Office refurbishment decorating · occupied workplaces
We decorate occupied offices out of hours and at weekends, phased floor by floor, so the working day carries on. Cat A shells and Cat B fit-outs, the same retail and office fit-out discipline we bring to main-contractor frameworks.
Out-of-hours
Evenings and weekends
Floor-by-floor
Staff keep working
CHAS
Accredited delivery
South of England
Office and fit-out work
Working with
In environments
What you get
Health and safety compliance at the highest level on an occupied floor.
Quick answers
01 / service
02 / why it matters
On an occupied floor the paint is the easy part. The risk is in the access, the disruption to staff and the handover back to a working office.
A decorator who can only work nine to five forces desks to move or teams to relocate. We plan the shift pattern around how the office actually runs, so the work lands when the floor is empty.
Sanding dust and paint smell in a working office is a complaint waiting to happen. Dust curtaining, low-odour products and daily clean-down keep the occupied side of the floor usable.
When the joiners or the carpet fitters run late, the decorator gets the squeeze. We hold the programme and flag any impact to the facilities team in writing before it slips.
Snags spotted by staff returning to work undermine the whole job. Our supervisor inspects and signs off each zone before handover, so the floor is right before anyone sits back down.
03 / process
Walk the floors with the facilities team or the fit-out PC. Agree the phasing, the out-of-hours windows and the access route, and log every elevation with photos.
Confirm the finish schedule: substrate, primer and topcoat per area, sheen level per room, and brand or designer colours matched to spec and confirmed in writing.
RAMS pack with COSHH for every product, dust-control method and out-of-hours working plan, issued no later than five working days before mobilisation for sign-off.
Decorate floor by floor in the agreed windows. Masking and dust curtaining go up before any prep starts, and each floor is cleaned down before staff return.
Walk each floor with the facilities team or PC, photo record per zone, and a no-snag handover policy: every zone inspected and signed off before handover.
04 / sectors
Phased refurbishment across occupied floors, with the disruptive work moved into evenings and weekends so the business keeps running.
Base-build decoration on shells and common parts to a lettable standard, handed over clean and ready to market.
Decoration to a designer's finish schedule for an incoming tenant: meeting rooms, feature walls and reception areas to the agreed colours.
Repaints, strip-out reinstatement and end-of-lease dilapidations decorating, planned around the floors still in use.
Scope · included
Scope · not included
Recent work
Decorating delivered on live retail and office fit-outs under main-contractor frameworks, phased around trading and occupied floors, matched to the finish schedule and handed back clean.
Frequently asked
“RAMS in our hands 48 hours before mobilisation, supervisor on site every morning, and the snag list closed within a working week. That's the loop we expect from a tier-1 and rarely get from a decorator at this scale.”
Request a site survey
Location, the floors involved, whether it is occupied and your preferred working hours. We typically reply within one working day with a survey window.
