Commercial painting in Rowlett, TX, around your business hours

Commercial painting in Rowlett, TX, with the owner on the job

For most small businesses, commercial painting isn’t a high-rise. It’s an office suite that needs a refresh, a storefront between tenants, a restaurant dining room that has taken years of chair bumps, or a few apartment units that need to turn before the next lease. That’s the work I’m built for. I’m a one-person business: I give the estimate, do the prep, paint, clean up, and answer my own phone.

I’m also honest about size. If you need a whole apartment complex repainted over one weekend, I’m not your guy, and I’ll tell you that on the first call.

Two jobs show the range: a commercial office taken from blue-gray to bright white, with the floors protected by drop cloths, and a single-story commercial exterior repainted light gray with a charcoal band. The office is shown on this page, and the exterior photos are in the gallery.

Office and retail painting around your business hours

On a commercial job the paint is rarely the hard part. The schedule is. I can work evenings and weekends so staff and customers aren’t stepping around ladders, and in bigger spaces I can go one section at a time so the rest of the business keeps running.

Prep decides a lot of how well commercial paint holds up. I cover floors, fixtures and furniture, and patch the dings and anchor holes offices collect (I do drywall repair too). In hallways and break rooms, an eggshell or satin finish wipes clean better than flat; doors and trim usually get semi-gloss; ceilings usually stay flat. Restaurant walls near a kitchen need a real degreasing first, or the new coat won’t bond well.

For property managers and HOAs, the work is usually unit turnovers, common areas and touch-ups. Keep a record of each property’s brand, color and sheen. Even then, a touch-up on paint a few years old can show, so repainting the whole wall is often cleaner. Before changing an exterior color, check the rules: an HOA may need to approve it, and on a storefront your lease may give the landlord a say.

North Texas sun on storefronts and commercial walls

Commercial exteriors here take a lot of sun, and they tend to have long, flat, unbroken walls that show every flaw. July and August highs at DFW Airport average about 96°F (NOAA 1991–2020 normals), and a wall in full sun can run hotter than the air around it.

Sherwin-Williams warns against painting in direct sun, especially in the hot summer months, because fast drying leads to lap marks and poor adhesion. Lap marks are hard to miss across a storefront, so summer exterior painting on a commercial building goes smoothest by following the shade around it, once the morning dew has dried. On a business, that can also mean an early start before customers arrive, or a weekend for the side facing the parking lot.

Inside, after-hours work has its own catch. Many buildings set the thermostat back at night and over the weekend, which is exactly when I’d be painting, and a warm, humid room slows drying. Leave the HVAC running on its daytime setting while the work is going on, and the paint dries the way the label intends.