Three small offices needed painting, in a building that could not close and could not empty its rooms out for us.
- Started on the three offices we were asked for, one at a time.
- Sheeted and worked around desks, cabling and stock that had nowhere to go.
- Filled and made good, cut in by hand rather than taping out.
- Feature wall in blue, durable white matt everywhere else.
- Carried on through the rest of the offices and then the warehouse.
We were asked to paint three small offices. By the time we had finished those, they had us do the rest of the office complex, and then the warehouse as well.
That is the part worth saying out loud: nothing stopped while we were there. The offices were in use, the warehouse was still moving stock, and very little of what was in the way could actually be moved. We took it a room at a time, sheeted what stayed, cut in around it by hand, and handed each area back finished before we opened up the next one. Nobody was sent home and nobody worked in a room with a dust sheet over their desk for a fortnight.
The specification was chosen for the traffic rather than the photograph — a blue feature wall, and a durable white matt through the rest of it that will take being scuffed and wiped down for years without going patchy. A commercial building does not need a delicate finish. It needs one that still looks like this after everybody has spent two winters dragging things past it.
Something like this?
Tell us what state yours is in. A photograph of the worst corner is the quickest way to get a straight answer about what it needs.