Melbourne Strata & Body Corporate Painting — Tips & Guides
Local advice, how-tos and answers from the Melbourne Strata Painting team.
Painting Townhouse and Villa Unit Complexes: How Small Owners Corporations Get It DoneNot every strata repaint is a tower. Townhouse rows and villa unit complexes have their own issues: lot boundaries on the outside walls, colour consistency, and painting around a dozen households at once. Here is how it works.Read more →What to Check Before Hiring a Strata Painter in MelbourneA strata repaint is a large contract awarded by volunteers. Here is what a committee should verify about a painting contractor before signing, from registration and insurance to safe-work systems and how they handle residents.Read more →What a Strata Painting Warranty Should Actually CoverEvery painter offers a warranty and most committees never read one. Here is what the terms actually mean, and which exclusions decide whether it is worth anything.Read more →Scaffold, Swing Stage or Rope Access for a Strata Repaint?On a mid-rise building, how the painters reach the facade can cost more than the painting. It also decides how long residents live with the works, and how much of the building they lose.Read more →Who Pays? Common Property vs Lot Owner PaintingThe most common dispute in a strata repaint is not the colour or the cost. It is who is responsible for which surface, and the answer is not always where owners assume it is.Read more →Painting Concrete Carpark and Common Area Floors in StrataA carpark floor coating fails faster than any other strata surface when the concrete is not tested first. Here is what to scope before going to tender.Read more →Choosing Exterior Painting Colours for a Strata BuildingRepainting a building the same colour is maintenance; changing it is a decision every owner shares. Here is how strata buildings handle exterior colours, approvals and testing without the process stalling.Read more →What Is Strata Painting? Who Approves It, Who Pays, and What It CoversStrata painting is the repainting of a building's common property on behalf of its owners corporation. Here is what that covers, who approves it, and how it gets paid for.Read more →Render Repairs and Remedial Prep Before a Strata RepaintThe paint is the cheap part. On a Melbourne strata facade, the render repairs underneath determine whether you are back here in five years or fifteen.Read more →Balcony and Balustrade Coatings in Melbourne StrataBalconies weather harder than any other part of a building and fail first. What owners corporations should understand before scoping balcony and balustrade work.Read more →What a Strata Repaint Actually Costs in MelbourneCommittees usually want one number and the honest answer is a range. Here is what drives that range on a Melbourne building, and what a realistic budget looks like by building type before anyone has inspected anything.Read more →How to Compare Three Strata Painting QuotesGetting three quotes is the easy part. Making them comparable is the part nobody explains — and until you have, the cheapest number tells you almost nothing about which contractor is offering the better deal.Read more →Capital Works Fund or Special Levy: Paying for a RepaintThe repaint is approved and now someone has to pay for it. The funding route shapes how much resistance the decision meets, and staging the work can change which route is available at all.Read more →Getting a Repaint Approved at Your AGMMost repaint proposals that fail at an AGM do not fail because owners disagree about the building. They fail because the paperwork did not let owners satisfy themselves the committee had done its work.Read more →How Long a Strata Repaint Takes, and Keeping Residents OnsideResidents will tolerate a great deal of disruption if they know what is coming and when it ends. Most complaints during a repaint are not about the work — they are about not having been told.Read more →