A fresh coat of paint every two or three years is essential to keep your business looking clean and professional. While an area is being painted, it’s not usable for business because an accident with wet paint can ruin customers’ belongings, damage your property, and ruin the paint job. To work around these constraints and make sure business will go smoothly while you’re refreshing the space, use these commercial painting tips.

What You & Your Commercial Painting Company Can Do

1. Schedule Services Outside Business Hours

Depending on the scale of the job and your usual business hours, you may be able to have your painting company come in after you close up shop so that the paint will be dry before you open in the morning. This way, your painters and customers won’t get in each other’s way and there’s no risk of a wet paint disaster. You may even be able to get shelving and products back in place before you open so that there’s no interruption in business operations. Even if you do have to devote some business hours to rearranging the space, it will be less disruptive than if you did the whole project while the store is open.

2. Paint One Space at a Time

You might imagine that having all of your painting done at once is the smartest way since it’s seems to be the fastest option, but this isn’t correct. If you’re planning interior painting throughout a store or office, you’ll likely have to close the whole establishment until you’re done. This is because sections will need to be lined with painter's tape, measured, and then given multiple, even coats. However, if you have one section painted at a time, you can often block off the painted part of the building, leaving the rest open for business so that you'll never have to completely close and the whole site gets painted.

3. Make Room for Customers

If there will be wet paint while the store or office is open, arrange a way to get past the affected area. For example, you might have to direct customers to a different aisle or paint only one side of a hallway at a time so that customers can walk on the other side where it’s dry. Leave enough room for two visitors to get past each other without touching the paint—or, in stores, leave room for two shopping carts.

To plan for commercial painting on a schedule that’s convenient for your customers and operation hours, contact Art Evans & Sons Painting Contractors in Oxford, OH. Serving Ohio and Indiana for almost 80 years, they stand by their work and won’t stop until you’re satisfied. To speak with a member of their team, call (513) 523-6425 or reach out online.