VANCOUVER BC’S PREMIER RESIDENTIAL PAINTING COMPANY
VANCOUVER BC’S PREMIER RESIDENTIAL PAINTING COMPANY
We provide new construction painting in Vancouver for custom homes, condo buildings, and commercial tenant improvements, working directly with general contractors using our own employee painters and flexible scheduling to keep projects on time.
Deadlines drive every new construction schedule, and painting is usually one of the last trades standing between a project and its handover date. Whether we’re finishing a custom home, a multi-unit condo building, or a commercial tenant improvement, we know a missed painting deadline holds up flooring crews, final inspections, and closing dates behind us. That’s why we build our crews and our scheduling around your project timeline rather than asking you to build yours around ours. We show up when the site is ready for us, bring enough painters to match the scope, and keep moving so the trades behind us aren’t waiting.
Our new construction work covers a range of project types across Metro Vancouver, and each one comes with its own sequencing and finish requirements.
New construction painting only works if it’s sequenced correctly against the trades around it, and we treat that coordination as part of the job, not an afterthought.
Before we start, we confirm with you where painting fits in the schedule: after drywall finishing and priming is complete, and before flooring, final electrical cover plates, and fixture installation go in. We ask for areas free of other trades while we’re working them, since overspray and accidental contact from a trade working overhead cost everyone time. When your schedule shifts, and on a construction site it usually does, we adjust our crew size and sequencing to hold our slot rather than letting a delay on our end cascade into the trades behind us.
We also keep communication direct. You get a single point of contact who knows the project, not a rotating crew you have to re-brief every visit. That consistency matters most on multi-phase builds, where the person managing week one needs to be the same person managing week six.
New construction surfaces (fresh drywall, new wood trim, stucco, fibre cement siding, etc.) all need to be treated differently than a repaint, and our specifications reflect that.
We treat every new construction project as high-visibility work. It’s the first impression a buyer, tenant, or owner gets of the finished space, so the paint job has to hold up to close inspection, not just look fine from across the room.
At Dunbar Painting®, we staff every job with our own employees, never subcontractors. For a general contractor managing a new construction site, that difference shows up in the details that matter: consistent crews who already know our standards and our process, direct accountability if something needs to be redone, and scheduling flexibility that doesn’t depend on coordinating with a third party’s separate booking. When you’re managing dozens of moving pieces on a build, having one less layer between you and the people holding the brush is worth something.
From custom homes to condo buildings and commercial tenant improvements, our completed projects show the range of new construction work we take on across Metro Vancouver. Browse the gallery below for examples, or view our entire showcase for more.
Yes. New construction and infill development painting is one of our core services, and we work directly with general contractors and builders across Metro Vancouver, from initial scheduling through final touch-up.
We match primer, sealer, and topcoat to the substrate, using drywall primer-sealer on new gypsum board and bonding primer on trim and millwork, with low-VOC and zero-VOC coatings as our standard for new builds.
Yes. We confirm sequencing with you before we start, work areas free of other trades while we’re in them, and adjust crew size when your schedule shifts so our slot in the project holds.
No. Every painter we send to your site is our own employee, which means consistent crews and direct accountability for the work.
We use masonry-appropriate primers on stucco, fibre cement, and other new exterior surfaces, matched to the substrate rather than treated the same as interior drywall.
Both. We paint custom homes and infill builds as well as condo and apartment buildings, scheduling around strata timelines and the other trades working the same floors.
As early as your trade schedule allows. Confirming our slot early, even before drywall is complete, lets us plan crew size around your timeline rather than reacting to it once the site is ready.
