Offices and retail After-hours schedules Free written scope

Commercial painters in Toronto who work around your hours

Paint Toronto paints offices, retail units, lobbies, corridors and multi-tenant common areas. The constraint on commercial work is almost never the paint. It is the hours you can give us and the parts of the space that have to stay open while we are in it.

Evening, overnight and weekend phasing so trading continues

Low-odour products for occupied offices and tenanted floors

Phased scope so no tenant loses access without notice

Get a commercial scope

Tell us the square footage, the use, and the hours available.

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How commercial differs from residential

The schedule is the scope

A job that can only run 7pm to 5am takes more calendar days than the same square footage in a vacant unit, and the quote says so.

Occupied space rules

Low-odour products, tools off the floor before opening, and a clear boundary between the work zone and the public area.

Phased by area

Floors, corridors and units are painted in sequence so no tenant loses access to their space without a date they agreed to.

Our Process

How a commercial job runs

Site walk and phasing plan

Measure the areas, identify what stays open, and agree the phases and the working hours before pricing.

Scope and documentation

Written scope by area, insurance documentation to building management, and site access arranged with security.

Protect and prep by phase

Work zone hoarded or taped off, floors and fixtures protected, then filling, sanding and priming inside each phase.

Coat, reinstate, sign off

Coats applied, the area reinstated before opening, and each phase signed off before the next one starts.

Office painting

Office and suite turnover work for commercial painters

Office painting in Toronto is mostly turnover work: a tenant leaves, the landlord needs the suite back to a neutral base before the next showing, and the window between the two is short. That work runs fastest when the suite is genuinely empty, because an empty floor can be sprayed rather than rolled and a spray finish on a long corridor wall has no lap marks in it. Where the floor is still occupied we phase by suite and work outside your hours, which costs more in calendar time than in labour and is quoted that way.

What a commercial scope from us includes

Area-by-area pricing

Each floor, corridor or unit priced separately so you can stage the work across budget periods.

Named working hours

The quote states the hours the crew will be on site, so the number can be compared against a daytime quote honestly.

Products specified

Scrub-rated corridor and lobby coatings named in the quote rather than left as builder grade.

Reinstatement per phase

Every phase handed back clean and usable before the next one opens, not at the end of the project.

Commercial Painters specifics

Why commercial quotes vary so much

Two quotes for the same 6,000 square feet of office can differ by half, and the difference is almost always hours rather than paint. A crew that can work daytime in a vacant suite covers ground quickly. A crew restricted to 7pm until 5am, setting up and striking every night so the floor is usable at 8am, covers less ground per shift and needs more shifts.

When you compare commercial quotes, check what hours each one assumed. A daytime price on a floor that will actually be occupied is not a cheaper quote, it is a different job that will be re-priced once the restriction becomes clear.

Finishes that survive commercial traffic

Corridors, lobbies and stairwells take abuse that residential walls never see: carts, shoulders, luggage, cleaning equipment. A builder-grade flat in a corridor will be marked within weeks and cannot be cleaned without burnishing.

Scrub-rated eggshell or a commercial-grade matte with a washable binder is the right specification for those surfaces, and it is worth naming in the scope. On stairwell handrails, door frames and anything that takes contact, a waterborne enamel gives a harder film that takes cleaning without softening. These products cost more per litre and less per year.

Where office painting fits a commercial scope

Office painting is a subset of commercial work rather than a separate trade. The surfaces are the same, the products are the same, and the thing that changes the price is the same: whether the floor is occupied, and what hours you can give a crew. Suite turnovers, boardroom refreshes, corridor and reception work are all quoted the same way.

Commercial painting questions

Can you work overnight or on weekends?

Yes, and for occupied retail and office space it is usually the only workable option. Out-of-hours work is quoted at its own rate and the hours are named in the scope, so an evening price and a daytime price are never presented as the same thing.

Do you paint office suites between tenants?

Turnover work is a large part of what we do. An empty suite can be sprayed, which is faster and gives a flatter finish on long corridor runs than rolling does. Give us the suite vacant and the schedule tightens considerably.

What about odour in an occupied building?

We use low-odour, low-VOC products as standard, which meet the federal limits on architectural coatings. Combined with out-of-hours application and ventilation overnight, occupied floors are normally usable at opening.

How is commercial work priced?

By area and by access rather than by a flat square-foot rate. A vacant unit at daytime rates and an occupied corridor at 10pm are different jobs. We price each area separately so the work can be staged across budget periods if needed.

Do you handle multi-tenant common areas?

Yes. Lobbies, corridors, stairwells and amenity rooms are phased so no tenant loses access without an agreed date, and each phase is reinstated before opening rather than left under dust sheets.