Decorating a property beside a tidal harbour or slipway is not simply a matter of picking a dry week. Low tide can determine whether ground-level access is even possible, and the wider season affects humidity, daylight and how much disruption a busy waterfront can tolerate.
No, only sites where ground-level or slipway access genuinely depends on tide state. Most coastal properties are planned around weather and daylight rather than tide tables specifically.
It is more constrained rather than impossible. Shorter days and slower drying mean a longer programme, but some interior and sheltered exterior work can still proceed sensibly through winter.
For sites where it matters, we check tide tables at the programming stage, well before mobilisation, so access-dependent days are scheduled rather than discovered on the morning.
On some slipway and harbourside sites, certain areas are only reachable at particular states of the tide, and access equipment cannot always be left in position across a rising tide. We plan around tide tables as carefully as we plan around forecast rain for these sites.
Summer gives longer working days and generally lower humidity, both of which suit exterior coating work, while winter brings shorter daylight and slower drying that can extend a job considerably even without a single day lost to rain.
A marina or harbourside business often has its own busy season that does not necessarily match the best weather window for painting, so the final programme is usually a compromise between tide, weather and the client's own operating calendar.
Tell us about any tidal access constraints at your site and we will build the programme around them from the start.
Some coastal sites need tide tables as much as weather forecasts, and a sensible programme accounts for both from the outset.
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