Steelline Access The painter who shows you the prep.
Steelline has painted homes across the Greater Sydney NSW since 2009. In that time we’ve learned the thing homeowners actually want isn’t a lower number, it’s a quote they can trust. So we built the business around making ours legible.
Most painting goes wrong before the brush ever touches the wall. A quote with no primer line. A “no prep needed” promise. Two coats that turn out to be one. By the time the homeowner can see the problem, the colour ghosting through, the topcoat lifting at the edges, the painter is long gone and the tin is empty.
Steelline started in 2009 with a simple idea: write the quote so the prep is impossible to hide. Wash, sand and fill, masking, primer, number of coats, the paint brand and product, the cut-in, seven lines, each with a price. Put next to a cheaper quote, ours doesn’t look dearer. It looks complete. That’s usually the whole conversation.
A homeowner can’t inspect the prep on handover day. So we make it something you can read on the quote instead, before you sign, not after it fails.
Today we cover interior, exterior, roof, commercial and strata, and the specialist work, lead-safe prep on pre-1970 homes, heritage colour matching, render and steel systems, across the Greater Sydney NSW, with no travel surcharge within 35km of Marrickville.
Three things we won’t compromise on.
We quote the prep, not just the colour
Sixty to eighty percent of a paint job is the work you never see, the wash, the sanding, the filling, the primer. So we put it on the page, line by line, with a dollar figure beside each. It’s the part the cheap quote leaves off, and the part that decides whether your paint lasts two years or ten.
The right scope, not the biggest one
Sometimes the honest answer is a patch and a touch-up, not a full repaint. We’ll tell you which one you actually need, even when it’s the smaller job, because a homeowner who trusts the first quote is the one who calls back in five years.
Everything in writing
Itemised quote on letterhead, licence number, paint brand and product named, variation rules spelled out, warranty stated with its exclusions. No cash-only handshake, no “$4,500 the house” by text.
Who we’re the right painter for, and who we’re not.
We’d rather lose a job to a fairer fit than win one we’ll both regret. Dan’s honest about who Brushline suits.
If you want the cheapest number on the street, we’re probably not your painter. If you want a quote you can read, a crew that prices the prep, and a finish that holds up, that’s the whole business.
Licensed, insured, accredited, and happy to prove it.
Licence
SafeWork NSW SB-00000
Shown for any job size, on request.
Insurance
Public liability to $20M
Certificate available before we start.
Warranty
engineer-certified handover
In writing, with exclusions named.
Accreditation
SafeWork NSW Licensed
High-risk scaffolding work
Accreditation
Scaffolding Association of NSW
Member since 2011
Brushline Painting Co. is a composite reference site, the licence number, ABN and contact details above are illustrative placeholders, not a real operator. On a live build these are the real, verifiable credentials of the painting business.
A small crew, not a call centre.
Marcus Hale
Founder & supervising scaffolder
Twenty years on the tools, the last ten watching jobs go up untagged and uninspected to win the price, then fail an audit on someone else’s site. Started Steelline in 2009 to do it the other way. Designed, certified, tagged, every lift.
“I’d rather lose a job to a fair quote than win it by skipping the design certificate. The builders I keep are the ones who never have to scramble for paperwork when the regulator walks on.”
Priya Nand
Project coordinator
Books the site surveys, holds the design certificates and SWMS, and runs the inspection register. The reason your paperwork is never a scramble and your call comes back within a business day.
Daniel Roe
Advanced rigger & scaffolder
Advanced scaffolding and rigging ticket. Multi-storey perimeter, loading bays, temporary roofs and the engineered jobs where the load and the wind have to add up before anyone climbs.
What happens from first call to handover.
Site survey + access plan
We measure, photograph, note the loads, the ground and where the job meets the street.
Engineered design + certificate
Designed to AS/NZS 1576 and certified by an engineer for anything over four metres.
SWMS + firm install date
The safe-work method statement and a date you can build your trades around.
Install + tagged handover
Built to spec, handed over on a green Scaftag, and walked through with you.
Weekly inspections
Documented every seven days and after any alteration, impact or weather event.
Dismantle + site clear
Struck on the agreed date, gear off your site, ground swept behind us.
Want a quote you can actually read? Let’s start there.
Tell us about the job. We’ll survey the site, design the access and send a quote with the hire, the certificate and the inspections all on the page.