Turnovers
A turnover has a date attached to it.
A unit between tenants is not earning anything, and the painting sits on the critical path. This page covers how the scope and the production plan are built around the date the unit is needed.
How a turnover is planned
Turnover painting: working backwards from the ready date.
The date comes first
Before anything is scoped we need the date the unit has to be ready and what has to be true by then. Everything after this is worked backwards from it, which is why it is the first question rather than a detail at the end.
Assessing a vacant space
An empty unit can be assessed properly — every wall, ceiling, trim run and door, and the actual condition each is in after the last tenancy. Patching, previous repairs, scuffing and wear are recorded rather than estimated from the doorway.
A written scope for the unit
What is being painted, the preparation each surface gets, and the product and finish specified. When you run a standard across your units, that specification is what we work to; when a unit needs more than the standard, the difference is priced rather than absorbed or skipped.
A production plan built around the date
The scope, the preparation it requires and the coating times it implies are what determine how the work is sequenced and resourced against your date. Where the date and the scope do not fit together, you hear that while there is still time to decide what matters more.
More than one unit
Unit turnovers rarely arrive one at a time.
Several units with different dates is a sequencing problem before it is a painting problem, and it is easier to solve on paper than in the building.
One specification, repeated
Where you have a standard color and finish for a unit type, it is recorded once and applied to every unit that uses it — so the fifth unit is specified the same way as the first, and a walkthrough is confirming condition rather than re-deciding the paint.
Sequenced by date, not by convenience
Units are ordered by when each one is needed. Where two dates collide, that is a conversation before work starts rather than a discovery in the second week.
One point of contact across them
Status for every unit comes from one person, so you are not assembling a picture of your own property from separate conversations.
What to send us
The unit, the date, and anything you already standardise on.
That is enough to arrange a walkthrough. You do not need a surface list, a product or a color decided — those come out of the assessment and go into the written scope.