Commercial & industrial

Commercial painting contractors.

Essex Painting & Decorating Services Ltd is an accredited commercial and industrial painting contractor based in Chelmsford, working across Essex and Greater London. We decorate live, occupied buildings and new build sites for schools, housing providers, healthcare, offices, retail, industrial units and main contractors — interior and exterior, brush, roller and airless spray applied.

What commercial clients need from a decorating contractor

Commercial decorating is rarely just about paint. It is about working safely alongside pupils, patients, residents, staff and other trades, hitting a programme that other works depend on, and leaving a finish that stands up to heavy traffic. Our teams are directly employed and supervised, inducted and DBS checked, and work to site-specific RAMS from the first day on site.

Occupied buildings kept open

Most commercial decorating happens around people. We phase work by floor, wing or block, protect floors, furniture and IT, and hand each area back clean and usable at the end of the shift. Term-time, out-of-hours and weekend programmes are routine for us.

Brush, roller and airless spray

Empty units, new builds, warehouses and voids are sprayed for speed and finish. Occupied offices, corridors and communal areas are brush and roller applied to keep disruption and masking down. We specify whichever suits the building, not whichever suits us.

Specialist coating systems

Intumescent and fire-resistant coatings, anti-mould systems, stain-block systems, scrubbable healthcare and hygiene finishes, floor and line marking, and protective coatings to metalwork and cladding.

Mould washing and remediation

Mould washing, treatment and repainting for communal areas, voids and tenanted properties, dealing with the affected surfaces properly rather than painting over them.

Interior and exterior

Full interior redecoration alongside exterior repaints, rendered elevations, cladding, timber, metalwork, railings and communal entrances, working from scaffold, MEWP or tower access as the elevation requires.

Cyclical and multi-site programmes

Planned cyclical decoration, void turnarounds, end-of-lease reinstatement and rolling programmes across multiple sites, priced and programmed as one contract with one point of contact.

Accreditation and compliance

Commercial buyers and framework managers need the paperwork to be right before the work starts. Ours is in place and kept current.

  • CHAS Elite and Constructionline Gold accredited
  • Cyber Essentials certified and GDPR compliant
  • All operatives DBS and enhanced DBS checked
  • First aid and role-relevant training in place across the team
  • Site-specific RAMS issued before work starts
  • Fully insured, with supervisors on live projects
View our accreditations

Who we work for

  • Main contractors and developers
  • Schools, colleges and universities
  • Housing associations and local authorities
  • NHS practices, clinics and care providers
  • Facilities managers and managing agents
  • Retail, hospitality and leisure operators

Pricing your programme

Send us the building type, the scope and your target dates and we will survey, measure and issue a written specification with a programme — free and with no obligation.