Office & Workspace Painting

Office painting in Burnaby runs the full range: a 1,500 sq ft single-tenant unit in a Willingdon business park, a 10-storey Class A tower on Metrotown, or a multi-floor tenant improvement alongside a GC buildout. Burnaby Commercial Painting Co does all of them. The constant is the same: after-hours scheduling, zero-VOC formulations in occupied spaces, and a finished product that doesn't look like an afterthought.

After-Hours and Phased Office Painting

The standard operating assumption for occupied office painting is that we work when you don't. Typically that means 5 PM to midnight or 6 PM to 2 AM, or full weekend access. Zero-VOC waterborne formulations dry and cure quickly and have minimal odour — in most cases, staff can return to the space the following morning without any noticeable paint smell. We ventilate the space during and after application to accelerate cure and clear residual solvent, then do a final walk to confirm the space is clean and ready for occupancy before we leave.

For larger offices being painted in phases, we work floor by floor or wing by wing, completing each zone fully before moving. This typically means the company's staff can rotate through the space in compressed areas while painting progresses through the building. We work with the facilities manager to map out a sequence that minimizes the number of people displaced at any given time.

Feature Walls and Branded Colour Schemes

Office design in Burnaby and Metro Vancouver increasingly uses feature walls as architectural elements: a painted brand colour on a reception wall, a high-contrast accent behind a workstation grid, a dark ceiling treatment that visually lowers a space with too-high ceilings. We execute these as part of the standard painting scope and don't charge a premium for multi-colour work. Colour matching to brand standards — Pantone, NCS, or custom formulation — is straightforward with our spectrophotometer equipment. If your brand guide specifies a colour, we can hit it.

Tenant Improvement Coordination

On TI projects alongside a general contractor, painting is typically the last major trade in the critical path before possession. The GC needs us to start immediately after drywall tape and mud is complete, prime quickly so electrical and mechanical can continue, and return for finish coats once the other trades are out. We're familiar with this workflow and can compress our schedule to meet tight possession dates. We also prime after taping and before mud sanding on our second pass — this is the correct sequence for drywall painting and avoids the flatness and texture variation that results from painting straight over unsanded mud.