Jeff Dermott is a family painting and decorating business on Clarence Street South in Addington, Christchurch. It was founded in 1968 by Jeff and Sandra Dermott, and their son Darrell now leads the business. The firm says it has been painting in Christchurch for 50 years. Its work covers interior and exterior house painting, new homes, repainting, and specialist painting and intumescent coatings. It also has its own builders, plasterers and crack injection team, so repair work can be handled in-house.
The firm grew through the city's building boom of the 1970s and 1980s, and it took on large contracts including the Park Royal, Durham Towers and the Christchurch Hospital redevelopment. After the Canterbury earthquakes it became a main contractor for accredited repair work through EQC and EQR. Its later rebuild work includes projects in the CBD shopping precinct, The Crossing, the Oxford Terrace hospitality precinct and the Justice and Emergency Services Precinct on Lichfield Street. The firm has also worked on the Alexandra Park urban village in Epsom, Auckland. Within a kilometre, Final Touch Decorating is the only other painter on Open Locally. For a Christchurch homeowner or business planning a repaint or specialist coating, a firm with 50 years in the city is worth a quote.