Service · Apartments & blocks
Apartment painting
Flats between tenants, whole apartments before a move, and the common parts nobody wants to organise — stairwells, corridors and lift lobbies. A one-day, one-coat refresh suits sound walls; full repaints and repairs need their own schedule.
- Between tenants in a day
- Keys back the same evening
- Common areas too
A rented flat wears differently from a home
A flat that changes hands every year or two does not fade — it gets marked. Suitcase scuffs along the hallway skirting, chair backs into the dining wall, black smudges around every light switch, the shadow of a picture frame that was there for three years. Almost none of that is a paint failure; it is wear, and it is why the honest answer for most rentals is a clean repaint on a sensible cycle rather than an expensive premium finish that gets marked just the same.
What does pay for itself is choosing the right finish per room. A washable, scuff-resistant paint in the hallway and living room costs a little more per litre and saves an entire repaint cycle. Bedrooms and ceilings can stay in a standard matt. Getting that split right is most of the difference between a landlord repainting every two years and every four.
What we do in apartment blocks
Inside the flat, and everything outside the front door.
Between tenants
Walls, ceilings and the marked areas, in a day for most flats, with the keys back to you or the agent the same evening. Booked around a check-out, not around our week.
Common areas
Stairwells, corridors, lift lobbies and entrance halls. Usually the hardest part of a block to organise and the first thing a viewer sees — worked in sections so the stairs are never fully closed.
Balconies and railings
The outside face of a flat. Soffit, parapet and railing, with rust treated properly rather than painted over, because on a coastal block that is where the next problem starts.
What makes a block different from a house
The building has rules, and other people live in it.
- Access is a scheduling problem
- Service lift slots, loading bays, a building manager who wants an insurance certificate before a dust sheet comes out of the van. We deal with that in advance — materials up in one trip, nothing stored in a shared corridor overnight.
- Neighbours are part of the job
- Stairwell work is done in sections so nobody is cut off from their own front door, and we finish with a passable route rather than a wet corridor and an apology note taped to the lift.
- Speed only counts if it is honest
- A flat can genuinely be refreshed in a day. What cannot happen in a day is a full two-coat repaint of a large flat with significant filling — and we would rather tell you that when you book than hand back a half-dry room to meet a promise.
What an apartment job includes
Priced as one figure, agreed before we start.
- Floors sheeted and any remaining furniture protected
- Filling and sanding the marks a tenancy leaves
- Spot-priming stains, patches and bare plaster
- Washable scuff-resistant finish in hallways and living areas
- Walls and ceilings, one or two coats as quoted
- The paint itself
- Switch plates and sockets cut in by hand
- Clean flat and keys handed back the same evening
What apartment painting costs
A small flat of around 30 m² refreshed in a day starts at €381, rising to roughly €695 at 60 m², with the paint included. A full two-coat repaint costs more than a refresh and the calculator prices both, so you can compare the two for your own flat before deciding.
Every price includes VAT and the paint. Landlords with several units: tell us how many and when — a block of flats booked together is easier for everyone.
Apartment painting questions
- Can it be done between a check-out and a check-in?
- For a refresh coat on a normal one or two-bedroom flat, yes — in by eight, out by evening. If the walls need real filling first, that is a second day and we will say so rather than rush the repair.
- One coat or two for a rental?
- One coat over a similar colour is a genuine refresh and is what most turnarounds need. Two coats are for a colour change, patched walls or a flat that has not been painted in years. The calculator shows both figures.
- Do you paint the common areas of a block?
- Yes — stairwells, corridors and lobbies, usually for a management committee rather than an individual owner. It is worked in sections so no one is cut off from their door, and quoted after a look at the stairwell.
- Who deals with the building manager?
- We do. Tell us who to contact and we arrange the lift slot, the loading window and any certificate they want to see before the day, so nothing stalls in the lobby.
- I own several flats. Is there a better way to do this?
- Book them together. Consecutive days in one building saves a lot of setup and travel time, and that is reflected in the quote — not as a discount code, just as a genuinely smaller job per unit.
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