A shared stairwell in a block of flats often has no alternative route, which means the sequencing of the work matters more than almost anything else about the job. Getting the order of landings wrong can leave a resident on an upper floor with nowhere dry to walk for an entire evening.
Yes — we always maintain a dry, safe path on every tread and never fully close a stairwell that's the sole route for residents, working in half-width sections instead.
It depends on the number of floors and the amount of preparation needed, but we give a floor-by-floor time estimate up front so residents know roughly when their own landing will be affected.
Yes, we check collection days in advance and time the wettest stages of the work to avoid clashing with bin collection or expected deliveries.
We choose a direction for the whole stairwell and stick to it, usually top to bottom so drying paint is always below any resident still needing to reach the ground floor, never above them. Mixing directions between landings creates confusion and, worse, genuine access problems for residents on higher floors.
Rather than coating a full landing or flight in one pass, we work half the tread width at a time, always leaving a dry strip a resident can use to pass safely. It's slower than coating the whole width in one go, but it means nobody is ever fully cut off from their own front door.
Communal stairwells still need to carry bins out, post in, and the occasional delivery through a multi-day repaint. We check the building's collection day and any expected deliveries before finalising the schedule, so the wettest paint never coincides with the day the bins need to go out.
Handrails get touched by every resident on every trip up or down, so they're specified with a harder-wearing finish than the surrounding walls and coated in a way that allows use again sooner, even if the walls beside them are still curing longer.
Tell us the building's floor count and bin day and we'll return a stairwell sequencing plan.
Stairwell decoration works when residents always have a dry, obvious path to their own front door.
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