Painters in Letterkenny.

There is no crew rotating through and no subcontractor sent out in place of whoever measured the rooms. The person standing in your hall with a tape is the person who will be cutting in the ceiling line three weeks later.

That matters mostly for the things nobody writes down — that the stairwell needs scaffolding rather than a ladder and a hope, that the back bedroom was papered over damp, that you asked for the kitchen to stay in use. None of it gets lost between the quotation and the first morning.

Work here comes almost entirely by word of mouth. In a town this size that is built one house at a time and lost the same way.

Every job is quoted in writing after a site visit: the preparation surface by surface, the products by name, the number of coats, and a fixed price with materials and labour shown separately. Insurance details come with it, without being asked for.

The date in the quotation is the date the work begins. If something moves it — weather on an exterior, a job before yours opening up worse than it looked — you hear it as soon as it is known, not on the morning you have the furniture stacked in the middle of the room.

There is no charge for the visit or the quotation.

Most of the work here is occupied family homes, not empty new builds. Floors, furniture and fittings are covered before a lid comes off anything, and rooms are worked through in an order that keeps as much of the house in use as it can be.

The house is cleaned at the end of each working day rather than at the end of the job — because you have to cook in it and sleep in it in between.

It is your house, not a site.