Commercial Painting
Commercial work is judged on disruption as much as on finish. We price the after-hours and staged work honestly rather than quoting a day rate and discovering the problem on site.
painting a business that can't close
Almost every commercial job we quote has the same constraint: the business needs to keep trading. That decides everything — when we work, how we stage it, which products we can use and what it costs. A retail fit-out repainted overnight in a fast-cure low-odour system is a different job from the same area painted on a Tuesday morning, and it should be a different quote.
We ask what your trading hours are before we ask what colour you want. Then we build the programme around them and show you what each option costs, so the decision about after-hours work is yours with the numbers in front of you.
compliance on a commercial site
Offices, warehouses, schools, medical rooms and hospitality all carry their own requirements, and the ones that bite are rarely about paint. Site inductions, working at height, isolation of fire and smoke systems, low-VOC requirements in occupied spaces, and line marking that has to meet the standard rather than merely look like it does.
We induct our people to your site rather than expecting an exemption, and where the work needs a licensed trade that isn’t us — electrical isolation, scaffold certification — we say so rather than improvising.
finishes that survive commercial traffic
A corridor in an office tower takes more abuse in a month than a hallway at home takes in a decade. Trolleys, shoulders, cleaning chemicals and a cleaner’s mop all attack the same 1.2 metres of wall. Washable low-sheen and a properly specified enamel on the impact zones cost a little more and last several times longer.
We specify by traffic, not by room name, and we tell you where spending more is genuinely worth it and where it isn’t.
what decides the price and the timing
Best suited to shops, offices, showrooms, clinics and building common areas that need to keep trading.
the price depends on
- When the work has to happen: after hours, weekends or in staged sections
- Area and ceiling heights
- Site requirements such as inductions, insurance certificates and building-management rules
- Finishes that stand up to commercial traffic and cleaning
- Protection of stock, fit-out and equipment
the timing depends on
- Your trading hours and how the site is staged
- Building-management approvals and loading-dock bookings
- Drying and curing before each area reopens
- Access to each area on the planned days
That is why every quote is written and itemised after a site walk, never a number over the phone. Ask for a quote or call 0423 533 883.
how the job runs
- 01Site walk and trading assessmentWe look at the space during your trading hours so we see it the way your staff and customers do.
- 02Staged programme and quoteAreas, sequence, hours of work and the cost difference between in-hours and after-hours, written out.
- 03Compliance packLicence and public liability certificate supplied, and site inductions completed, before day one.
- 04Protection and isolationFloors, fixtures, stock and equipment masked and covered. Fire and smoke devices isolated with your facilities team, never by us alone.
- 05PreparationWash down, fill, sand and spot-prime. Impact zones and previously failed areas treated properly rather than recoated.
- 06ApplicationLow-odour, fast-cure systems in occupied areas. Spray where we can isolate, roll where we can’t.
- 07Nightly reinstatementEvery area we work in is trading-ready by open, every day, not just at the end of the job.
- 08Handover and guaranteeWalk-through with your facilities contact, defects closed out, guarantee issued.
what is included, and what isn’t
included as standard
- Site walk during trading hours and a written staged programme
- Licence, public liability certificate and site induction compliance
- Full protection of floors, stock, fixtures and equipment
- After-hours and weekend work where the programme needs it
- Wash down, fill, sand and spot prime
- Low-odour, low-VOC systems in occupied areas
- Washable low-sheen to walls, enamel to impact zones and joinery
- Nightly reinstatement so you trade as normal
- Final clean and waste removal
- Five-year workmanship guarantee in writing
not included
Quoted separately if your job needs it, so nothing arrives as a surprise variation.
- Electrical isolation and reinstatement — your electrician’s job
- Fire system isolation certification
- Floor coatings and line marking unless the scope names them
- Signage, wallpaper and specialist finishes unless quoted
- Asbestos identification or removal
- Making good building defects found behind existing coatings
why you can believe any of this
frequently asked questions
Can you paint outside our trading hours?
Yes. Nights, weekends and shutdown periods are normal for us. We’ll quote in-hours and after-hours side by side so you can see what the convenience costs before you commit to it.
Will the smell affect our staff or customers?
In occupied spaces we use low-VOC, low-odour systems and ventilate as we go. A properly specified water-based enamel has replaced the solvent-based products that used to make this a real problem.
Do you carry insurance for commercial sites?
Yes — $20 million public liability and workers compensation, with the public liability certificate of currency supplied with the quote rather than on request.
Can you meet our site induction requirements?
Yes. Send us the requirements with the enquiry and the paperwork will be done before we mobilise. If your site needs something we don’t hold, we’ll tell you straight away rather than on the morning.
How disruptive is it really?
In a staged programme, most areas are unavailable for one to two days and trading-ready every evening. The honest answer depends on whether we can isolate areas; we’ll tell you at the site walk, not afterwards.
How long before the space can be used again?
Most modern water-based systems are touch dry in under an hour and safely occupied the same evening. Full cure takes longer and we’ll tell you what to avoid in that window.
Do you work for property managers and facilities teams?
Regularly. One contact, written programmes, progress updates you can forward without rewriting them, and invoices that match the quote line for line.
get a quote
tell us about the job.
Two minutes now, a proper answer within one business day — from a person, not a call centre.
- 1we come back to youwithin one business day, with the questions a quote needs
- 2site walkwe measure, check the surfaces and test the existing paint
- 3written, itemised quoteroom by room, product by name — the price on the quote is the price on the invoice
