The Painting & Decorating Show

Joel Bardall is joined by Callum Bonner, who won an award at the 2019 World Skills event in Kazan. Callum talks about his experiences setting up his business Pristine Decor at the age of 23, What it was like setting up a business during the pandemic, his experiences as an apprentice and studying the trade at college

Dan Rolfe talks about how the boom in business throughout 2021 has left him exhausted and frustrated with the day to day of being a decorator. Dan talks about plans he has to remedy this and then later Joel & Dan talk through previous jobs, tools and paints

Adrian joins Joel to talk about his experiences working on heritage projects, Whether he prefers heritage vs. domestic and commercial and the differences with each of them. Also favourite paint systems, tools and more

Jonathan Graham returns to discuss VOCs in paint, teaching the trade and working on exteriors

JG Decorator joins Joel Bardall to discuss his stance on the masking tape debate as well as the responsibility decorators have to environmentally conscious

Joel talks through the positives and negatives of ceiling paints currently on the market, The time his work van licence plate was cloned, Pressures of social media as a decorator and an embarrassing moment with a client

Joel Bardall rounds off his discussion with Joanna from Decor By Jo. Joel & Jo discuss tools, paints, funny stories & Joel has the results from a recent social media poll on exteriors

Joel Bardall is joined by Joanna from Decor By Jo. Jo discusses how she got into the trade, set up her own business, memorable jobs and Joel on how to avoid burnout from work as a decorator

Ian Howie returns to round off his chat with Joel. Ian talks about how innovations in technology have helped him complete his work on heritage buildings and castles around Scotland & England, How the skills needed as a traditional decorator differs from domestic/commercial and more

Joel Bardall is joined by Ian Howie to discuss the restoration and traditional painting & decorating he carries out across Scotland. How he got into the family business, tools, paints and memorable jobs completed over the years

Liam Cleary returns to the show to discuss his experience using online directories, Domestic vs. commercial work, Why decorators don't like hanging wallpaper, Tools, Tricks of the trade and more

Joel is joined by Liam Cleary from Derby to discuss the covid construction boom and why he thinks good tradespeople will always be in demand, The projects he's most proud of completing throughout his career and some nightmare moments, Oil based vs. water based

Joel Bardall is joined by himself this week to talk self priming paints and whether they're all they are cracked up to be. Also how he's using YouTube to promote his business and improve traffic to his website. Joel also covers how he handled a callback to a job completed 15 months ago and remembers some funny on-site pranks from his earlier days in the trade

Nick returns to round off his chat with Joel and discusses social media, favourite paints, tools and also talks spraying and gives a good tip when using water based paints. Joel also talks about the recent weather and some of the skills he would look for in an apprentice

Joel is joined by Nick Sammut after their appearance together on the Festool live event in June. Nick talks about the difficulties he's had finding good apprentices, his experiences learning his trade and some of his favourite jobs and nightmare moments

Liam Gent returns to talk social media, working on exteriors, favourite paints, tools and some early advice he was given in his career that's stuck with him

Liam Gent joins Joel for the first of two chats on the show. Liam shares some hilarious stories of strange and challenging clients, his backstory of how he got into decorating and Joel reflects on joining Clive Holland as a guest on this show one year ago

Joel Bardall talks about the recent Festool live event, Titanium dioxide and using the natural world to create sustainable innovations in the paint industry

Kevin Tingley returns to the show to talk about memorable jobs, challenging jobs and some advice for decorators that might want to give TikTok a go

The Paint Warrior joins Joel Bardall to discuss his journey to half a million followers on TikTok, becoming the boss and his favourite tools, paints and more.

Joel Bardall talks through ways of promoting your business to potential clients that aren't looking online, Hilarious decorating mishaps on & off-site and there's news on an event with Festool and some tool talk in general.

Jon Mears returns to round off his conversation with Joel. They discuss using social media and video to help grow awareness of your business online, more about Jon’s books and podcast, a lowdown on industry related news like paint shortages and a bit about Jon’s plans ahead.

Jon Mears returns to the show to discuss his new book, new podcast and petition to tackle van tool theft.

Michael from iDecorate returns to discuss favourite tools, paints as well as advice on pricing, spraying and social media.

Joel Bardall is joined by Micheal from iDecorate for the first in a two part conversation on the show. In this episode, Micheal discusses is path to becoming a sole trader, aspects of decorating he specialises in and recent experience working on exteriors and filming some of his work.