Patient areas
Patient areas, repainted around the people in them
Corridors, rooms and waiting areas are some of the most-handled walls in a building. We paint them when the fewest people are there.
We work one area at a time, with your staff clearing it first and your contact walking it with us at handback. Wall guards, handrails, signs and door hardware are masked or taken off and put back, never painted over.
Corridors, nurse stations and waiting areas
Patient and resident rooms, once your staff have cleared them
Exam and procedure rooms that aren't sterile spaces
Doors, frames and trim, with hardware masked
What we repaint
Six kinds of patient area
Each has its own surface, its own traffic and its own finish.
Corridors
High-traffic walls, handrail zones and ceilings, a stretch at a time.
Patient and resident rooms
Walls, doors, frames and closets, one room per shift.
Exam and procedure rooms
Non-sterile spaces, with the finish your team approves for wipe-down.
Waiting rooms and desks
Evenings and weekends, with furniture moved and covered by your staff.
Stairwells
Walls, rails and landings, with egress kept open to the code the building follows.
Doors, frames and trim
Prepped, primed and finished off the hinge where the plan allows, in place where it doesn't.
Finishes
Finishes by surface
Brand-neutral words. The bid names the product from your approved list and gives its data sheet.
- Eggshell or satin
Corridor and room walls
A durable, wipeable finish that tolerates repeated cleaning with your approved cleaner.
- Semi-gloss
Doors, frames and trim
A harder, more washable finish for the surfaces that get the most contact.
- Flat
Ceilings
A flat finish that hides patches and doesn't glare under corridor lights.
- High-performance
Lower walls and cart zones
A tougher coating where carts and beds hit, as your facility specifies.
How long it takes
Nights, not weeks
Typical ranges for a crew of five or six. The walk-through and the bid state yours.
- 1 night
A patient room
Prepped, painted and handed back in one night.
- 3 to 5 nights
A twelve-room corridor
Two crews, working room by room along one wing.
- 1 to 2 nights
A waiting area
Walls, trim and doors, with the desk area masked.
- 2 to 3 nights
A stairwell
Walls, rails and landings, one flight at a time.
Dry time, cure time and repairs found behind old finishes can add nights. The bid says so before work starts.
Patient-area questions
Do you work in occupied buildings?
Yes. Most of our work happens on nights and weekends in buildings that stay open. Your staff clear the area before we start, and we never paint a room while a patient or resident is in it. The plan names the area, the hours and who we call if something changes.
What kind of barrier do you build?
The one your permit calls for. Often that is a sealed plastic wall with a zippered door and a sticky mat inside it. Where the plan asks for a hard barrier or a negative-air machine, we build to that and say so on the bid.
Can you paint operating rooms or sterile processing?
Those spaces have their own rules from your infection-prevention team. We look at them at the walk-through and tell you plainly whether we can take them on.
What if an area can't be handed back on time?
The plan says who we call, at what hour, and what happens next: a longer barrier, a closed room for one more shift or a patch of floor kept clear. We tell you as soon as we know, and we don't leave a barrier up without your sign-off.
Walk the area with us
Tell us the building and the wing. The office books a daytime walk-through and sends a written bid after.