Your office repainted zone by zone, without stopping the work in it.
Occupied offices painted zone by zone, in evenings, nights or over a weekend, with equipment sheeted, life-safety fittings protected and each area cleaned, reinstated and signed off before your teams walk back in.
- Free site inspection
- Written, itemised quote
- 1-year workmanship warranty
- Same-day callback
At a glance
Can an office be painted without shutting it down?
Yes, by phasing it. We split the floor into zones and work each one outside your hours, evenings, nights or a weekend, so it's cleaned, reinstated and usable before staff are back. The painting itself is ordinary work. The planning around access permits, IT equipment, life-safety fittings and hand-back is what makes it office work.
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 floor is occupied and work can't stop, so painting has to run in evenings, nights or across a weekend
- Corridors, reception and meeting rooms are scuffed at chair and shoulder height, with patch repairs drying to different shades
- A lease renewal, audit, client visit or office move has fixed a date to plan backwards from
- Workstations or cabins have been taken out and the partitions are left with anchor holes and cable trunking scars
Something else comes first if
- The floor is still a bare shell being fitted out, ceiling grid, ducting, cabling and partitions go in first, and that's new-construction painting under the fit-out programme
- There's seepage from an external wall, the terrace above or a chilled-water line in the ceiling void, the source has to be traced and stopped, because paint bonds to whatever is under it and a damp layer takes the new coat with it
- You want the mineral-fibre ceiling tiles freshened, paint clogs the perforations that make them absorb sound, adds weight and warps them, so those tiles are replaced rather than coated
What the service includes.
Out-of-hours survey and written scope
We walk the floor with your facilities team when it is quiet, measure the paintable area zone by zone, and set down which surfaces are in scope, gypsum partitions, columns, plastered walls, gypsum ceilings, door frames, and which aren't.
Access, permits and crew documentation
Building work permit, after-hours access, service lift slots, security clearance and a named crew list arranged with building management before the first shift, so nobody is turned away at the gate at 8pm.
Protection of equipment and life-safety fittings
Monitors, racks, cable trays and floor boxes sheeted, dust barriers at the zone boundary, sprinkler heads masked and never painted, smoke detectors capped only for the shift and uncapped before we leave.
Making good the partitions
Anchor and dowel holes filled, cracked joint tape on gypsum partitions cut out and re-taped, exposed screw heads spot-primed so rust doesn't bleed through, adhesive residue from removed trunking taken back, then putty and sanding to level.
Finish coats to the agreed specification
Low-odour water-based emulsion in occupied areas, a washable grade where trolleys, chairs and shoulders touch the wall, edges cut in by hand against glass partitions, skirting and ceiling grid.
Nightly reinstatement and area sign-off
Furniture back in position, detectors uncapped, the zone cleaned and usable before staff arrive, and each zone walked and signed off with your facilities contact before the next one opens.
Not included, or quoted separately
- Isolating and restoring fire alarm, sprinkler or suppression systems, that's the building's own agency, and we work to their permit
- Disconnecting, moving or reconnecting IT equipment, network cabling, floor boxes and UPS or server room hardware
- Dismantling and rebuilding modular workstations, glass partitions and storage units
- Replacing false ceiling tiles, grid sections or damaged gypsum board beyond making good openings we ourselves make
- Flooring repair or carpet cleaning, and signage, glass frosting film and branding graphics
The sequence.
Out-of-hours walkthrough
We survey the floor when it is empty and record surface condition, ceiling heights, access constraints, and which areas and services have to stay live throughout.
Scope, phasing and access agreement
How the floor is split into zones, which shift each zone is worked in, and what building management needs from us, permits, passes, lift slots, all set down in writing before the first night.
Sample panel and colour sign-off
Brand colours mixed and painted as a panel on your own wall, then looked at under the office's own LED panels, which run far cooler than daylight and can pull a warm colour grey.
Shift set-up
Crew signs in, the zone is cleared to the agreed extent, equipment sheeted, sprinkler heads masked, detectors capped where permitted, dust barriers up at the boundary.
Prepare and coat within the window
Making good, sanding, priming and coats sequenced so the zone reaches a clean, dry, usable state by the end of the shift rather than halfway through the next morning.
Reinstate, hand back and snag
Everything put back, detectors uncapped, floors cleaned, and the zone walked with your facilities contact so its snag list is closed before we move on.
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 wall, column and ceiling area, and how many zones the floor has to be broken into
- Whether the work runs in office hours, evenings, nights or across a weekend, shift working changes the labour, not the specification
- How much making good the partitions need: anchor holes, cable scars, failed joint tape, old adhesive
- Whether each zone is cleared for us or workstations and equipment stay in place and are worked around
- Finish grade and coat count, corridors and meeting rooms usually need a more washable emulsion, and a deep brand colour over pale walls needs an extra coat
- Access equipment for double-height reception, atrium walls or ceilings over fixed furniture
Office Painting — your questions.
Can you paint while our teams are working?
Usually not in the same zone. We split the floor into zones and work them outside your hours, so each zone is back in use the next morning. Where a zone can be vacated during the day, a meeting room, an empty wing, we'll work it then, with dust barriers at the boundary and the area cleaned before hand-back. The sequence is agreed at the survey, not improvised on site.
Will the office smell of paint when staff come in?
Water-based emulsion has a mild odour that clears quickly if ventilation or the air handling runs for a purge after the shift, so we ask for that to be arranged. Solvent-based enamel on door frames, shutters and railings is different, that smell lingers well past a night, so we schedule enamel work for a weekend or a planned shutdown rather than a weeknight.
Do you paint over sprinkler heads and smoke detectors?
No. A sprinkler head works off a heat-sensitive element, and paint on it interferes with how that element responds, so heads are masked and the masking comes off before we leave. Smoke detectors are capped only for the working shift, only with your building's fire team's agreement, and uncapped the same night. Isolating and restoring the alarm panel is their job, not ours.
What do you need from your facilities and IT teams?
Access permits and security clearance for a named crew, service lift slots, and confirmation of which zones are released on which nights. From IT, any disconnection or shifting of equipment, and a decision on server and UPS rooms, we sheet them but don't open racks. We also need someone from your side to walk and sign off each zone, so hand-back is not left pending for a week.
Can you match our brand colours?
Yes. Give us the brand reference and we mix it and paint a sample panel on the actual wall, then look at it under your own lighting rather than in a catalogue. Deep brand shades over pale partitions often need an extra coat to sit evenly, so the panel settles both the shade and the coat count, and the coat count then goes into your quotation.
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.