Painting & Plastering

A smooth, even surface is essential for a flawless paint job. Our professional plastering services create the perfect foundation, ensuring your walls and ceilings are free from imperfections.

Flawless Finishes for a Lasting Impression

At Shaw Contractors, we specialize in high-quality painting and plastering services, delivering smooth, durable, and aesthetically stunning finishes for both residential and commercial properties. Whether you're refreshing your home, enhancing your office space, or working on a large-scale project, our expert team ensures exceptional craftsmanship with every stroke and layer.

Plastering and painting as one job

Good paintwork starts with the surface underneath. On new blockwork, plaster gives walls and ceilings a true, consistent face. On older Maltese properties, it is often about repairing cracks, hollow patches and damage left by damp before anything else. We treat plastering and painting as one sequence: build the surface, prepare it properly, then finish it. That way the final coat shows the room at its best rather than every flaw beneath it. It also means one team is accountable for the finish, from the first coat of plaster to the last coat of paint.

Where we use it

• Apartments and maisonettes: new finishes throughout, or a full refresh before moving in or letting.
• Villas and penthouses: high-end interiors where walls and ceilings need to be flawless under feature lighting.
• Offices: repainting in corporate colours, refreshing shared areas and finishing new partitions.
• Retail and hospitality: shops, restaurants and hotels that need durable, easy-to-maintain surfaces.

Choosing the right finish

Different rooms need different paints. Kitchens and bathrooms benefit from moisture- and mould-resistant coatings that can be wiped clean, while hallways, stairwells and commercial corridors need washable, hard-wearing finishes. Ceilings usually suit a flat matt finish that hides minor irregularities, and feature walls can take a richer sheen or a decorative treatment. In older stone buildings and coastal properties, where moisture is a constant factor, breathable coatings and the right primer help the finish last. We talk through colours, sheen levels and practical needs with you before work starts, so the result looks right and stands up to daily life.

Our process

1. Assessment: we inspect walls and ceilings, check for damp or cracking and agree the scope and finish with you.
2. Protection: floors, fittings and furniture are covered before work begins.
3. Plastering and repairs: new plaster is applied where needed and existing defects are filled and made good.
4. Preparation: surfaces are sanded, cleaned and primed to suit the substrate.
5. Painting: finish coats are applied evenly, followed by a final inspection and clean-up.

Why choose Shaw Contractors

We work on residential and commercial projects across Malta and can take a property from shell to furnished, so painting and plastering fit naturally alongside our other trades. New gypsum soffits and partitions can be jointed and painted by the same team, and where damp is the root of the problem, our liquid membrane and insulation work can stop water getting in before the walls are refinished.

Our clients have pointed to our attention to detail, our reliability in meeting deadlines and the way we keep worksites clean and tidy. Those are the qualities that matter most when the work is on show in every room.

Ready to refresh your walls and ceilings? Get in touch to arrange a visit.