A commercial painting company that turns up with the owner.
Occupied offices, retail, multi-unit and warehouse interiors across Houston. On Houston jobs Ray's in the building before there's a price on it, the scope comes in writing with a number against each line, and Ray is aerial lift certified.
122 Google reviews, 5.0 average.
What to ask any commercial painter before you sign.
Rise and Prime Painting is a commercial painting company working occupied offices, retail units, multi-unit buildings and warehouse interiors across Houston, and on Houston jobs Raymond Gomez, who owns the company, is the person walking the building before it's priced.
Ray is aerial lift certified, for boom and scissor lift work on warehouse ceilings and high elevations.
Rise and Prime is an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm, which the EPA requires for paid work that disturbs paint in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities.
On Houston jobs the owner does the walkthrough. Ray is the one measuring the building and writing the scope himself.
Ray and the crew speak Spanish, which matters on a lot of Houston commercial sites.
122 Google reviews at a 5.0 average, across Houston and Baltimore.
The scope arrives in writing with a number against each line, so a manager can hand it to a board without translating it.
Each of those six is a plain fact about our commercial painting services, and a fair one to check against any other bid.
Describe the building, and Ray will walk it.
Property type, rough size, and the hours it has to keep operating. He'll walk it, then put the scope in writing with a number against each line.
- 122 Google reviews, 5.0 average
- EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm
- Fully insured
- 3-Year Workmanship Warranty
The paint is rarely what changes.
Six kinds of building, and each one comes with its own access, schedule and constraints.
Offices and coworking
Work planned around people who are still using the space.
The interior painting on an occupied office is the easy part. What's hard is containment, dust, odor and the route your crew takes through a floor people are working on. That means sequencing by zone instead of by wall, low-odor products where the space stays occupied, and knowing which corridors and lifts you're allowed to use before the first drop cloth comes out. Ask a painter how they'll handle the lift lobby and you'll learn a lot about whether they've done one of these before.
Interior commercial paintingRetail and restaurant
Trading hours set the schedule, not the other way around.
Retail's the sector where the schedule is the product. A shopfront or a dining room has hours it can't afford to lose, so the schedule is settled at the walkthrough, and the finish has to be hard enough for a public space's wear. Color matching to a brand standard is part of the job here, and so is the question of what happens if something isn't dry when the doors open.
Multi-unit and HOA
Common areas, corridors, stairwells and unit turns.
Multi-unit work is a logistics job with painting in it. Corridors and stairwells are shared, so the space is never empty and the access is never simple. Unit turns have a handover date that doesn't move. The scope goes in writing with a number beside each line, so a board has something concrete to act on, and that's how we quote anyway.
Baltimore multi-unit workWarehouse and industrial
The ceilings and structure that need a lift to reach at all.
This is where the aerial lift certification stops being a line on a page. Warehouse ceilings, exposed structure, mezzanines and high walls all need a boom or a scissor lift and somebody certified to operate it, so ask who's certified before you compare quotes. Floor coatings on the same job get handled as commercial epoxy.
Commercial epoxy floorsBuildings built before 1978
EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm. Required for paid work in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities.
Disturbing paint in a pre-1978 building can fall under federal lead-safety rules, including EPA's rule for pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities. Rise and Prime's an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm, which covers the containment, the work practices and the cleanup verification that regulation asks for.
Insurance and paperwork
Certificates, scope in writing, and a single point of contact.
Commercial work arrives with paperwork attached and most of it's reasonable. A certificate of insurance naming the building and a written scope a manager can hand to a board. On Houston jobs, Ray's that person.
Offices, break rooms and a warehouse.
A break room and an office wall in color, and a warehouse floor in high-gloss gray.
Walkthrough, scope, paperwork, containment, production, sign-off.
The painting occupies the middle of that list. Most of what decides whether a commercial job goes well happens on either side of it.
The walkthrough
On Houston jobs that's Ray, on site, measuring. Access, hours, lift requirements and the real condition of what's there, none of which survives a phone call.
Scope in writing, line by line
Surfaces, preparation, products and coats, each with a number beside it. A manager can take it straight to a board without translating it first.
Insurance and building requirements
Certificate of insurance naming the building, plus whatever the property needs before anyone is on site.
Containment and protection
Zones sealed, floors and fixtures covered, routes agreed. On a pre-1978 building this is where the lead-safe work practices kick in.
Production, by zone
The work moves zone by zone so the building keeps functioning around it, and the crew works to whatever access windows the property gave us.
