Apartment & Multi-Family Painting
Apartment painting built around unit turns
Apartment painting in Charlotte, NC on a unit turn schedule: vacant units painted wall to wall, plus breezeways, corridors and amenity rooms. We work off your property color standard and send a free written estimate.
Residential & Commercial Painting in Charlotte, NC
What Apartment & Multi-Family Painting includes
Property work is measured in turn days, not rooms. We scope it the way your make-ready list reads, unit by unit and area by area.
Vacant unit turns painted wall to wall between residents
Make-ready patching, caulking and spot-priming before any finish coat
Ceilings, walls, trim, doors and closet interiors in one visit
Breezeways, stairwells and corridors coated around resident traffic
Clubhouse, leasing office and amenity room repaints
Railings, balcony ceilings and metal stair stringers recoated
Building exteriors and siding for apartment communities and HOAs
Property color and sheen standard recorded for later touch-ups
How the work goes
How Apartment & Multi-Family Painting Works
The sequence is built to hand a unit back fast without leaving a punch list behind.
Walk the property
We walk a sample of units and the common areas with your manager, note patch volume, staining and any units that read worse than the rest, and price from what we saw.
Set the color standard
We record your wall, ceiling and trim colors and sheens in the written scope. A recorded standard is what lets a turn two years from now match the corridor beside it.
Patch and prep
We fill nail holes and dents, cut out and repair damaged drywall, caulk opened trim joints, and spot-prime bare patches so the repair does not flash a different sheen.
Block the stains
Marker, grease, nicotine and water stains get a stain-blocking primer first. Wall paint alone lets those bleed back through within days, which is how a finished unit fails inspection.
Two coats, unit by unit
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors get two full coats where color or coverage calls for it. We finish a whole unit before moving on so nothing sits half-painted.
Punch list and close-out
We walk each unit with your team, hit the callbacks the same visit, pull masking, and haul out debris so the unit is ready to show rather than ready to clean.
Materials we use
Unit turns run on water-based acrylic wall paint in a scrubbable eggshell or satin. That category recoats fast, which is what keeps a vacancy short, and the cured film takes a wet rag without burnishing to a shiny patch. Trim, doors and jambs get a water-based enamel, because a hard enamel film resists the scuffs a move-in day puts on a door edge and a corner bead.
Primer choice depends on what the last resident left behind. Marker, grease, smoke and water stains get a stain-blocking primer, since those bleed straight through fresh wall paint and show again within a week. Bare drywall behind a repair gets primed so the patch does not flash. Nail holes and dents take a lightweight patching compound, and flexible acrylic caulk closes trim joints that opened as the building settled.
Sheen is chosen per surface and then written down as the property standard. Ceilings stay flat to hide framing lines and older texture. Walls take eggshell or satin so they wash instead of wearing. Trim and doors take semi-gloss. Two full coats go on any wall changing color or covering a stain, because one coat over a dark accent reads blotchy under corridor light. Breezeway ceilings and railings take exterior-grade coatings for moisture and UV.
What affects the price
Every project is different, so we quote after a walkthrough rather than guessing over the phone. Here's what generally moves the price and schedule:
Unit count and how many turns are batched into one mobilization
Condition inside each unit: patch volume, staining, and the quality of the last repaint
Whether units are vacant or occupied, since occupied work needs notice and phasing
Color changes off the property standard, which add a second full coat
Access on breezeways, stairwells and upper floors, including ladder or lift staging
After-hours or weekend windows in corridors and amenity rooms to keep traffic moving
Recent Work
Apartment & Multi-Family Painting projects from around Charlotte, NC
Service Area
Serving Charlotte, NC and the surrounding area
We're based in Charlotte, NC and take on apartment & multi-family painting projects throughout Ballantyne, Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia, Huntersville, Indian Trail, Lake Norman, Matthews, Mint Hill, Monroe, Mooresville, Pineville, Rock Hill, SouthPark, Statesville, Waxhaw, and Weddington. Not sure if you're in range? Reach out and ask.
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