Cladding spraying in Truro
Cornwall is unforgiving territory for coated metal. With the sea never far away in any direction, salt is in the air across the county, and clad buildings around Truro weather noticeably faster than their inland equivalents. Cladding spraying in Truro deals with that reality on site: the existing profiled steel or composite panels are cleaned, prepared and repaired, then spray-coated with a system specified for the condition of the substrate and the severity of the exposure.
We will not specify that system from a phone call. Every job starts with a survey and adhesion testing, because Cornish exposure punishes assumptions. The aim is a finish that stands up to the local conditions, not one that just looks right for its first summer.
The buildings this usually involves locally
The working stock around the city is a mix: trade and retail units on the business parks, industrial and workshop buildings, depots, agricultural sheds, and leisure and visitor-facing premises with metal fascias and trims. The defects follow the climate. Plastisol chalks and fades quickly on exposed elevations, algae and staining build on the sheltered ones, and cut-edge corrosion appears early at sheet ends, laps and around openings. Caught in time, all of it is treatable; left for years, the sheet ends themselves start to go.
Mixed construction is common across Cornwall, and where coated cladding sits alongside render or blockwork, the elevations can usually be brought into a single coherent scheme. Roofs, gutters and flashings can join the specification where their condition justifies the work, making better use of the access while it is in place.
The survey-led sequence
First the survey: adhesion tests on the existing coating, corrosion mapping with close attention to edges and fixings, a check of gutters, flashings and sealants, and an honest note of anything that needs repair before coating. Then the specification, in writing, covering preparation, treatment, repairs, the coating system and the colours. Only then the price and the programme. Coastal jobs are also planned around the weather window, because application conditions, temperature, moisture and wind, decide as much of the outcome as the products do.
- On-site survey and adhesion testing before any quotation
- Exposure-appropriate system selection, not a one-size default
- Cut-edge corrosion treated and primed before topcoats
- Masking and protection for glazing, signage and neighbouring areas
- Handover inspection against the written specification
The same process covers the rest of the county, with buildings in Falmouth, Redruth, Newquay and St Austell surveyed and delivered on identical terms.
When we say no
Some buildings have simply gone too far, and coating them would be taking your money for a finish with no future. Sheets perforated by rust, composite panels delaminating, edge corrosion that has consumed the metal, or fixings that have failed all need repair or replacement first. And where a building requires insulation or fire-performance work that only recladding achieves, a respray is the wrong project entirely. If the survey reaches any of those conclusions, you will get them in writing rather than a quote. Partial answers are common here too: replace the worst sheets or sheet ends, treat what remains, then coat the building as a whole. The survey is what separates that judgement from guesswork.
Why survey-led suits this coastline
The gap between a coating that lasts and one that peels is almost always preparation, and the right preparation can only be scoped by someone standing in front of the building. A survey-led contractor fixes that scope before the price, matches the system to the exposure rather than to habit, and leaves you with a written specification to judge the work against. For clad buildings in Truro and across Cornwall, that approach respects both the building and the climate it lives in. It is the way we would want our own buildings treated, and it is the only way we work.
