Phase-finishing contractors · Grangeholm & the development plain · since 2009
We paint behind the tapers, ahead of the walkthrough.
Aster & Iron is the finishing phase on a build schedule: colour consistent across forty units, super-matte walls that shrug off buyer walk-throughs, and a punch list that closes before your PDI, not after your closing date. One contract per phase, one superintendent’s number that answers.
Phase contracts from $7.20 per metre · PDI touch-up crews booked ten days out · colour batch-matched across the run · phases@asteriron.example
Services
The three phases we take
Frame-out colour
The first finish: primer systems specified to the board type, ceilings sprayed flat and back-rolled, walls in the builder super-matte your buyers will scuff-test with a sleeve. Whole floors per week, colour by batch number, so unit forty matches unit one under every lighting angle the showhome tour uses.
Trim & doors phase
Trim sprayed in the sheen your design centre specced — satin rails, semigloss doors — then hung, aligned and tipped by hand where the gun cannot be trusted. Edge-rolled backs, labelled hardware, no orange peel anywhere a buyer runs a thumb. The flats get the gun; the edges get the truth.
PDI & touch-up crews
The unglamorous phase that sells all the others: after the trades, before the buyer — every wall raked with a lamp, every scuff and swipe touched from the labelled batch tins, every unit walked twice and signed off on a card your superintendent keeps in the site file.
Rates
The phase sheet
Metre rates for the phases above; the run decides the total, and the total is fixed at contract. Batch-matched colour and the PDI crew’s booking are not extras — they are lines, so the closing date is a number, not a hope.
Prime & first finish, per metre$7.20
Board primer, flat spray, back-rolled
Builder super-matte, per metre$10.80
Two coats, batch-matched across the run
Trim spray, per linear metre$6.40
Satin or semigloss, hung and tipped
Ceiling flat, per metre$5.90
Sprayed and back-rolled, zero sheen
Garage & common walls$4.10
Contract-grade eggshell, one shift
PDI touch-up crew, per day$940
Two painters, batch tins, lamp walk
Colour consult, design centreincluded
Palette card per elevation, buyer-safe
Punch-list closureincluded
Signed card per unit, photographed
How it goes
From frame to closing gift
The sequence is the schedule — we hold the dates the way we hold the colour.
Week 0
Spec & batch
Board types read, primer systems matched, and the colour run batched in one order — batch numbers on the tin, on the spec, and on the sign-off card your super keeps.
Frame-out
First finish
Ceilings flat, walls primed and first-coated floor by floor behind the tapers. Extraction at every station, because the units sell with the air as much as with the walls.
Trim phase
Spray & hang
Doors and trim sprayed, hung on their own hardware, and tipped by hand at every edge. The gun does the flats; the brush does the truth — buyers run thumbs along edges.
Pre-PDI
The lamp walk
Every unit raked with work lamps, scuffs touched from batch tins, and the punch list closed on a card — before your buyer walks it, not after your closing moves.
The wall
Runs we finished on schedule
Word of mouth
Three supers, three closings
Phase two of Harvest Mews: forty units, one colour, zero variation under three different lighting angles. The design centre took the credit. I let them.
Their PDI crew found scuffs I had walked past twice. The buyers walked a finished unit on the first date we ever promised anyone, and my punch list closed the same week.
The batch-tin system is the whole trick — touch-ups come out of the same paint the wall was born in. Two years on, the common halls still look like closing day.
The closing-date clause
The finish date is on the contract with the touch-up crew already booked behind it. If our phase runs long and moves your PDI, the touch-up crew is ours to pay for — the clause has been exercised twice in sixteen years, and both supers got the call before their buyers did.
Fair questions
Do you work to our spec or yours?
Yours, translated: we read the board type and the design-centre sheen schedule and write the primer system underneath it. If your spec has a hole — vinyl over fresh compound, say — we flag it at week zero, when it costs a line item, not a delay.
How do you keep colour consistent across a run?
One batch order per colour per run, batch numbers on every tin, and touch-ups only ever from the batch tin labelled for that unit. Colour-matching across batches is a renovation skill — forty units standing side by side get one birth batch, full stop.
Can you keep up with a fast track?
That is the trade: floor-by-floor first finishing behind the tapers, trim crews that start before the floors are down, and a PDI crew booked ten days out from your walkthrough whether or not anyone believes the schedule.
What is builder super-matte, really?
A scrubbable flat formulated for exactly this abuse: buyer sleeves, furniture deliveries, toddlers in year one. It holds the matte look the sales brochure promised while wiping down like an eggshell — the spec we put in every run we finish.
Who fixes the trades’ damage?
We photograph it, price it off the sheet, and fix it — in that order, with the invoice going to whoever dented it. The PDI crew carries batch tins precisely so the wall never knows the difference.
Bring us the schedule.
Send the phase dates and the unit count. The spec comes back inside a week with the primer system named, the batch plan written, and the touch-up crew already pencilled ten days behind the last coat. phases@asteriron.example