Cladding spraying for Worcester buildings
If you own or manage a clad commercial building in Worcester, you will know how quickly an elevation can slide from smart to shabby. Cladding spraying offers a route back without the cost, waste and downtime of stripping and recladding. The existing panels stay on the building and a specialist coating system is applied on site, restoring the colour and putting a fresh protective layer over the weathered original finish.
The qualifier that matters is “done properly”. We are a survey-led contractor: the building is inspected and the existing coating is tested before anything is specified or priced. No drive-by quotes, and no square-metre rates plucked from a photograph.
The building stock we typically work with locally
Away from the cathedral and the riverside, Worcester’s working buildings look much like the rest of Worcestershire’s. Profiled steel and composite panel units on the trading estates, retail and trade-counter parks at the edge of the city, and offices and showrooms with metal fascias, soffits and curtain wall framing. Schools, leisure centres and farm buildings turn up in the mix as well, usually with the same finishes and the same complaints. A great deal of it was originally finished in plastisol-coated steel that is now well past its decorative best, showing the familiar pattern of fading, chalking and the first traces of cut-edge corrosion at sheet ends and around openings.
All of these surfaces can usually be resprayed, provided the substrate underneath is sound. Establishing that soundness is exactly what the survey is for, and where panels are dented or scratched the survey records that too, so any repairs are in the scope from the start.
Our survey-first process, step by step
A surveyor visits the building, tests the adhesion of the existing coating, maps corrosion and damage, and checks the practical details that decide a programme: access, working hours, neighbouring units, vehicles and pedestrians. From those findings we write a specification covering preparation, repairs, corrosion treatment, the coating system and the finish colours. Only then do we price the work.
On site, the sequence is preparation first and colour last. Washing and degreasing, mechanical preparation where needed, treatment of cut edges and rust, priming of any bare metal, then controlled spray application with full masking of glazing, signage and hardstandings. Drying and overcoating times are respected even when that stretches the programme, because rushed coats are where failures start. We cover the county and beyond from the same base, so buildings in Droitwich Spa, Malvern, Evesham and Hereford get the same survey and the same specification discipline.
The honest part: when spraying will not save a building
Some buildings should not be sprayed, and we will say so. Panels corroded through, composite faces delaminating from their cores, widespread edge corrosion that has gone beyond treatment, failed fixings or a requirement for improved thermal or fire performance all point towards repair or recladding instead. Coating over a failing substrate buys a tidy photograph and a short-lived finish, and it is not work we are willing to sell. If the survey says no, you will get that conclusion in writing along with what we would do in your position.
Why the survey is the real product
Two quotations can name the same paint and still describe entirely different jobs. The difference is almost always preparation, and preparation can only be scoped from what the surveyor finds on the building. A survey-led contractor fixes the scope before fixing the price, which means the specification is something you can check the finished work against, elevation by elevation. It also keeps the conversation honest at handover, because both sides are looking at the same document. For a clad building in or around Worcester that has lost its colour but not its structure, the survey is the sensible first step.
