Planned maintenance
Attend to the building before the monsoon does.
Most repainting we are called out for was avoidable a year earlier. A maintenance arrangement replaces reactive repainting with a surveyed schedule, for apartment associations, offices and anyone managing more than one property.
At a glance
What is a painting maintenance contract?
An agreed programme of surveying, planned attention and small works across a property or portfolio, rather than calling a contractor once something has clearly failed. It starts with a condition baseline, produces a dated schedule, and separates planned work from reactive work so the budget is predictable.
What it covers
Six things a contract gives you.
Condition baseline survey
Every elevation, common area and wet area assessed and recorded, so change is measured against something rather than remembered.
A dated schedule
What gets attended to and when, spread through the year rather than concentrated into one disruptive period.
Monsoon-focused checks
Terraces, outlets, parapet junctions and monsoon-facing elevations looked at before the rain rather than after the ceiling stains.
Written scope per visit
What was inspected, what was done, what was found and what needs a decision, so a committee or facilities team has a record.
Touch-up and small works
Marked corridors, scuffed stairwells and localised failures handled while they are still small.
A budget you can plan against
Known planned work, with reactive work scoped separately, so the annual figure is not a surprise.
Who it suits
Where this earns its place, and where it does not.
Worth considering if
- You manage common areas for an apartment association
- You are responsible for several buildings or units
- Reactive repainting keeps arriving as an unbudgeted surprise
- Terraces and monsoon-facing elevations need watching every year
Probably not worth it if
- You own a single flat that was painted recently
- The building has an active damp problem, treat that first
- You are about to sell or hand the property over
Maintenance contracts — your questions.
What is actually in a maintenance contract?
A surveyed condition baseline, a schedule of what gets attended to and when, and an agreed way of handling reactive work between visits. The scope is written per property rather than sold as a tier, because a five-year-old block and a twenty-year-old one need very different attention.
Is a contract cheaper than calling us when something fails?
Not automatically, and we will not claim it is. What it changes is predictability and the failure mode: small problems get caught while they are small, and budgets are known in advance rather than arriving as surprises after a monsoon.
Can a contract cover several buildings?
Yes. Portfolios are surveyed building by building, because condition varies more between buildings than owners expect. The schedule then sequences them so work is spread across the year rather than landing at once.
What happens if something fails between visits?
Reactive work is part of the arrangement and the response route is agreed upfront, who to call and how it is scoped and priced. We do not publish a response time, because committing to one we cannot always meet would be worse than being honest about it.
Do you handle association budgeting cycles?
We can produce the survey and schedule to fit your budgeting calendar, so the committee has costed options before the meeting rather than after. Tell us your cycle at the survey.
Start with a condition survey.
We survey the property, record its condition and show you what a planned schedule would look like. There is no charge for the survey and no obligation to enter an arrangement.
- 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.