Award Painting · Est. 2007

Strata Painting Sydney

Strata painting in Sydney is a committee decision before it is a trade job, and the quote has to work for both. We paint common areas, external facades, carparks, balustrades and full buildings for owners corporations and strata managers across the upper North Shore and Hornsby district, and we present every job as a fixed written scope a committee votes on once.

Award Painting Pty Ltd holds Painting and Decorating Contractors Licence 222321C and carries $20M public liability insurance: the cover that matters when the work site is people's homes and the client is every owner in the building. Established in 2007, we respond to every strata enquiry same business day.

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Licence 222321C
$20M public liability
Master Painters Australia
HIA member

Key takeaways

We paint common areas, facades, carparks, balustrades and full buildings for owners corporations.
Every job is quoted as a fixed written scope your committee votes on once.
Residents get written notice, access windows and a site left clean each evening.
Licence 222321C and $20M public liability protect the owners corporation, not just us.
Apartment interiors and individual lots are quoted for owners, landlords and property managers.

Strata painting for owners corporations and managers

The strata work we quote covers everything an owners corporation is responsible for: lobbies, corridors, stairwells and lift surrounds; external facades and rendered walls; carparks, storage areas and plant rooms; balustrades, handrails and boundary fences; and full building repaints that take all of it in a single staged programme.

Strata managers deal with us directly and get the same thing every time: a scope tied to the building's actual condition, itemised pricing a committee reads without a translation session, and documentation that belongs in the owners corporation's records. As strata painters working across Sydney's upper North Shore and the Hornsby district, we quote everything from townhouse complexes and walk-up blocks to larger apartment buildings.

A scope your committee votes on once

Committee approvals stall when a quote arrives as a single number with no detail, because nobody wants to move a motion they cannot explain. Our strata quotes are written as a fixed scope instead: which surfaces, what preparation each gets, which coating systems, how many coats, and what each stage costs.

Staged pricing lets a building split the work across budget cycles, facade this year and internals the next, without re-quoting from scratch. And the scope is priced to hold: anything genuinely outside it is agreed in writing and priced before it is started, and never appears as a surprise line on the final invoice.

That discipline exists because strata is repeat work. A committee that felt burnt by variations never engages the same painter twice, and we quote accordingly.

Minimising disruption for residents

A strata repaint happens around people's homes, and the difference between a smooth job and a month of complaints to the strata manager is process. Residents get written notice before work starts near their lot, with clear dates and access windows for the areas affected.

Carpark bays, entries and corridors are never all closed at once: the programme keeps a path in and out of the building open through every stage. Drop sheets, masking and barriers go up each morning and the site is packed down clean each evening, because a common area is still somebody's front door at 6pm.

Notices, staging questions and resident concerns run through 1 clear point of contact, so the committee is not fielding painting queries lot by lot.

Why licence and insurance matter more in strata

When an owners corporation engages a contractor, it is the building, not the contractor, that wears the fallout if something goes wrong on common property. That is why the 2 questions every committee asks first are the right ones: is the painter licensed, and is the insurance real.

We answer both in writing. Award Painting Pty Ltd holds NSW Painting and Decorating Contractors Licence 222321C, and the certificate of currency for our $20M public liability insurance is supplied alongside the quote. Committees are entitled to verify the licence themselves on the NSW public register, and we encourage it.

We are also a member of Master Painters Australia and the Housing Industry Association, with over 20 years of workmanship behind the paperwork: substance for a decision a committee makes on paper before it sees a single brush.

Apartment interiors and individual lots

Not every strata job is a building-wide programme. Owners repaint apartments before a sale, landlords refresh between tenancies, and new buyers repaint before moving in. Apartment painting in Sydney carries its own constraints: shared lifts and corridors to protect, building access rules to follow, and neighbours on the other side of every wall.

We paint apartment interiors with the same protection discipline we bring to building repaints: floors sheeted, kitchens and wardrobes masked, furniture covered, and low-odour systems specified where the unit stays occupied. Lift protection, access requirements and working-hours rules are squared away with building management before the first tin arrives.

Keeping the building presentable between repaints

A full strata repaint is a capital works item; keeping the building looking freshly painted is maintenance, and buildings that treat the 2 separately spend less on both. Scuffed corridors, chipped balustrades, tagged walls and faded entries are small jobs when addressed on a schedule and expensive ones when left to accumulate for the next full repaint.

Our painting maintenance programs put that on a plan: scheduled inspections and touch-ups that hold the building's presentation between major repaints and give the committee a known annual figure instead of an unpredictable one. For buildings we repaint, the scope records which coating systems went on which surfaces, so every future touch-up matches what is already on the wall.

What clients say

Reviewed on the work, not the promises

“Quality job for an outstanding price. The team had attention to detail and we are very impressed. They were on time everyday and efficient. Definitely recommend.”

Ryan CBeaumont Hills

“I am very happy with the work done. Did a good job. Knew his stuff. Rodney and the team are very helpful hardworking and professional.”

Craig MBerowra

“One of the best trades I ever met! Appreciate your fast and very reliable service.”

MikhailMacquarie Park

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Strata Painting questions, answered

What do strata painters quote for an owners corporation?

Whatever the building needs: common area interiors such as lobbies, corridors and stairwells; external facades; carparks; balustrades and fences; or a full building repaint staged as 1 programme. Each quote is a fixed written scope with itemised pricing, prepared so a committee votes on it without needing anything decoded.

Do you provide documentation for the strata records?

Yes. The quote package includes our Painting and Decorating Contractors Licence 222321C details, the certificate of currency for our $20M public liability insurance, and the fixed written scope itself. The licence is verifiable on the NSW public register, and we encourage committees to check it.

How do you manage residents during a building repaint?

Residents get written notice before work starts near their lot, with dates and access windows for the areas affected. The programme never closes every entry or carpark area at once, the site is cleaned down at the end of each day, and all queries run through 1 point of contact rather than through the committee.

Do you paint individual apartments as well as whole buildings?

Yes. We paint apartment interiors for owners, landlords and property managers: pre-sale repaints, between-tenancy refreshes and full interior schemes. Floors are sheeted, joinery is masked and low-odour systems are specified for occupied units, with lift protection and building access rules handled with management beforehand.

Can the work be staged across budget years?

Yes. The scope is priced in stages from the start, so a building paints the facade in 1 budget cycle and the internals in the next without going back to market. Each stage carries its own itemised figure, which gives the committee a clean approval for each phase.

What happens if extra work is found once painting starts?

It stops before it starts. Anything genuinely outside the approved scope, such as concealed substrate damage, is documented, priced in writing and approved by the owners corporation before we touch it. Nothing lands on the final invoice that the committee has not already seen and agreed to.

Working out a budget first? Read the Sydney house painting cost guide or see the areas we paint. Going deeper, read what owners corporations should require before signing.