A facade that looks maintained, recoated while the building stays in use.
Offices, showrooms and institutional buildings recoated from parapet to plinth, facade washing, crack sealing, metalwork and signage surrounds included, worked at height and around the hours your building is actually in use.
- Free site inspection
- Written, itemised quote
- 1-year workmanship warranty
- Same-day callback
At a glance
What does commercial exterior painting cover?
Every weather-facing surface of a commercial building: plastered elevations, parapets, chajjas, columns, the plinth band, signage surrounds and exposed metalwork. The coats are the visible part. The real work is washing off chalk and growth, sealing cracks and junctions, priming for the substrate, and doing all of that at height on a building that stays open.
When this is the answer, and when it is not.
Sending you to the wrong service wastes your money and our time. This is how to tell.
This is likely right if
- The facade has chalked or faded unevenly, so the sunny elevations no longer match the shaded ones
- Algae, dust streaks and staining have built up below sills, drip lines and downpipes
- The premises are being rebranded and the elevations have to carry new corporate colours
- A lease renewal, an audit or a customer-facing reopening needs the exterior brought back to one finish
Something else comes first if
- Water is already reaching occupied floors, the ingress route has to be traced and treated before any coating goes on, or you are simply painting over the symptom
- Large areas of plaster sound hollow when tapped, that needs hacking and replastering first, because a coat can't hold a de-bonded surface to the wall
- The elevation is ACP cladding, structural glazing or stone, those are cleaning, sealant and polishing scopes, not painting ones
What the service includes.
Elevation-by-elevation survey
Every face of a building weathers differently, the west face chalks under afternoon sun while the shaded face grows algae. We record condition, existing coating type, shade and access needs for each elevation separately.
Facade washing and growth removal
Algae, dust film and chalked old cement paint taken back to a sound surface. Paint bonds to whatever is under it, and a powdery layer will lift the new coat off with it inside a monsoon.
Crack and junction sealing
Hairline cracks opened and filled, and the moving junctions, slab to masonry, window frame perimeters, chajja edges and parapet copings, sealed so rain is not being fed directly into the plaster.
Metalwork and rust spots
AC brackets, railings, downpipe clamps and exposed fixings cleaned back and treated before coating. Rust bleeds through a finish coat and streaks the wall beneath it, usually on the elevation your customers see first.
Access, barricading and protection
Aluminium scaffold, boom lift or a cradle rigged from the terrace as the height requires, with pedestrian routes barricaded, glazing and louvres masked, and parked vehicles kept out of the drop zone.
Coating system and signage cut-ins
Primer and finish coats to the agreed system, brand bands set out to a snapped line, and edges cut in tight around signage without coating over the mounting studs so the sign can still come off.
Not included, or quoted separately
- Structural crack investigation, and any repair needing a structural engineer's opinion
- Waterproofing where water is already entering occupied floors, surveyed and quoted separately
- Removing, refitting or repairing signage, facade lighting and their fixings, which stays with your signage vendor
- Replacement of glazing sealant, glass, ACP cladding panels, louvres and expansion joint sections
- Clearing or repairing gutters, downpipes and AC condensate lines, even where they're the reason the wall is stained
The sequence.
Walk the building with your facilities team
We measure each elevation, agree the access method, and learn what the building's working day looks like: deliveries, footfall, parking, and where a cradle or lift can safely stand.
Written scope, permits and working hours
Elevation-wise scope and coating specification in the quotation, height-work permits and entry passes arranged with your facility management, and the hours we're allowed on site fixed before we mobilise.
Sample panel on the building itself
A panel coated on your actual wall and approved in daylight, then again after dark under the facade lighting. A shade that reads correctly on a fan deck can read quite differently under warm floodlighting.
Wash, repair and prime
Cleaning, scraping, crack sealing and priming finished across a whole elevation before any finish coat begins, so the new coat is never being asked to hold a loose surface together.
Coat elevation by elevation
Each elevation completed between natural break lines, corners, movement joints, downpipes, so any lap or slight shade variation falls where the eye already expects a break.
Inspect in daylight and at night, then hand over
We review the finished elevations in both conditions, close the snag list, and hand over the shade and specification record for future touch-ups along with a written warranty stating its conditions.
What moves the price on this job.
We do not publish a rate, because it would change once someone measured your property. These are the variables that decide it.
- Measured elevation area including parapets, chajjas, returns and the plinth band, not the building's floor plate
- Height, and the access method it forces: scaffold, boom lift or a suspended cradle rigged from the terrace
- How much of the work has to happen at night, on weekends or outside trading hours
- Condition of what's on the wall now, washing, scraping back chalked cement paint and crack sealing is the largest variable
- The coating system specified, including whether crack-bridging or textured finishes are involved
- Number of colours, brand bands and signage surrounds, which add cut-in and masking rather than area
Commercial Exterior Painting — your questions.
Can you work while the building stays open?
Yes, and most commercial exteriors are done that way. We agree hours with your facility team, early mornings before footfall, nights, or weekends for the elevations over entrances and parking. Work at height has to stop whenever the ground below can't be kept clear, so the sequence is planned around your busiest doors rather than around our convenience.
Will you spray the facade or roll it?
It depends on what sits below the wall. Spraying covers large blank elevations quickly, but exterior overspray drifts much further than people expect and settles on parked cars, glazing and the neighbouring building. Where that risk can't be contained, we roll and brush instead. The method for each elevation is written into the quotation, not decided on the day.
Can you match our brand colours on the elevation?
We tint to your brand references mechanically and, where the quantity allows, in a single batch, because two batches of nominally the same shade can read differently across a large elevation. You approve a sample panel on the building, in daylight and under your own facade lighting. Strong corporate reds and yellows usually need additional coats to cover evenly.
Can we just touch up the stained patches?
You can, but it will show. An exterior coat fades and collects dirt unevenly, so a fresh patch sits brighter than everything around it and draws the eye straight to what you were trying to hide. Where a localised repair is unavoidable, we carry the new coat out to the nearest natural break, a corner, a downpipe or a movement joint.
What happens if it rains during the job?
Exterior coats need a dry, cured surface and a settled spell after application, so rain stops work rather than slowing it, and wind stops work at height as well. We sequence the elevations to keep the most exposed faces for better weather. We would rather lose a session than put a coat onto a damp wall that blisters later.
Related services
- Exterior Wall WaterproofingIf water is getting into the walls, this has to be settled before any coating.
- High-Rise Building PaintingAbove a few floors the access method, not the paint, drives the whole job.
- Commercial Interior PaintingDoing the inside in the same shutdown window saves a second mobilisation.
Let us look at your walls first.
Tell us about the property and we will set up a free colour and wall inspection. You get a written, itemised quotation afterwards, with no obligation to go ahead.
- We call you back the same day to get a picture of the property and the surfaces.
- We agree a time and come out for the free inspection.
- You get the written scope and itemised quotation.
- Nothing starts until you approve it.