Offices, retail units, schools, churches, medical and dental suites, common areas and stairwells. We are a small locally owned company rather than a franchise, so the person who prices your job is the person who runs it and the person you call if something needs adjusting.
Working around an operating business
The paint is rarely the hard part of a commercial interior. Getting it done without stopping your business is. We build the sequence around your hours before we start — evenings and weekends where that is what it takes, a floor or a wing at a time, occupied suites ordered so that nobody is sealed in behind wet work — and we put that schedule in the agreement rather than improvising on site.
For schools, that usually means summer, spring break or a long weekend, with a hard finish date. For retail, it means overnight. For a medical suite, it means the rooms that have to be usable at eight the next morning are the ones we finish first.
Odour and air quality
In an occupied building the practical question is not how good the wall looks on Monday but whether the room is usable on Tuesday. We use low-odour, low-VOC coatings as standard on occupied interiors, ventilate properly, and schedule the higher-odour work — oil-based primers, floor and metal coatings — for when the building is empty.
Surfaces
Drywall and block, ceilings and grid, doors and frames, trim, handrails, corridors and stairwells. High-traffic areas get a coating chosen for scrubbability rather than for the price per gallon — in a school corridor or a clinic hallway, a finish that cannot be washed is a finish that will need redoing in two years.
Where a substrate needs a specific system we will say so at estimate stage: block needs a block filler before anything else, and painting it without one uses far more topcoat and still looks porous.
The estimate is part of the service
Commercial jobs are awarded on the quality of the estimate about as often as on the number at the bottom of it. Ours sets out surfaces, preparation, products, sequence and schedule in a formal written agreement, so that what you approved is what gets built and nobody is arguing in week three about whether "common areas" included the stairwell.
Tiffany Benamati awarded us a school library update on exactly that basis — the thoroughness of the estimate and the detailed service contract provided up front — with a tight timeline and a fixed window of opportunity. That is the kind of job this process exists for.
