Hotel Painting in Phuket for Hotels and Resorts

Which areas does the hotel and resort painting service cover?

Hotel painting in Phuket by Phuket Pro Painters covers paintwork for accommodation of every size, from guesthouses and boutique hotels to resorts with many buildings. The service belongs to our commercial painting for buildings and businesses and has one defining feature: every day a room is closed for painting is revenue lost. The work plan therefore matters as much as the quality of the paintwork.

The areas we take on are:

• Guest rooms: walls, ceilings and the balcony walls of each room
• Corridors and lift lobbies, which are scuffed by luggage and housekeeping trolleys
• Lobby, restaurants and meeting rooms
• Back-of-house areas: staff rooms, service corridors, storerooms
• Building exteriors: outside walls, boundary walls, entrance structures and the walls around the pool
• Timber and steel features: salas, slats, balcony railings, gates

How is hotel painting phased so the hotel can keep taking guests?

The principle for painting a hotel that is trading is to separate the work area clearly from the areas guests use, in terms of sight, sound and smell. This is how Phuket Pro Painters plans the phases with the property's management.

Closing a block of adjoining rooms works better than closing rooms scattered across the hotel. The painters set up once, and guests in other rooms do not have to walk through a work area.

How does a hotel or resort painting job run?

1. Site survey with the management or engineering team. The painter measures the areas, checks the paint condition and collects the occupancy pattern. The survey is free.
2. Written quotation itemised by zone, so management can do everything or start with selected zones.
3. A joint phase plan that sets the rooms and areas closed in each period.
4. Screening and signs. Floors, carpets, fitted furniture and light fittings are protected.
5. Surface preparation. Stains are washed off, flaking paint is scraped, and the surface is sanded, with small holes and hairline surface marks filled.
6. Primer and top coats in the number of coats agreed.
7. Phase-by-phase inspection with the hotel's contact person, cleaning, and return of the area to housekeeping.

The painters carry materials through the hotel's service routes, not the lobby, and store equipment each day at the point the hotel specifies.

How do Phuket's weather and tourist seasons affect hotel painting?

Hotels in Phuket face two demands that pull against each other. The weather that suits exterior painting most is the dry season, roughly November to April, which is the high season when rooms are full and nobody wants to see scaffolding. The monsoon, roughly May to October, leaves many rooms empty, but rain slows exterior work.

A workable answer is to split the work by type.

• Guest rooms and interior work go in the low season, because they do not depend on rain and rooms can be closed in rotation.
• Exterior walls go in the weeks between seasons, or one face at a time on days when the wall is fully dry, with spare days allowed for rain.
• Exterior steel and timber are done in dry spells, because the surface must be dry before priming.

Beachfront properties take salt directly. The sea-facing walls chalk and dull faster than the others, and balcony railings and steel frames rust readily. Resorts set in tropical gardens have shaded walls that grow moss and black stains. Guest rooms left with the air conditioning off between guests build up humidity until mould appears in ceiling corners and bathrooms. Washing stains off and choosing paint that the manufacturer states is mould resistant are therefore basic requirements for guest rooms in Phuket.

How are smell, noise and cleanliness controlled during hotel painting?

Hotel guests should notice the painting as little as possible. Three things need control.

Smell. Low-odour, water-based interior paint suits guest rooms and corridors. Ventilating the room being painted, and keeping the floor's fire doors closed, stops the smell reaching occupied rooms. Work that uses solvent-based paint, such as steelwork, should be done in open areas or while that floor has no guests.

Noise. Scraping and sanding are louder than painting, so they are done in the daytime hours when most guests are out, within the times the hotel sets.

Cleanliness. The painters lay floor protection along the whole route used for carrying materials and clean the work area before leaving each day, so corridors are ready for use in the evening.

What is not included in hotel and resort painting?

Phuket Pro Painters does not take on waterproofing, structural crack repair or leak repair. A guest room with water stains on the ceiling, a bathroom wall with damp showing through on the far side, or a roof slab that lets water in must be fixed by a specialist and left to dry before painting. The surface preparation we carry out is washing, scraping loose old paint, sanding, filling small holes and hairline surface marks, and priming. The inside surface of a swimming pool is also outside our scope.

What should hotel management prepare before painting?

1. The occupancy calendar, with the dates of group bookings and functions.
2. A list of rooms and areas to be painted, in order of urgency.
3. The standard colour codes of the hotel or the brand.
4. One contact person from engineering or housekeeping who inspects and accepts each phase.
5. The storage point, the route for carrying materials, and the water and power points for the painters.
6. Removal of items from rooms, such as curtains, bedding and ornaments, before the painters go in.

How is hotel and resort painting hired and priced?

Hotel and resort painting can be hired in two ways: labour only, where the hotel buys the paint in the quantity we work out, or labour and paint together. Labour only is a common arrangement in Thailand for properties that already have a supplier. The site survey and measurement are free. A written quotation is issued before work starts, every time, with surface preparation and scaffolding or work at height as separate lines, and with the period and terms of the workmanship warranty after handover. The team speaks English, so foreign general managers and engineering managers can deal with us directly.

Estimated rates are on the painting prices and how costs are worked out page, and a purchasing department can use the first-budget painting calculator to estimate a budget per room or per zone before booking a survey.

Is hotel painting the right service, or does another one fit better?

Hotel and resort painting suits properties that sell rooms by the night and must plan around occupancy. If your building is a residential condominium with a juristic person, see the page on painting condos and their common areas. If the hotel building is too tall for scaffolding, the exterior walls need the high-rise rope-access painting service, which is priced only after a site survey. The owner of a single rental pool villa should see the villa and pool villa painting page.

How do I book a survey for hotel and resort painting?

Call 063-004-0115, or send details of the property and the scope of work by WhatsApp, to arrange a free site survey. All contact channels are on the contact the team about hotel work page.