Painted around your business, not through it.

Who we work for

From one office to a whole floor.

Commercial work covers a wide range: a single meeting room, a dental clinic, a retail fit-up, a condo corridor or twenty rental units between tenants. We scale the crew and the schedule to the space and the deadline.

For property managers, we can price a standard unit turnover once and repeat it, so each vacancy gets the same scope, colour and price.

Some jobs are a one-time repaint; others are ongoing. For property managers and businesses with several locations, we keep records of colours, products and scope for each space, so the next repaint is quicker to quote and matches what’s already there.

Built for Ottawa

Commercial painting in Ottawa buildings.

Ottawa’s commercial stock ranges from older office buildings and suburban business parks in Kanata and Nepean to newer condo towers across the city. Older buildings often have years of patching and many paint layers that need a bonding primer; newer ones tend to have stricter rules about hours, elevators and colours.

Indoor work goes on all winter, when buildings run warm and dry and paint dries quickly. In humid summer weeks drying slows down. We plan recoat times to the building, not just to the label.

Occupied buildings add their own rules: exits and corridors that must stay clear, fire-door hardware and signage that can’t be painted over, and areas that have to stay open during the work. We plan the phases around all of them.

Condo corporations and building rules

Painting common areas in a condo is usually a board decision under the corporation’s maintenance plan, and work inside a unit is subject to the declaration and the rules on hours and noise. We work from the property manager’s requirements.

Commercial painting doesn’t usually need a building permit, but many buildings require contractor registration, a certificate of insurance naming the building, and proof of WSIB coverage before work begins.

What affects the price

What makes commercial painting cost more or less.

Commercial painting is priced by measured area, then adjusted for access and schedule. Large, open spaces usually cost less per square foot than small, cut-up offices, and after-hours or weekend work costs more than daytime work in a vacant space. Our Ottawa painting cost guide and estimator shows how it adds up.

Ceiling height, the number of colours, door frames and how much damage the walls have taken all move the price. Corridors with years of cart and chair damage need more repair than a quiet private office.

For multi-unit buildings and repeat work, pricing a standard scope once keeps costs predictable. A turnover price per unit, for example, covers the same walls, colours and touch-ups every time, so budgeting is simple.

Need repairs first? See drywall repair. We paint commercial spaces across the region, including offices in Kanata, commercial painting in Ottawa and Orleans.