Planned maintenance decorating across Hampshire

What the system is

Planned decoration works from a condition survey: each elevation, common part and area given a condition grade and a suggested interval. Small, timely work is dramatically cheaper than deferred work — repainting sound joinery costs a fraction of repairing rotten joinery.

Preparation this system depends on

• Condition survey with a grade for each area or elevation
• Priority ranking — what must be done now versus next cycle
• Realistic intervals set by exposure and traffic, not by habit
• Specification written once so future cycles are comparable
• Budget schedule set out by year
• Re-survey at agreed intervals to keep the plan current

Where it is usually specified

• Apartment block external and common-part cycles
• Office estates on multi-year redecoration plans
• School estates planned around holiday windows
• Landlord portfolios with rolling void redecoration
• Care buildings decorated wing by wing on a cycle
• Retail estates with a standard brand specification

Trade-offs worth knowing before you commit

• — Exposed elevations need shorter cycles than sheltered ones
• — Deferring beyond failure introduces repair costs, not just decoration
• — Budget years rarely align with ideal decorating seasons
• — Access costs are lower when several items are done in one visit
• — A plan is only useful if it is re-surveyed periodically