Best painters in Albany (2026)
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These are the best-rated house painters working Albany, from the CBD and the older streets of Mount Melville, Mount Clarence and Mira Mar out through Spencer Park, Lockyer and Yakamia to the newer estates at McKail, Bayonet Head, Lower King and Gledhow. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. Albany is a Great Southern city, not Perth, so rather than pad the list out to ten with metro firms that drive five hours down for the odd job, we’ve kept it to the painters we could confirm are actually based here and who have a real body of reviews behind them. That makes it an honest three. Below you’ll find what a paint job really costs down here in 2026, why Albany’s cool wet winters, salt-laden Southern Ocean wind and heritage weatherboard make prep matter more than almost anywhere in the state, the red flags worth watching, and a quick checklist before you let anyone near your walls.
Featured painters
These spots are for Albany painters who want to stand out on this page. None are taken yet, so the full review-ranked list is right below. That ranking is earned off Google reviews and never for sale. Are you a local painter around Albany? Featured spots start at $50 a year.
Get a Featured spot ▸How we ranked these
- Google reviews do the ranking. We start with every painter’s live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled fresh from Google Maps.
- Rating first, then weight of reviews. A higher star rating comes first, and where ratings are level the painter with the deeper review base ranks above the one with a handful. All three here hold a perfect 5.0, so the order comes down to how many jobs that score has been tested across. A 5.0 off a job or two isn’t proof yet, so a brand-new painter with a perfect score sits below the established names rather than leaping over them.
- A smaller Great Southern city, kept honest. Albany is not the metro. There simply aren’t ten painters down here with a deep review history, so we haven’t invented them. Three local painters cleared our bar of a genuine rating and a real number of reviews, every one category- and map-pin-verified as based in the Albany area. Lunar Painting Services is a real local painter too but sits on a single review so far, so we’ve named it below the ranking rather than dressed one review up as a proven record.
- House painters only. Albany’s “painter” search is thick with things that aren’t house painters, and we left them all out: the auto spray painters and panel beaters (Albany Panel Beaters, Central Spray Painters, Pearson Spray Painters), the sandblasting and industrial spray outfit (A1 Sandblasting & Spraypainting), the retail paint shop (Inspirations Paint Albany), and a general handyman. What’s left is trade house painters.
- Paid spots are labelled, and never jump the queue. When a business pays for a “Featured” spot it’s marked as such. The review-based order below does not change to favour a payer. Right now, no spots are sold.
All Aspects Painting and Decorating
A perfect 5.0 held across 31 reviews is comfortably the standout record in Albany right now, and keeping a clean score over that many jobs is about the best signal you’ll find in home painting. A painter-and-decorator setup based at Gledhow, so they cover the tidy interior finishing work as well as the exterior repaints that Albany’s wind, salt and wet winters make so important. The safest first call for a repaint anywhere from the older streets around Mount Melville to the newer estates out at McKail and Bayonet Head.
View listing & contact ▸Phoenix Painting & Decorating
A perfect 5.0 across 15 reviews from a firm with a proper base in town at Centennial Park. That’s a strong, steady record for a regional city, and a local operator with a fixed address is the kind of outfit that tends to still be around to honour a warranty. A good pick for both an older-home repaint through central Albany and a fresh render or new-build finish out in the growth suburbs.
View listing & contact ▸Roadrunner Painting & Decorating
A perfect 5.0 across 4 reviews, a genuine local painter working the Albany area as a mobile, service-area operator rather than from a shopfront. Four reviews is a smaller base than the two names above, which is why it sits third, but every one is a clean five, and it’s clearly a real local outfit worth a quote. Ask, as always, to see a recent job or two before you book. As its feedback grows, expect it to climb.
View listing & contact ▸One more worth knowing about. Lunar Painting Services is another genuine local painter around Albany, but at a single review so far it hasn’t built enough of a record for us to rank it among the established names. It’s clearly a real operator and worth a quote alongside the three above, we just won’t pretend one review is a proven history. As its reviews grow, we’ll fold it into the ranking. That is the whole list of confirmed, review-bearing house painters based in the Albany area right now; we would rather show you three real ones than pad the page with metro firms that don’t actually work down here.
