Pat doesn't pretend to do plumbing or framing or paint. He stops walls and ceilings. That's the whole list.
The bread and butter. Flush corners, level joins, all the joints tape-and-stopped to a paint-ready face. Standard finish across most new builds and renovation jobs in Waikato.
Good for: builders putting up gib that needs to be ready for the painter inside the week.
Tape, base, second coat, sand, finish. A proper gib stop is what holds up under a hard side-light or a low winter sun coming through a north-facing window. Get it wrong and every join shows up the first time a paint roller goes near it.
Good for: new builds where the homeowner is going to see every wall under daylight.
Ceilings are where stopping work either disappears or fails loudly. Long joins, high access, awkward angles. Pat does the rakes and the vaults with the same care as a knee-high skirting line.
Good for: architectural builds with high stud, vaulted rooflines or exposed-rafter detail.
Pat works with builders like Higgs Building Co (Certified Passive House) and GV Homes (2024 Bunnings New Home House of the Year winner). The pitch to a builder is short. Turn up. Do it once. Don't leave a mess. Be available on the day the painter is.
Good for: residential builders running their own crews who need a stopper who slots into the programme.
Plenty of people put up the gib themselves and then realise stopping is the harder part. No judgement. Pat comes in behind, sorts the joins out, sands it back, and leaves you a wall that paints flat.
Good for: weekend renovators, first-home DIY-ers, anyone who needs the finish brought back to standard.
Photos of the room and a rough square-metre figure are usually enough for a ballpark over the phone.