Decorating a secondary school or sixth form
A secondary is too big to decorate in one holiday, so the useful conversation is about which blocks get done in which year and how the programme keeps its standard across all of them.
Phasing across academic years
Most estates teams work to a rolling plan: circulation and stair cores in one summer, teaching blocks the next, halls and public-facing spaces before an inspection or open evening. Written specification per block keeps year three matching year one.
Block-by-block programme agreed against the estates plan
Colour and product recorded so later phases match
Priority given to what visitors and inspectors actually see
Stair cores and mass circulation
Fifteen hundred students moving five times a day is heavier traffic than most commercial buildings ever see. Stair strings, corridor dado bands and door reveals need the durable specification; classroom ceilings do not.
Halls, drama and sports spaces
Large volumes need access equipment and a plan for lighting rigs, wall bars and acoustic panels. These are the spaces where spray application usually earns its place, because roller work at height doubles the programme.
3 questions we get about this building type
- Can you hold a colour scheme across a multi-year programme?
- Yes, provided it is recorded properly. We keep a written spec sheet per block so a phase done in a later year still matches.
- Is spraying suitable in a school hall?
- Often, when the space is empty and can be masked properly. It is faster and flatter at height, and the masking is the real work.
- How do you handle inspections?
- Public-facing routes get prioritised. Tell us the date and we will sequence around it.
Next step
Share your estates plan and we will price the next phase and sketch the ones after it.
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