Walk it with the manager
Punch list walked and agreed together on site, so nothing gets left to a back-and-forth over email.
Two different jobs that share a building.
Commercial interior and commercial exterior get handled as separate scopes because they're two different jobs under one roof. Interior means containment and scheduling inside a space people are still using; exterior means weather, access and substrate on a building that never closes.
They're quoted together when it makes sense, but the access needs keep them from happening at the same time.
The coating systems we trust on commercial work.
Sherwin-Williams, matched to the surface it is going on. A warehouse wall, a masonry elevation and an office corridor are three different problems, and the line that suits one is the wrong answer on another.
Duration
Built for Interior and exterior, by substrate
Built to sit outside in Houston sun and Baltimore winters. It stays flexible as the substrate moves, and that flexibility is most of what stops a coat cracking.
SuperPaint
Built for Interior and exterior, by substrate
The workhorse. On the right surface it does everything the premium lines do for less, and knowing which surfaces those are is the job.
Loxon
Built for Masonry and stucco
Masonry is alkaline and it breathes. Loxon is built for that.
Which one your house gets is decided by the surface, at the walkthrough. The product name is written on the quote before you sign it, so you can look it up yourself.
Take it from the people who've hired us.
Commercial painting questions.
Do you paint occupied commercial buildings?
Occupied buildings are normal commercial work for us, and they change how a job gets planned far more than how it gets painted. The work's sequenced by zone so the building keeps operating, containment goes up before anything's disturbed, and access routes are agreed with the property before day one. Tell us the constraints early, because on a commercial job they're what decides the schedule.
Can you work after hours or on weekends?
After-hours and weekend work is available on occupied offices and commercial spaces when the project and its scheduling requirements call for it. It's a per-project decision settled at the walkthrough, because the hours a building can give up are specific to that building and its tenants. Bring your access windows and the schedule gets written around them.
Can you reach a warehouse ceiling or a three-story elevation?
Warehouse ceilings, exposed structure, mezzanines and high exterior elevations are all reachable, because Ray is aerial lift certified. The reach, the access and the equipment are part of the written scope from the walkthrough.
Are you EPA Lead-Safe certified?
Rise and Prime Painting is an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm. It matters in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities, where disturbing existing paint is federally regulated and the containment, work practices and cleanup verification are all prescribed. It's worth asking every contractor you're considering, because it isn't something a company can arrange once the job has started.
Who shows up, and who do I call?
On Houston jobs, Ray Gomez, who owns the company, walks the building himself before anything's priced. Crews are typically two to four painters, scaled to the scope, and both Ray and the crew speak Spanish. The written scope from that walkthrough is what the crew works to, and the company is fully insured.
How do you price commercial work?
Commercial jobs are priced off the walkthrough, with a written scope that puts a number against each line: surfaces, preparation, products and coats. There is no published rate card, because a corridor repaint and a warehouse ceiling have almost nothing in common. On commercial work and other larger projects the proposal is usually sent after the visit rather than written on site, and once it is written the price is fixed for that agreed scope, with anything outside it handled as a change order. On qualifying painting projects the 3-Year Workmanship Warranty covers the workmanship on what we prepare and paint, and it starts the day the project is completed.
Do you handle repeat and scheduled work?
Common areas, corridors and unit turns go on a known cycle instead of waiting for an emergency, and a building repainted on schedule spends less than one that waits for the surfaces to fail. Talk to Ray about what a cycle would look like on your property.
What size commercial jobs do you take?
Commercial jobs range from single offices and suites to multi-unit buildings and warehouse interiors, and every one is priced at the walkthrough. The useful conversation is about your dates.
Do you work outside Houston?
Rise and Prime Painting works Houston and the north side, and the Baltimore metro, where the company started and where Ray holds Maryland license MHIC #120401. Texas does not require a general painting contractor license. We carry 122 Google reviews at a 5.0 average across both markets.
Are you insured for commercial work?
Rise and Prime Painting is fully insured, in Texas and in Maryland. Bring your property's insurance requirements to the walkthrough, so the certificate is checked before a job is booked.
Do you coat commercial floors as well as walls?
Commercial floor coating is quoted as commercial epoxy flooring, a separate scope with its own walkthrough and phasing, and Rise and Prime is Epoxy Certified. Walls and floors on the same building can be quoted together.
Get the property walked.
Tell us what the building is and how it gets used. Ray looks at it, writes the scope around the way the space works, and names the product before anything is signed.
Inside and outside are priced separately and quoted together: interior commercial painting and exterior commercial painting.
Get my free estimateor call Ray on (443) 743-8052