based in Chorlton, working across the city's southern suburbs.
The short version
Liam picked up a brush professionally over 20 years ago and never put it down. The business today is built almost entirely on repeat customers and word of mouth across Chorlton, Didsbury, Sale and the rest of South Manchester — the kind of trade you only earn by leaving jobs right.
How we work
It isn't complicated. We quote honestly, turn up when we said we would, and prepare surfaces properly before any paint goes on. We use trade-quality materials as standard and designer paints where the project deserves them. While the work's on, your home gets treated like ours: floors covered, furniture protected, everything cleaned and put back at the end of each day.
The work we love
South Manchester's housing stock is a gift for a decorator — Victorian terraces and villas, Edwardian semis, 1930s garden-suburb houses, modern apartments. High ceilings, original coving, sash windows, panelled doors: detail work that rewards patience and punishes shortcuts. It's the kind of work we built the business on.
Materials we trust
Dulux Trade, Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Edward Bulmer — trade quality as the floor, never the ceiling.
Reviews
Don't take our word for it
“Fantastic service from Liam, really smart, tidy & neat painting job done on our bedroom, swift work too! Highly recommended, great painter/decorator.”
“Hard working, brilliant murals and superb overall finish. Excellent value for money, I can't recommend highly enough.”
“Not your average 'tea breaker', hard and fast work with superb attention to detail. Can't recommend highly enough.”
Like the sound of how we work?
Get a free visit and a written quote within one working day. The diary fills a few weeks ahead — worth getting in early.