Condo & Apartment Painting in Toronto
Unit repaints in Toronto condo towers, including the building paperwork that stops most painting jobs before they start.
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- Fixed written quote
- 1,000+ homes painted
Painting a Toronto condo is 20% painting and 80% building management. Most towers require a certificate of insurance naming the corporation, a booked service elevator with padding installed, a specific loading dock window, restricted work hours, and a deposit against damage to common elements. Miss one and the concierge stops the job at the door.
Included
- Certificate of insurance issued naming the condominium corporation as required
- Service elevator booking, padding and loading dock window coordination
- Compliance with the building’s permitted work hours and noise restrictions
- Full corridor and common-element protection from the elevator to your door
- Removal and reinstallation of switch plates, vent covers and closet hardware
Not included
- Any alteration to common elements or anything outside your unit boundary
- Popcorn ceiling removal in pre-1990 buildings without a clear asbestos test result
- Work outside the building’s permitted hours, which we cannot override
How we deliver it
- 01
Building requirements first
Before we price the paint, we read your building’s contractor package. COI wording, elevator booking, permitted hours, deposit, all of it is confirmed in writing before your start date.
- 02
Access day
Elevator booked and padded, corridor runners down from the lift to your door, dock window confirmed with the concierge.
- 03
Protect and prep
Floors fully covered, plates and vent covers off, holes filled and sanded. Builder-grade flat marks easily, so anything scuffed from move-in gets fixed rather than painted over.
- 04
Two coats, low odour
Zero- or low-VOC throughout. Condo units do not ventilate the way houses do, and you and your neighbours have to breathe the air that evening.
Specification
- Typical substrate
- Drywall over concrete, builder-grade flat finish
- Building paperwork
- COI, elevator booking, dock window, damage deposit, handled by us
- Product
- Zero/low-VOC washable matte or eggshell
- Ventilation
- Assumed limited, product chosen accordingly
- Typical duration
- 1–2 days for a one- or two-bedroom unit
- Re-occupancy
- Same evening
- Ceilings
- Assessed for popcorn texture; pre-1990 requires asbestos testing first
Questions
Full FAQDo you handle the condo board paperwork?
Yes, and it is the main reason people call us rather than a general painter. Send us the building’s contractor package at the walkthrough. We issue the certificate of insurance with the corporation named exactly as the building requires, book and pad the service elevator, confirm the loading dock window, and post any damage deposit. This is the step that most often causes a job to be turned away at the door on day one.
Can you paint my condo while I am living in it?
Yes. A one- or two-bedroom unit is usually a one- to two-day job and we specify zero-VOC products throughout, so the unit is re-occupiable the same evening. Condo ventilation is limited compared with a house, which is exactly why product selection matters more here than anywhere else we work.
My condo has a popcorn ceiling. Can you remove it?
It depends on the age of the building. If your tower was built before roughly 1990, the texture may contain asbestos and must be tested before anyone disturbs it, we will not scrape an untested pre-1990 ceiling, and neither should anyone else. If testing comes back clear, or the building is newer, removal is straightforward. If it comes back positive, the work belongs to a licensed abatement contractor, not to us.
Why does my builder-grade paint mark so easily?
Because it is flat, and flat paint has almost no binder at the surface to resist abrasion. Builders specify it because it hides drywall imperfections cheaply and they are not the ones living with it. Moving to a modern washable matte or an eggshell gives you a wall you can actually wipe down without burnishing a shiny patch into it.
- Interior paintingWhole-home and room-by-room interior repaints, quoted from a written finish specification rather than a verbal ballpark.→
- Ceilings & popcornStipple and popcorn texture removal, skim coating and ceiling repainting, with mandatory asbestos testing on anything pre-1990.→
- Commercial paintingOffices, retail units, restaurants and multi-residential common areas, scheduled around your operating hours rather than ours.→
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- 1,000+ homes painted
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- Fixed written quotes
- Serving Toronto and the GTA