What a paint job actually costs in Albany (2026)
Nobody likes ringing a painter blind on price. These are honest WA ballpark ranges for the common jobs, GST included. They’re a guide to keep you from being overcharged, not a quote. Down here the exterior numbers can run a touch higher than Perth, partly because the salt wind, wet winters and hard coastal sun are harder on paint so a proper job needs better prep and coatings, and partly because materials and specialist gear cop the freight down from the city. Painting price swings hugely on prep and coats, so the number that matters is not the day rate, it’s what’s written on the quote.
| Job | Typical WA range | What pushes it up |
|---|---|---|
| Painter day rate (per painter) | $350-$500/day | Specialist finishes, coastal or high-exposure prep, height, older-home hazards |
| Single interior room repaint (walls) | $350-$700 | High or raked ceilings, dark-to-light change, heavy prep |
| Whole 3-4 bed interior (walls, ceilings, doors) | $4,000-$9,000 | Number of coats, feature colours, cornices and trims |
| Ceilings only (per room) | $150-$350 | Water stains, mould treatment, raked ceilings, sealing |
| Doors, skirting & trims (per door + surrounds) | $80-$180 | Gloss enamel over old oil-based paint, sanding back |
| Exterior repaint, single-storey | $4,500-$8,500 | Render vs brick vs weatherboard, salt and wind prep, access |
| Exterior repaint, double-storey | $9,000-$17,000+ | Scaffolding, height, eaves and soffits, exposed elevations |
| Weatherboard or timber home restain / repaint | $6,000-$14,000+ | Stripping old paint, rot repair, priming bare timber, extra coats |
| Render or texture recoat (newer estate home) | $5,000-$11,000 | Hairline-crack repair, membrane vs standard coat, two-storey access |
| Exposed coastal or high-wind exterior (extra prep) | add 10-20% | Salt wash-down, spot-priming, mould treatment, premium exterior system |
Two topcoats over a primer or undercoat is the standard for a finish that lasts; a single “colour over” is cheaper but rarely goes the distance, and in Albany’s wind, salt and damp it goes even less. Albany is really a couple of housing types in one market. There’s the older stock through central Albany, Mount Melville, Mount Clarence, Mira Mar, Spencer Park and Lockyer: a lot of weatherboard, fibro and pre-1970 brick, much of it in one of the oldest towns in the state, which can carry both lead paint and asbestos-cement sheeting, so the prep has to be done carefully rather than dry-sanded. And there are the newer rendered homes out at McKail, Yakamia, Bayonet Head, Lower King, Willyung and Gledhow, where the watch-points are hairline cracks in the render and two-storey access. Over the top of all of it sits Albany’s weather. Unlike the hot dry Mid West, the Great Southern gets cool, genuinely wet winters, so mould and mildew build up on shaded, south-facing walls and paint needs dry conditions to cure, which shortens the painting window through the wetter months. Add the near-constant salt-laden wind off King George Sound and the Southern Ocean, hard on anything exposed at Middleton Beach, Emu Point, Little Grove, Frenchman Bay and Torndirrup, and prep and a quality exterior system are worth paying for down here. Painting is not a licensed trade in WA, so a detailed written quote and current insurance count for a lot (see the checklist below).
Don’t get ripped off: red flags
- No written quote naming the paint and the number of coats. “We’ll give it two coats” said out loud is not a spec. Get the product, sheen and coats in writing, or you have no way to prove what you paid for.
- No prep line on the quote. Washing, sanding, filling, gap-sealing and masking are most of a good paint job. In Albany that also means washing off the salt the wind drives onto exterior walls, treating mould and mildew on shaded walls before a brush goes near them, and using a quality exterior system that can take the coast. If the quote is all “paint” and no “prep”, the finish will flake, chalk and mould over fast down here.
- Mould or damp painted straight over. Albany’s wet, cool winters mean mould and mildew are common on south-facing and shaded walls, ceilings and bathrooms. A painter who rolls fresh paint over live mould is selling you a problem that will bleed back through within a season. It has to be killed and the surface cleaned and dried first. If they shrug that off, walk.
- No care around weatherboard, fibro and old paint on older homes. A lot of the older homes through central Albany, Mount Melville and Spencer Park are timber weatherboard or fibro with pre-1970 painted surfaces, which can mean rotten boards, asbestos-cement sheeting and lead-based paint. Dry-sanding old paint or cutting into fibro spreads dangerous dust through your yard and home. A proper painter checks timber for rot, wet-scrapes, contains and cleans up. If they wave that off, walk.
- No mention of wind, salt and coastal prep on the exterior. A painter who quotes an Emu Point or Middleton Beach exterior the same as an inland job hasn’t thought about where they are. On exposed coastal walls, salt and wind chew through a cheap exterior job in a couple of years. The right answer is washing off salt, spot-priming bare and rusty spots and using a quality exterior system.
- Vague, inflated travel or freight charges. Some cost for reaching a block out towards Denmark, Mount Barker or the Kalgan can be fair, as can a premium on freighted materials from Perth, but it should be a clear line on the quote, not a fuzzy loading that balloons. Ask what the travel or freight component actually is.
