Commercial, Landlord & End-of-Tenancy Painting Services

Work that fits around your business, not the other way round

A shop, office or rental block can’t usually shut down for a repaint the way a homeowner can hand over a house key and leave for the week. Commercial decorating means planning around trading hours, tenants, and access — out-of-hours or weekend work where it’s needed, so the job gets done without costing you trade or disrupting the people using the building.

What’s involved

• Plan around the building’s use. Shops and offices scheduled out-of-hours or in phases so areas stay usable; rental blocks coordinated around access and any occupied units.
• Prepare properly, at commercial scale. Same standard as any Daking job — filled, sanded, and masked — just applied across a bigger footprint: communal areas, stairwells, shopfronts, office interiors.
• Durable finishes where it matters. High-traffic commercial areas get paint systems chosen for wear, not just appearance — see also our anti-vandal coating service for communal and public-facing walls that need something tougher than standard emulsion.
• Fixed price, fixed timeframe. Written quotes so there are no surprises mid-contract, and a schedule that’s actually held to.

Landlords and end-of-tenancy repaints

For landlords and letting agents, the job is usually the same brief: get an empty flat or house back to an inventory-ready standard, fast, between one tenant leaving and the next moving in. That means scuffed walls, marked woodwork and any damage from the outgoing tenancy addressed properly rather than skimmed over — a rushed repaint that still shows marks under the next inventory check isn’t worth the saved day. We typically use a contract emulsion — a paint built for durability and quick, even coverage on rental turnarounds rather than a premium decorative finish — unless you’ve specified otherwise. Turnaround is planned around your changeover date, with the same fixed-price, written-quote approach as every other job.

What commercial and landlord repaints typically cost

For a single flat between tenancies, cost tracks fairly closely to a residential interior repaint of the same size — see our cost-to-paint-a-3-bed-house guide for the equivalent residential figures, since the scope (walls, ceilings, woodwork) is usually the same even though the job is a landlord’s, not an owner-occupier’s. A one or two-bed flat repaint between tenancies commonly runs from a few hundred pounds for a touch-up-and-refresh up into the low thousands for a full repaint with damage to make good, depending on condition left by the outgoing tenant.

Shops, offices and larger rental blocks are priced per job once we’ve seen the floor area and access constraints — a single small shopfront interior is a different scale of job to a multi-floor office or a block’s communal areas, so we don’t publish a single range for commercial work. See our price list and day-rate guide for the underlying day-rate context, or get in touch for a written figure based on the actual space.

What’s included in a typical quote: filling, sanding and masking to the same standard as any Daking job, the paint itself, making good marks and damage from the outgoing tenancy on EOT jobs, and scheduling around trading hours or occupied units on commercial jobs.

What can cost extra: damage beyond normal wear and tear left by an outgoing tenant (holes, heavy marking, damaged woodwork), out-of-hours or weekend working where a shop or office can’t lose trading time, and durable, high-traffic paint systems for commercial areas — see our anti-vandal coating service if that’s the level of durability you need.

How fast can an end-of-tenancy repaint turn around?

Void periods cost landlords money every day a property sits empty, so turnaround matters as much as the finish. A single flat between tenants can often be repainted within a few days once we’re on site, depending on how much needs doing — we’ll give a realistic timeframe against your actual changeover date when we quote, and hold to it, rather than giving an optimistic number and slipping.

Managing multiple properties or an ongoing portfolio

Landlords and letting agents managing more than one property don’t need to start from scratch with a new quote every time a tenancy ends. Once we know a property or a portfolio, repeat turnarounds go faster — we already know the layout, the usual scope, and what to expect, so the next changeover doesn’t need the same lead time as the first.

Why Daking

Whether it’s a single flat between tenancies or an ongoing arrangement for a managed block, commercial and landlord clients get the same prep-first standard as any Daking job, a written quote before work starts, and the workmanship guarantee once it’s finished.