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"Super efficient and clean. Very good communication and very helpful. Would definitely recommend."
Painters & decoratorsin the City of London.
We deliver fast, tidy projects for City offices and apartments—managing lift access, out-of-hours slots, and protection for shared areas.
Where we work
Neighbourhoods we cover.
- City of London
- Barbican
- Bank
- Moorgate
- St Paul’s
Postcode districts
EC1EC2EC3EC4
Based at Royal Docks, E16 — travel, parking, and ULEZ are sorted before we arrive.
5.0★
Google Rating
£700
Starting Price Per Room
£2m
Public Liability Cover
1 Year
Workmanship Guarantee
Local knowledge
Why Prime Coat London
in the City of London.
Decorating in the Square Mile is as much about logistics as finish. Prime Coat London works across EC1-EC4, from Brutalist Barbican flats and luxury apartments near Bank and Moorgate to occupied corporate floors, receptions and meeting rooms off St Paul's and Leadenhall. With no on-street loading, ULEZ and the congestion charge in force, we plan goods-lift bookings, security passes and out-of-hours slots around your facilities team. Marble lobbies, lifts and shared corridors are fully sheeted, low-VOC paints let staff return fast, and Corporation of London leasehold and listed-building constraints are respected throughout. Fully insured for commercial premises, with a one-year workmanship guarantee on every job.
- 01Set up for commercial access in the Square Mile: security passes, permits-to-work, goods-lift booking and ULEZ/congestion logistics handled with your building's security and facilities team
- 02Out-of-hours, weekend and phased occupied-floor working so dealing rooms, offices and Barbican residents barely notice we are in
- 03Low-VOC paints and meticulously tidy working, with marble lobbies, residents' lifts and shared corridors sheeted on every visit
- 04Fluent in Corporation of London and Barbican/Golden Lane estate leases, managing agents and listed/conservation constraints across EC1-EC4, with completion certificates your facilities team can file
What we do here
Our services
in the City of London.
The same six services we run across London, adapted to how the City of London is actually built — its housing stock, access rules, and quirks.
01
Interior Painting for Offices & City Apartments
A trading floor near Bank that has to be live by Monday and a single-aspect Barbican flat with board-marked concrete soffits are two very different briefs, and almost all our EC interior work happens around people. On commercial floors we hoard off live zones, sleeve workstations, monitors and cabling, and roll out finishes by section so meetings and dealing carry on next door. In the Barbican and Golden Lane flats we cut crisply against exposed concrete and the estate's original timber detailing rather than burying it under thick paint. Either way you get a phasing plan and a daily progress note to your facilities manager or porter.
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Exterior & Communal Decorating in Conservation Areas
External and communal redecoration here sits under Corporation of London leases, the Barbican and Golden Lane estate offices and, on listed blocks, listed-building consent before a brush moves. We repaint walkways, podium-level balconies, entrance halls and shared stairwells to the approved estate colour schedule, not an off-the-shelf chart, and submit our access method up front. Where Smithfield and St Paul's conservation rules and a total on-street parking ban rule out a standard scaffold, we work to tower or rope access and book it around resident and office hours so the building keeps functioning while we decorate.
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Wallpaper Removal & Resurfacing
The wallpaper we strip in the City is rarely domestic: it is usually heavy vinyl or hessian-backed covering on partition walls in older office suites above EC retail units, or layered paper in converted upper floors around Smithfield and Aldgate. These substrates range from dry-lined plasterboard to patched 1960s plaster, so we score and steam to lift the covering without tearing the skim, then fill, sand and seal back to a paintable wall. Dust is contained to the demised area, lifts and lobbies are masked on every trip, and we leave a sound surface ready for emulsion or a new specification.
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Kitchen Cabinet Spraying for City Flats
Barbican and Golden Lane kitchens are tight, original-spec and built into the flat's footprint, so ripping them out means weeks of disruption inside a managed estate; a respray gives you a new look for a fraction of the time and cost. We take off doors and drawer fronts, degrease the grease-laden builder-grade laminate, key and prime for adhesion, then apply a tough cabinet lacquer in your colour. Everything is sprayed in a masked zone or off site, refitted and adjusted, leaving a compact galley or handleless run fully usable in an occupied flat.
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MDF & Joinery Spraying
In the City the joinery that needs spraying tends to be commercial: reception desks, meeting-room media walls, breakout banquette frames and the fitted storage that lines corporate floors, plus the occasional run of built-ins in a Barbican flat. We build a sealed, extracted spray booth on the floor or work overnight, applying durable two-pack lacquers that shrug off trolleys, lanyards and constant handling in high-traffic lobbies. The result is sprayed dead-flat and recoatable, so a desk or panel run reads as factory-finished rather than brush-painted on site.
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Mould Treatment & Damp-Prone Surfaces
The mould we deal with in EC postcodes is almost always condensation-driven: warm, occupied air meeting cold concrete reveals and single-aspect window heads in Barbican rooms, or sealed, airtight apartments near Aldgate where moisture has nowhere to go. So we start with ventilation and the cold bridge, not the stain. We wash down the affected reveals and bathroom corners, apply an anti-condensation and fungicidal coating where the cold surface sits, then finish in a moisture-tolerant paint. Treating the temperature differential is what keeps it from coming back through the next winter.
View the serviceRecent work
Recent projects
nearby.
A few jobs from around the City of London — the kind of work we're quoting for in the area right now.
- 01
Weekend repaint of an occupied floor off Bank
Redecorated meeting rooms, breakout space and corridors on a tenanted floor near the Bank junction over two consecutive weekends, hoarding live zones and timing goods-lift slots so dealing desks reopened dry and odour-free each Monday.
- 02
Grade II-listed Barbican one-bed refresh
Repainted a Barbican Estate flat to the estate office's approved colour schedule, cutting cleanly against original board-marked concrete and timber rather than over it, with podium walkways and the residents' lift protected throughout.
- 03
Reception and breakout respray near Moorgate
Sprayed the reception desk joinery and media wall overnight and applied hardwearing wall finishes in a corporate suite off Moorgate, handing back a client-facing space that reopened the next morning with no booth left on site.
Pricing
Painting prices
in the City of London.
From£700per room
Every project in the City of London is quoted as a fixed, itemised price after a no-obligation site survey — so you can compare line by line, and the number doesn't change halfway through.
What every quote includes
- Out-of-hours and weekend availability
- Low-VOC options for occupied offices
- Protection for lifts, lobbies, and shared corridors
- Clear timelines and daily updates
Planning a budget?
Start with real numbers.
The £700 starting price is indicative. The pricing guide breaks costs down room by room — or get a ballpark for your project in the City of London in about two minutes with the calculator.
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London Postcodes
£2m
Public Liability
Fixed
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Every quote is fixed-price and no-obligation. Most messages get a reply within the hour — we’ll book the survey at a time that suits you.