- Big cash deposit up front, no ABN, no receipt. A modest deposit for materials is normal. Handing over half the job in cash with no paperwork means no warranty and no comeback.
- No public liability insurance. Overspray and splatter on your roof, paving, windows or a neighbour’s place is your problem if they’re not insured, and Albany’s wind spreads overspray further than most. Ask to see the certificate.
Before you hire: quick checklist
- Written quote. Itemised and in writing, naming the paint brand and product, the sheen, and the number of coats, with prep included. Do this before work starts.
- Insurance. Ask for current public liability cover and sight the certificate. It protects your home, and the neighbours, from overspray, splatter and accidents.
- Prep, spelled out. Confirm exactly what’s included: sugar-soaping or washing, mould treatment, sanding, filling, gap-sealing, undercoat and masking. On the exterior ask how they deal with salt and wind, and on an older home ask how they handle flaking paint, lead paint, weatherboard rot and any fibro. Prep is where a paint job is won or lost.
- Older-home hazards, checked. On a pre-1970 weatherboard, brick or fibro home, confirm they know how to handle lead paint, rotten timber and asbestos-cement sheeting safely before a sander comes out.
- Weather window. Albany’s winters are wet and cool, and paint needs dry conditions to cure. Ask how they plan the exterior work around the weather rather than rushing a coat on before rain.
- Coats. Two topcoats over an undercoat is the standard for a durable finish. One “colour over” is not, no matter how good the paint.
- Recent reviews. Look for recent, specific reviews, ideally with before-and-after photos of local jobs. A steady stream beats one old burst.
Frequently asked
How did you rank these painters?
By their live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled from Google Maps. All three hold a perfect 5.0, so the order comes down to how many jobs that score has been tested across, deeper review base first. We also checked each business is genuinely based in the Albany area and is a trade house painter rather than an auto spray painter, a panel beater, a sandblaster, a paint shop or a handyman. This is a smaller Great Southern city, so three painters cleared the bar; a review-light newcomer is named honestly below the ranking rather than dressed up.
Why only three painters, not ten?
Because we won’t invent operators to hit a round number. Albany is a much smaller market than Perth, and only three painters could be confirmed as locally based with a genuine rating and a real body of reviews. Padding the list with metro firms driving down for a job, or with a painter carrying a single review, would make the list less honest, not more useful. We’ve listed the genuine three and been upfront about who was left out and why.
Which suburbs does this cover?
The City of Albany: the CBD, Mount Melville, Mount Clarence, Mira Mar, Spencer Park, Lockyer, Yakamia, McKail, Orana, Seppings, Emu Point, Middleton Beach, Bayonet Head, Lower King, Kalgan, Gledhow, Centennial Park, Little Grove, Robinson, Frenchman Bay, Torndirrup, Big Grove, Milpara and Willyung. Every painter in the ranking has a confirmed base in the Albany area.
Are these paid placements?
No. This list is ordered on Google review data. Businesses can pay for a “Featured” spot at the top, which is clearly labelled, but paying never changes the review-based order below. As of this update, no spots are sold.
Do painters need a licence in WA?
No. House painting is not a licensed trade in Western Australia, unlike electrical or plumbing work, so there’s no “painter’s licence” to check. That’s exactly why Google reviews, public liability insurance and a detailed written quote matter so much here. For larger building jobs (generally over $20,000 in value) a registered builder can come into play, but a standard domestic repaint doesn’t require a licence.
Does Albany’s wet, windy climate really change the job?
Yes, a lot. Unlike the hot dry north of the state, the Great Southern gets cool, genuinely wet winters, so mould and mildew build up on shaded south-facing walls and paint needs dry conditions to cure, which shortens the painting window. On top of that, the salt-laden wind off King George Sound and the Southern Ocean weathers exterior paint fast on exposed and coastal homes. A good local painter treats mould before painting, washes off salt, spot-primes bare spots, uses a quality exterior system and plans the work around the weather, rather than quoting it like an inland summer job.
How much does it cost to paint a house in Albany?
As a rough 2026 guide: a whole-house interior repaint on a 3-4 bed runs about $4,000 to $9,000, and a single-storey exterior about $4,500 to $8,500. Older weatherboard and fibro homes, exposed coastal exteriors and rendered double-storeys sit higher once you add timber repair, lead-paint or asbestos-fibro care, mould and salt prep, height and any travel or freight. It swings on prep, the number of coats, feature colours and access. Always get it priced in writing before work starts.
How often is this page updated?
Monthly. Ratings and review counts move, new painters earn their spot, and we re-pull the data so the list stays honest and current. As Albany’s newer painters build up reviews, expect this list to grow.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 24 July 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.