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Owners corporations and building managers
Lift bookings, dock times, contractor induction and insurance certificates sent before day one, so the job is not turned away at the door.
Painters in
inner Melbourne.
Apartments, terrace rows and converted warehouses on tight streets. Most of the planning here goes into access, before a tin is opened.
Inner Melbourne
Access first,
paint second.
Inner Melbourne packs more kinds of building into a few square kilometres than anywhere else in the city: apartment towers in Southbank and Docklands, Victorian terrace rows in Carlton, Fitzroy and South Melbourne, warehouse conversions in Collingwood, and offices and shopfronts right through the CBD.
What they share is a lack of room. Terraces are often built to the boundary, so an exterior can mean working from a neighbour’s side or putting scaffold over a public footpath, which needs a council permit before anyone arrives. Apartment work runs through an owners corporation and a building manager: lift bookings, loading-dock times, parking for the van, and rules about noise and odour. None of it is difficult, but all of it has to be arranged before a start date means anything.
Inside, the work is often a quick turnaround between tenants or before a sale, or a full repaint of an apartment that has never had more than a builder’s coat. We quote each as what it is, and say up front which logistics are ours to organise and which need the building’s sign-off.
On these houses
What we watch for
in inner Melbourne.
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Footpath and boundary access
Scaffold or hoarding over a footpath needs a council permit, and a terrace built to the boundary may need a neighbour’s agreement. Both are sorted before the start date.
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Warehouse conversions
High ceilings, steel and exposed brick. Scaffold towers or a lift for the height, and sealers for bare masonry that will not darken it or turn it glossy.
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Apartments between tenants or before sale
Fast, clean and low-odour, inside the building’s working hours. Quoted honestly as a turnaround, not dressed up as a restoration.
Suburbs
Where we go
in inner Melbourne.
- Melbourne CBD
- Southbank
- Docklands
- East Melbourne
- Richmond
- Fitzroy
- Collingwood
- Carlton
- South Yarra
- Prahran
- South Melbourne
- Port Melbourne
- St Kilda
Not listed? If it is in greater Melbourne, ask — these are examples, not a boundary.
What we do here
The full service,
across inner Melbourne.
Interior painting
Whole homes, single rooms, new builds and specialist finishes. Minimum three coats, and the preparation that makes three coats worth applying.
Exterior painting
Weatherboard, render, brick, windows, gutters and fascias, specified for a Melbourne year rather than a Melbourne week.
Commercial & strata
Offices, retail, hospitality and common property. Staged around trading hours and left clean at the end of every shift.
Period homes
Victorian, Edwardian and interwar houses. Lead-safe preparation, period-appropriate colour, and detail cut by hand.
Elsewhere
The rest
of Melbourne.
Next step
Tell us about the job.
Send through a few photos and what you have in mind. We will come back within one business day with an honest read on the work, the timing and the range it sits in.