CommercialSanctuaries, classrooms, and halls repainted over breaks and between services.
Schools and churches only close for short windows: summer break, the holidays, or the days between services. We plan backwards from your reopening date and staff the crew to finish on time.
High sanctuaries and gymnasiums are handled from lifts and scaffolding. Long corridors get scrubbable finishes that take years of backpacks, carts, and mopping.
Every space is fully reset before students or congregants return. Furniture goes back, and we walk the building with you so nothing is left for your staff to finish.
On-site assessment
We walk the building with you, measure, note problem areas, and confirm your reopening date.
Written proposal
You get a line-item estimate with products, prep scope, and a firm schedule. No surprises.
Protect & prepare
Floors and furniture are covered, then walls are cleaned, sanded, patched, and primed.
Apply & inspect
Full coats go on, then we walk every room with you and correct anything before we call it done.
What an institutional repaint includes
Every school or church project covers the items below at one quoted price, scheduled to your calendar.
Break and holiday turnarounds
A crew sized to your closure, working several rooms at once to finish before reopening.
High ceiling access
Lifts and scaffolding for sanctuaries, gyms, and stairwells, set up and taken down by our crew.
Durable corridor finishes
Scrubbable coatings on halls and stairwells that stand up to backpacks, carts, and daily cleaning.
Low odor coatings
Low odor institutional products, so rooms are ready for students and congregants on schedule.
Wall repair
Dents, nail holes, and cracked seams patched and primed before a finish coat goes on.
Full reset before reopening
Furniture back in place and every room walked with you before the doors open.
Need more than paint?
Exterior doors and trim, popcorn ceiling removal in older wings, and wallpaper removal in offices can all be scheduled in the same closure. See popcorn ceiling removal or exterior painting, then tell us the scope and we will fold it into one estimate.
Colors that hold up in busy buildings
Light neutrals keep classrooms bright and corridors calm, and they touch up cleanly. One deep color at the lower wall hides the scuffs.
Big rooms with tall windows change color through the day. We test large samples on the actual walls of the sanctuary or classroom and check them in morning light and under the building’s own fixtures before anyone commits.
Pick colors you can buy again in five years. A short list of standard colors across the whole building makes future touch-ups fast and invisible. A darker lower band in the corridors hides the marks where traffic hits the wall.
The right sheen for each surface
- Sanctuary and classroom ceilings
- Flat
- Classroom and office walls
- Eggshell
- Corridors and stairwells
- Satin
- Restrooms and cafeterias
- Semi-gloss
- Doors, frames, and handrails
- Semi-gloss enamel
- Gym walls
- Semi-gloss
Commercial painting project
Dunwoody, Georgia
How to tell the building is due
Walk the halls the week after the last day of classes. These are the things we look for, and the ones worth booking a break for.
Scuffs that no longer wash off
When cleaning starts burnishing a shiny patch into the corridor wall, the paint film is spent.
Dents and scratches at chair height
Desks, carts, and backpacks wear a band into the lower wall long before the rest of the room needs paint.
Hairline cracks and nail pops
Settling shows up first along drywall seams and around door frames in halls and stairwells.
Fading on sunny walls
South and west classrooms fade fastest under strong afternoon light through big windows.
Whites that have yellowed
Ceilings and trim drift yellow over time, and patched spots stop matching the walls around them.
Hallways and stairwells take the most traffic in any building, and school and church corridors see more than most, so they come due well before ceilings and quieter rooms. Plan the work around a summer break or holiday closure. Call (678) 737-6776 to plan around your next closure.
Questions we hear most
Straight answers on timing, paint, payment, and the warranty. Anything else, ask us on the estimate visit or call (678) 737-6776.
Yes. We build the schedule around your first day back and staff the crew to hit it.
Regularly, including high walls, exposed structure, and stage areas. We bring lifts and scaffolding for the height.
Yes. Dunwoody Painters is fully licensed and insured, and our painters are background-checked and trained.
We use premium Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore products, chosen for durability and washability. Corridors, classrooms, and sanctuaries each get the product and sheen that suits them.
You pay nothing until the job is finished and you are fully satisfied. Every project also carries a written workmanship warranty, with the term printed on your estimate and invoice.
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