An office repaint is judged on one thing: did anyone have to stop working? A lost day on even a modest floor costs more than the paint contract.
So we work one zone at a time, such as a meeting room, a pod of desks or a corridor. We protect, prepare and paint it, then hand it back before opening the next. Most of it happens after staff go home.
Low-VOC paints have very little odour. A wall painted at 10pm is touch-dry by the time the floor fills up. We stage retail shop repaints and hotel painting the same way.
What our office painters in Perth cover
Office scopes look simple and rarely are. Five elements, each with different wear and different access.
Open-plan walls and partitions
The largest and easiest area, once desks, cabling and screens are protected. Plasterboard is filled, sanded and spot-primed, then finished in a washable low-sheen.
Meeting rooms and boardrooms
Glazing, AV and joinery to work around. Clients see these rooms, so neat cutting-in matters most. Usually one room per night.
Corridors, lift lobbies and common areas
The highest-wear surfaces, often shared with other tenants. Impact-resistant, washable finishes, with exit routes kept open at all times.
Doors, frames and trims
Hand-finished in water-based enamel, done last so nothing knocks it while curing. Fire door rating tags are never painted over.
Ceilings, bulkheads and exposed services
Grid tiles, bulkheads and exposed ducting. Exposed ceilings are sprayed with the floor fully sheeted, so they are usually a weekend job.
Working around your trading hours
Three patterns cover almost every office job. We will tell you at inspection which one your floor suits.
01 Overnight zones
We arrive as staff leave and hand the zone back before the building fills. Best for open-plan areas. Higher hourly rates, but usually cheaper overall.
02 Weekend blocks
Friday evening to Sunday evening gives one continuous window. Best for whole floors, ceilings and spray work.
03 Staged during hours
If hybrid work leaves zones empty, we paint sealed-off areas in normal hours. It is the cheapest option, so ask about it first.
Four details that make or break an office repaint
Cabling and IT. Cabling, floor boxes and comms racks are the most common casualties of a careless repaint. We protect and work around them, and flag anything that must move for your IT team.
Fire doors. Rating tags must stay legible. Painting over them can void certification.
Exit routes. Corridors and lobbies are escape routes. We stage the work so they are never blocked.
Make-good. Leaving a tenancy? Send us the lease clause at inspection. It usually names a colour or base building specification, and it changes the scope.
Multiple sites or a repaint cycle?
Offices on a rolling refresh are better run as a scheduled programme than a series of one-off quotes.
Yes, and for most offices it is the best option. We work overnight or over weekends in staged zones and hand each one back before staff arrive. Low-VOC paints have little odour and are touch-dry in about two hours. For sensitive spaces, such as a medical tenancy, we can specify a near-zero-VOC system.
Usually not far. We move workstations away from walls, cover them, and protect cabling, floor boxes and screens in place. We do not disconnect IT equipment. Anything that needs relocating is flagged for your IT team. Staff should clear personal items before we reach their zone.
Yes. Send us the lease clause at inspection. Make-good clauses usually set a standard, such as a named colour or the base building specification. Scoping against the actual wording, not a guess, means you hand the tenancy back once, not twice.
A single meeting room is usually one night. An open-plan floor of 400 to 800 square metres takes three to six nights, or one to two weekends in continuous blocks. You get a staged programme showing which zones are out of service and when, so you can brief your staff.
Get the office priced around your hours
We walk the floor with whoever controls access and plan the staging. You get a written scope, compliance documentation and one fixed price.