12 / decorating
Interior walls, ceilings, joinery and detail work for retail, hospitality, healthcare and education. Designer-spec literate. Substrate-specific paint systems. Two-pack capability where the environment demands it.
When this is the right route
Scope · included
Scope · not included
Sectors
Process
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Substrate walk: plasterboard, MDF, exposed steel, masonry. Designer spec reviewed. Any ambiguity flagged in writing before mobilisation. Sample finish requirement agreed and cut on the actual substrate.
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Stack per surface: walls in Diamond Matt or Sheen 4, joinery in Quick Dry Eggshell, exposed steel in two-pack epoxy or PU where the environment demands it. Sheen levels agreed against physical samples, not RAL codes on paper.
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Project-specific RAMS: dust control in occupied environments, COSHH for any solvent or two-pack products, masking schedule per surface type. Issued before mobilisation.
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Phase by surface type: masking, prep, prime, top-coats, demask. Designer or PC walks the line at each phase, not just at practical completion.
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Photo record, touch-up kit, dry-film record where two-pack systems were used. Live snag list closed within 48 hours of sign-off.
On the books
Premier Inn · R.G. Carter framework
UK · R.G. Carter Projects Ltd
Case study
UK · Retail
Hotel decoration package for a Premier Inn property, delivered through the R.G. Carter framework. Guest rooms, corridors, back-of-house and external elevations all finished to the Premier Inn brand specification. Programme phased around live occupancy.
This case study supports searches for live-site commercial decorating, retail refurbishment, on-site spraying and aluminium frame restoration by showing the kind of programme, access and handover constraints A Star Decorators handles for national estate clients.
Read project →Built for the people who buy decorating
We are a specialist sub-contractor, not a turnkey fit-out outfit. We deliver decorating, spraying, restoration and coatings under main contractors and direct estate teams.
For main contractors
Variations priced ahead of the request. Per-store handover record. AFPs delivered on the day they're due. We run the way you run.
For estate + FM teams
Survey to handover without closing the unit. Powder-coat restoration with a 5-7 year service life. Run-off, masking and reopening tracked store-by-store.
For retail estate leads
Brand-matched paint stacks against the estate spec. KPI reporting per store. Programme that survives shopfit slippage instead of inheriting it.
Find the right route
Most visitors arrive with a sector problem before they know the coating system. These routes match the way buyers search: home and residential work, retail fit-out programmes, and industrial painting or warehouse coatings.
Domestic and residential decorating
We come from commercial sites: Primark stores, Tesco superstores, occupied warehouses. That discipline carries into residential work. A proper survey before quoting, written dust-control plans, and a room-by-room handover that does not leave loose ends.
Retail decorating contractors
Retail decorating is not about paint. It is about working nights around store teams, matching brand colour exactly, absorbing late variation instructions without losing the handover date, and walking away with a signed snag list. Not a punch list left for someone else to close.
Industrial painting contractors
Industrial and warehouse scopes need the coating system specified by substrate condition, not by what is cheapest to apply. We survey the floor, the cladding, the steelwork and the roof before recommending a system, then plan MEWP access, exclusion zones and drying-time sequencing around live operations.
How we deliver
Twenty years finishing commercial buildings across the UK. Director led, directly employed crews, one programme and one point of contact from survey to handover.
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Stores stay open. Surveys, masking and run off planned around foot traffic.
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Night programmes on retail and hospitality estates. Clean before doors open.
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Rolling 4 to 12 stores a week against a national programme.
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Offices in Poole and London. Crews mobilised across England, Scotland and Wales.
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Decorating, on site spraying, powder coat restoration and floor coatings under one PM.
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Before and after record, gloss readings and written service life on every scheme.
Frequently asked
Yes. We read the schedule, query ambiguities in writing before mobilisation, sample-cut on the actual substrate, and never substitute a paint without the designer's sign-off.
Quick Dry Eggshell water-based is our standard. Same hardness as oil, no yellowing, dry within 4 hours. Traditional oil-based is available if the spec explicitly calls for it.
Yes. Pantone or RAL matched on site, sampled on the substrate and signed off before mobilisation. We carry mixing kit for minor site adjustments.
Two-pack epoxy or polyurethane for industrial or high-exposure environments, water-based hard-wearing for indoor commercial. We choose the system by exposure class.
A live snag list is maintained by the site supervisor throughout delivery. Anything raised at sign-off is closed within 48 hours of handover.
Start a conversation
We will review the service route, access, preparation, finish and likely next step before the job is priced properly.
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