Colour Consulting Institutional
As with painting commercial properties, when painting for institutional customers, the question of colour is still prevalent. Colour Consultants can play an important role here. When painting Toronto institutional projects, COMPASE recommends using colour consultants.
Sylvia O’ Brien is the creative director of Colour Theory. We interviewed Sylvia recently, this is part one, of a 2 part interview.
Sylvia is explaining how the clients needs and [...]
Commercial Colour Consulting
Colour Consultants can play an important role in choosing colour for commercial spaces. For Toronto Painting Projects, COMPASE is using the Colour Consulting of Sylvia O’ Brien.
Sylvia is a colour consultant and creative director of Colour Theory. Recently, we had a chance to interview Sylvia.
This is part one, of a 2 part interview.
Sylvia, I suppose the choice of colours [...]
Building Exterior Paint Maintenance
The exterior surfaces of a building can be cleaned and maintained to extend the life cycle of a paint job. Surfaces should be checked every year, or at least every two years to ensure the painted surfaces are protected from the elements.
- There should be no cracks or blisters of the paint.
- There should also [...]
Painting Health Centre.
COMPASE, local Toronto Painters was awarded the commercial contract to paint the large interior of the Parkdale Community Health Centre. PCHC is a non-profit community health centre located in the Queen and Dufferin area of Toronto.
80% of the space had to be painted during business hours without a major interruption to the every day routine of [...]
Painting Food Services Refrigerator
COMPASE (Commercial Painting) was contracted to clean and paint a Food Service refrigerator in a dining carea-cafeteria. This was for one of our regular customers, a not-for-profit organization, a large retirement home located in the south west area of Toronto.
The timeline of the project was understandably tight.
The customers staff had to empty the refrigerator and air [...]
Painting older building in Toronto, Lead concerns
As the debate about lead in old paint is heating up south of the border, it is important to keep aware of the issues faced by Toronto Painters here.
Lead is a harmful substance that was used widely by paint manufacturers. It improved paint performance and durability.
The problem was that the lead in paint was very [...]
Exterior Mississauga Painting
Sometimes restoring a structure makes way more sense, environmentally or financially, than replacing it. This was the case when our Missisauga Painters were asked to work on the finish of this sign at the Toronto Pearson International Airport area. The original blue colour was fading, peeling and rust was making its appearance everywhere.
First of all, the surfaces [...]
Painting Office space after hours.
Even with the use of zero VOC paints, painting office space during regular business hours can be inconvenient and even harmful to the office staff and everyday users of the space.
Responsible Painting Contractors will try to minimize the effect their painting services have on the everyday operations of the facility and the indoor air quality.
Office [...]
Costs of Painting a Facility
When choosing painting services for a commercial facility, the price of the materials, paint and labour are of course taken into account. Looking at the initial cost of painting in isolation with other factors, would make the choices as simple as an apples to apples comparison between painting contractors.
In that case, the most cost effective [...]
