TENANT BUILDOUT
INTERIOR FIT-OUTS
Commercial Tenant Build-Outs
Space planning, heavy metal stud framing, drywall, acoustic ceiling grids, and designer commercial flooring.
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COMMERCIAL GENERAL CONTRACTOR • DIV 01 / 02
FL CGC1517295 • CCC1329271
Commercial Painting in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Commercial painting in Florida has to handle UV, salt air, traffic, and tenants who can't be inconvenienced. We paint commercial properties in Fort Lauderdale with prep and product matched to the conditions.
FBC & ADA Standards
Zero Violations
Direct Qualifier CGC
CGC1517295 • CCC1329271
100% In-House Supervision
Zero Subcontracting Gaps
FL STATE LICENSED
CGC1517295 • CCC1329271
100%
In-House Crews • Zero Brokers
COMMERCIAL GENERAL CONTRACTOR • SOUTH FLORIDA
Commercial Painting That Holds Up to Florida
Commercial painting in Fort Lauderdale is where building performance and business presentation intersect — because fresh, professionally applied paint protects building surfaces and communicates that a business and its property are well-maintained. In Fort Lauderdale's competitive commercial real estate market, building appearance directly affects tenant retention, customer impressions, and property valuation. At Planet Construction FL, we apply commercial painting — interior and exterior — with the preparation discipline, product selection, and scheduling flexibility that commercial properties and occupied business environments require.
Permit Expediting & Engineering
Direct coordination with municipal building officials, registered structural engineers, and life safety reviewers for accelerated approvals.
ADA & Life Safety Compliance
Full ADA Title III accessibility upgrades, fire barrier ratings, egress calculations, and zero-liability inspection sign-offs.
Dual State Licensing
Certified General Contractor (CGC1517295) and Certified Roofing Contractor (CCC1329271) under unified commercial accountability.
Commercial Risk Reality • Liability Exposure
Cheap Commercial Paint Jobs Fail in a Year
Commercial painting often gets treated as a cost center — and the result is jobs done with bad prep, cheap product, and no project management. Within a year, the paint is fading, peeling, and chalking, and the property looks worse than it did before. Tenants notice, prospects notice, and the cycle repeats.
Mandatory Building Department Benchmark • FBC Standards
Engineered Protocol • Quality Assurance
Commercial Painting With the Prep and Product Florida Demands
We handle commercial painting in Fort Lauderdale with serious surface prep, the right primer for the substrate, and elastomeric or acrylic coatings engineered for Florida UV and humidity. Interior work is sequenced around tenants and operations. Exterior work uses scaffolding or lifts where needed and finishes that hold their color and bond for years — not months.
Fully documented for municipal building inspection file
COMMERCIAL • MULTI-TENANT • INDUSTRIAL
Commercial Painting Services We Provide
Planet Construction FL provides commercial painting services for office buildings, retail shopping centers, restaurants, warehouses, medical facilities, multi-unit residential properties, and condominium associations throughout Fort Lauderdale and Broward County. Interior commercial painting covers office and common area repaints, restaurant and retail interior finishes, epoxy floor coatings for commercial and industrial floors, concrete and masonry waterproofing paint for below-grade and wet-area applications, and specialty coatings including anti-graffiti coatings, antimicrobial coatings for healthcare environments, and fire-retardant coatings where required. Exterior commercial painting covers building facade repaints, stucco and masonry exterior waterproofing coating application, parking structure interior and exterior painting, and traffic marking — stall lines, fire lanes, directional arrows, and ADA stall designations.
TENANT BUILDOUT
ADA COMPLIANCE
ACCESSIBILITY
ADA Title III Renovations
Exterior concrete access ramps, handrails, door clearances, and turnkey ADA commercial restroom remodels.
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STRUCTURAL & MEP
TRADE COORDINATION
Commercial Framing & MEP
Turnkey management of commercial electrical panels, HVAC duct distribution, and plumbing rough-ins under single GC oversight.
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IMPACT STOREFRONTS
BUILDING ENVELOPE
Storefronts & Impact Glass
Heavy-gauge aluminum storefront framing, hurricane impact security glazing, panic push-bars, and ADA automatic doors.
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PERMIT REMEDIATION
MUNICIPAL RESOLUTION
Code Violation Remediation
Legalizing unpermitted work, clearing building department stop-work orders, and resolving expired permits with city officials.
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ARCHITECTURAL COATINGS
FACADE RESTORATION
Commercial Painting & Facades
High-build elastomeric waterproofing, airless spray coatings, and architectural stucco modernization for commercial buildings.
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Regulatory Code Standards • FBC & ADA Compliance
Interior Commercial Painting
Interior commercial painting in occupied Fort Lauderdale buildings requires a different approach than residential painting — and a different standard of preparation, product selection, and scheduling. Surface preparation in commercial buildings must address the years of accumulated surface contamination, failed paint systems, and patched repairs that commercial interiors accumulate through normal business operations. Product selection for commercial interiors prioritizes washability, scrubbability, and durability over the sheen-and-color focus that drives residential paint selection — commercial interior paints must withstand cleaning, disinfecting, and the physical wear that high-traffic commercial use produces. Scheduling commercial interior painting around business operations — often evening and weekend work, or phased work that keeps portions of the space operational — requires advance coordination with building management and tenants that Planet Construction FL manages proactively.
