Façade painting and decorating

Your Façade Painting and Decorating Contractor

A fundamental aspect of commercial maintenance and repair, is the thorough examination of all timberwork for signs of rot – especially in less accessible areas, where damage can go undetected for years until failure. We inspect your windows and glazing for any signs of damage, checking for cracked and rotten wood in need of repair and redecoration. Then, working with the best materials and processes, we apply the most appropriate methods for effective, durable timber and window repair, painting and decoration.

Experienced Commercial Façade Painting Contractor

Where paint is peeling, it’s important to redecorate before the exposed timber starts to rot. If the timbers are beyond repair, reconstruction work not only restores the building’s appearance but also provides essential protection from the elements.

Commercial Façade Painting

For those buildings with painted render or cladding, our quick and effective professional painters will effectively and methodically paint the façade of your building. If necessary, we can remove any existing paint, repair and renew the underlying render or cladding (if needed), then prime and paint, to give your property a fresh new look. Our years of experience allows Thomann-Hanry® to ensure your painting projects are managed from start to finish, with quality in mind. 

Heritage and Commercial Building Window Repair and Decoration Services

The Thomann-Hanry® team is expertly placed to carry out the maintenance work on your windows and frames. We don’t just paint and decorate windows, we also remove any defective putty and sealants and then replace and renew them. This ensures that windows, doors and other timber sections are free from leaks which might lead to water ingress. 

This cost effective remedial work offers your business peace of mind, knowing that our attention to detail and high standards of work will help to save you money in the long term. Types of windows our team can repair and decorate include:

• UPVC windows
• Timber windows
• Sash windows
• Metal windows
• Crittall windows
• Single glazed windows with putty

From a conservation perspective, redecoration is the most sustainable and carbon-efficient approach for heritage buildings of this age. Professor John Edwards, MA, DipBldgCons, CEnv, FCIOB, FRICS, IHBC, an internationally renowned authority on building conservation, Chartered Environmentalist and valued Thomann-Hanry® collaborator, comments:

“There are many buildings that have retained their original windows which are hundreds of years old, and even if they are just a few decades old, it makes sense to retain them and look after them properly. This is the sustainable approach to buildings and the most carbon-efficient approach. Those with a view that we have to replace existing older timber windows with new windows in order to make the windows more energy efficient are misguided. It is possible to improve the thermal efficiency of an existing window and even repairing an existing window can improve its thermal performance.”

Research by Glasgow Caledonian University for Historic Environment Scotland established an energy efficiency improvement of 15% by just repairing the window! However, these repairs have to be undertaken effectively which means taking the right approach, with the most appropriate skills, and knowledge. Not maintaining windows and doors properly, will lead to rot, decay, and finally falling into disrepair. Keeping on top of such maintenance tasks is economically beneficial, helps to improve energy-efficiency, and reduce the carbon foot-print of your building.

“It is unfortunate that the way we assess the energy performance of buildings does not take into account maintenance and repair”, says Prof. Edwards.

In reality, however, maintenance and repair do improve the thermal performance of buildings. Where masonry enclosing walls are concerned, as stated in BS7913, the British Standard for historic buildings, damp building fabric can be over a third less energy efficient. This indicates the need to keep the enclosing walls of a building in good repair as a way of improving the energy performance of the building.

Within the BSI PAS 2038, the recently published standard for improving the energy efficiency of non-domestic buildings, it states in the side notes that maintenance and repair will improve the energy performance of the building. It also highlights a qualification that many will need in order to work to this particular standard. It is the Level 3 Award in the energy efficiency and retrofit of traditional buildings.

This course is achieved through undertaking a two-day course with the Environment Study Centre. It is within this course that the value of maintenance and repair as a means to both sustain buildings and improve their energy performance is explained and taught, Prof. Edwards observes.

By choosing Thomann-Hanry® you can keep all of your façade and window repair and decoration under one roof – for a more joined-up, cohesive approach to your building maintenance.

All of our commercial painters and decorators are trained for the repair, maintenance, and conservation of joinery by the Repair Care International Dulux Academy.

Call our team today for a FREE quote on +44 (0) 20 8453 1494 or contact us to find out how Thomann-Hanry® Façade Painting and Decorating for Commercial Buildings can help you.