Corella Painting are commercial painters for Newcastle and Lake Macquarie offices, shops and strata blocks. We paint around the hours you trade, after close and over weekends, and work to a staging plan agreed with you or your strata manager before anyone opens a tin.
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From the surface up, in the order the work happens. Your written quote lists the same layers by name, so you can see nothing has been skipped.
Scuffed corridors, a tired shopfront, stained office ceilings, a strata block whose rendered walls have gone chalky. Every building has its own surfaces, its own access and its own people who need to keep using it.
We walk the site with you or the strata manager, list every surface to be painted, and agree the order the areas are done in, the hours we work, and where we set up, store gear and park.
Each area is cleared or covered, floors and fittings protected, and signs put up where the public walks past. Surfaces are washed, patched, sanded and primed where they need it, same as any house.
Two coats in the agreed product and colour, finished one area at a time so each part of the building goes back into use as soon as it's dry and clean.
We walk the finished job with you, mark anything that needs a touch-up, fix it, and take away every drop sheet, tin and offcut. You get the product and colour codes for each area for later repairs.
Paint in a workplace has to happen without stopping the work. So for most offices and shops we paint outside trading hours: evenings, early mornings and weekends. Each night we finish an area to a point where it can be used the next morning, with furniture back, floors clean and nothing wet left at hand height.
The Cardiff office kitchen in our sample projects is a fair picture of how it goes. A dusty-blue feature wall and fresh white walls were painted over a single weekend, using low-odour paint, so the kitchen was back in use on Monday and nobody lost a day. Bigger fit-outs are staged the same way, a floor or a section at a time.
For shops and cafes, the shopfront is often the job that matters most. Front-of-house work is planned for the quietest hours, and where we're working near customers, the area is roped off and signed. Paint that's dry to touch can still mark, so we tell you when each area is safe to put stock or furniture against.
Painting a strata building is a decision for the owners corporation, not any single owner. NSW Fair Trading says the owners corporation or strata committee must repair and maintain common property. So the work usually starts with the strata manager, who passes our quote and colour options to the committee and back to us once they've decided.
Before we start, residents get a written notice saying which areas are being painted on which days, what will be closed off, and what they'll need to move from balconies or walkways. We repeat it the day before work moves to a new part of the building. Stairwells and entries are done in halves where we can, so nobody is locked out of their front door.
Who looks after what isn't always obvious in strata. Fair Trading's advice is to check your strata plan and by-laws, and the strata manager can tell you which surfaces are common property in your building.
A lot of commercial painting happens between tenants. An outgoing tenant may have to hand a space back in its original colours, or an incoming one wants it in their own before the fit-out starts. Both run to a date set by a lease, so we plan backwards from it and tell you at the walk-through whether the time allowed is enough.
On an empty tenancy we can work normal hours and move quickly, because there's no one to work around. The patching is often heavier: screw holes from signage, shelving and whiteboards, and marks where partitions came out. All of it is filled and primed so it disappears under the new coats.
Commercial jobs come with more paperwork than houses, and we're used to it. We provide public liability details and safe work method statements, complete site inductions, and work to your building's rules on hours, lifts and loading docks. Where walls are high or a block is two or three storeys, the quote names the access we'll use, whether that's scaffolding, an elevated work platform or ladders, and allows for setting it up.
A commercial quote lists each area, its surfaces and how they'll be prepped, the paint by maker, product and colour, the coats, the hours we'll work and the staging order. It names the access equipment and what's excluded. If the job is staged over weeks, the quote shows what's done in each stage so you or the committee can plan around it.
Every commercial job is quoted after a walk-through, because the hours, access and staging change the price as much as the square metres. Work done after hours or over weekends costs more than weekday work, and the quote shows that clearly so you can choose. All prices are + GST.
Usually, yes. We work after close and on weekends, one area at a time, and leave each room clean and set back up before staff arrive. On the Cardiff office kitchen in our sample projects, the walls were painted over a weekend so work never stopped, with low-odour paint so the room was ready on Monday.
The owners corporation, usually through the strata committee and the strata manager. We quote to the scope they give us, and our quote and colour boards go to the committee for its decision. We don't start on common property without written approval from whoever the owners corporation has authorised.
Yes. NSW Fair Trading lists internal painting as the owner's job rather than the owners corporation's, so the inside of your unit is yours to organise. Your building's by-laws may set rules for contractors, like working hours or lift bookings, so it's worth checking those with your strata manager before we book.
Yes. Building managers and head contractors usually ask for public liability cover and safe work method statements before a job starts, and we provide those with the quote. If your site has its own induction, we do it before our first shift there.
Yes. Give us your brand's colour codes or a sample and we have the paint mixed to match, then put up a test patch so you can see it on your actual wall under your own lights. Colour shifts a lot between screen, print and paint, so we always test before painting a whole feature wall.
A few lines and a photo or two is enough. We'll ring to book a look, then leave you a written quote with every surface and every coat on it. No obligation, and no follow-up calls chasing you if you decide to wait a while longer.