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Victorian Cottage Blog Part 3: What type of paint is best for my cottage
By Glenn Blackie
Friday 10th July 2026
Also in category: Retrofit, Mould prevention
In this series of blog posts, Ecological Building Systems' Digital Content Administrator Glenn Blackie talks about his own experiences with renovating his Victorian cottage near Hadrian's Wall. In Part 1, Glenn avoided a costly and unnecessary damp course by finding the real source of his water ingress. In Part 2, he tackled a persistent mould problem through ventilation, cleaning and building fabric improvements. In this third post, he turns to a question that most renovation guides don't ask at all: Does the paint you choose actually matter?
Blog author
Glenn Blackie
Digital Content Administrator
Glenn has worked in website content creation for over ten years. He strives to make the incomprehensible understandable and to breakdown the most technically detailed content into bite sized chunks.
In his free time, Glenn enjoys writing and has several novels published with one currently in progress. Living close to Hadrian's wall there is already a new series brewing in his imagination.