Licensed CGC1517295 • CCC1329271 Execution
Direct Municipal Building Department Inspections
Code Assurance Criteria
ENGINEERING PROTOCOL
Sealed Commercial Blueprints
Signed & sealed architectural, MEP, and structural engineering drawings for permit approval.
ADA TITLE III CRITERIA
FBC Chapter 11 Accessibility
1:12 ramp slope tolerances, 32-inch clear door swings, and compliant restroom grab-bar configurations.
FIRE & LIFE SAFETY
NFPA 101 Life Safety Standards
Fire-rated drywall partitions, panic exit hardware, and illuminated egress lighting paths.
THE DUAL-LICENSE DIFFERENCE
Why Hiring a Single-Source General Contractor Saves Projects
Commercial renovations intersect with electrical, mechanical, drywall, and municipal inspections. Dividing trades across brokers causes delays, finger-pointing, and inspection failures.
THE TRADITIONAL MODEL
Disjointed Subcontracting
Hiring separate framing crews, electricians, and finish painters leaves no single party accountable for schedule, safety, or final city inspection sign-offs.
Critical Risk: Multiple markups, inspection stop-work orders, and finger-pointing over punch-list defects.
★ SINGLE-SOURCE GC CONTROL
THE PLANET CONSTRUCTION STANDARD
Unified General Contractor Control
John Kraja directly manages every commercial project phase under dual state licenses (CGC1517295 & CCC1329271). In-house supervision, fast municipal turnaround, and complete trade accountability.
Guaranteed Result: One contract, dedicated site superintendents, zero middleman broker fees, and full warranty protection.
MUNICIPAL RAPIDITY
Accelerated Permit Milestones
We pull commercial master permits directly across Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, Boca Raton, and Miami-Dade. Daily inspection scheduling ensures rapid Certificate of Occupancy.
Turnkey Efficiency: Faster tenant occupancy, reduced business downtime, and full Florida Building Code certification.
Commercial Asset Managers • Property Directors
After-Hours & Weekend Scheduling
Commercial painting in occupied buildings frequently requires after-hours or weekend scheduling — particularly for interior spaces where the odor of paint products would be disruptive to daytime business operations, and for exterior work where scaffold setup and pressure washing would interfere with normal business hours. Planet Construction FL schedules commercial painting work around the operational requirements of each business — evening painting in occupied restaurants and retail spaces, weekend work in office buildings, and phased scheduling that keeps portions of the building functional throughout the project. After-hours and weekend work involves premium labor costs that we discuss transparently during the project proposal; for many commercial painting clients, the premium is well-justified by the business disruption it avoids.
Multi-Tenant Commercial Facility Support
Phased construction logistics, off-hours night shifts, tenant coordination, and rapid permit closeouts.
Detailed Commercial Bids with Trade-Itemized Material & Labor Cost Breakdown
Zero-Disruption Execution Schedules for High-Traffic Retail & Medical Facilities
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Direct Qualifier CGC1517295 • On-Site Consultations
RECENT REGIONAL PERFORMANCE • VERIFIED SITES
Documented Commercial Projects • South Florida Portfolio
Engineering-compliant tenant build-outs, ADA accessibility upgrades, and commercial facade modernizations across Broward and Palm Beach counties.
WESTON • RETAIL SHOWROOM
Weston Retail Showroom Build-Out
Custom display wall partitions, polished concrete flooring, exposed ceiling MEP painting, and architectural track lighting.
FORT LAUDERDALE • CORPORATE
Commercial ADA Restroom Modernization
Full Title III accessibility upgrade: structural grab bars, porcelain wall tiles, touchless commercial fixtures, and widened doorway.
POMPANO BEACH • COMMERCIAL PLAZA
Commercial Plaza Facade Restoration
Stucco remediation, expansion joint caulking, boom-lift airless elastomeric coating, and high-visibility tenant parapet refresh.
COMMERCIAL EXPERTISE • CLARITY FOR TENANTS & OWNERS
Frequently Asked Questions • Commercial Construction
Direct answers regarding project schedules, building permits, off-hours execution, and Florida Building Code standards.
How often should a commercial building be repainted in Fort Lauderdale?
Fort Lauderdale's UV intensity and climate shorten paint service life compared to other markets. Commercial exterior repaints with quality elastomeric coatings on properly prepared surfaces typically last 7–12 years. Interior commercial repaints in high-traffic areas — lobbies, corridors, restrooms — may be needed every 3–7 years depending on traffic volume and maintenance practices. Annual inspection of the paint system condition — checking for chalking, cracking, and peeling — identifies areas approaching the end of their service life before they create water infiltration or appearance problems.
Can you match existing paint colors for repairs and touch-ups?
Yes — we can match existing paint colors using spectrophotometry color matching for most standard paint colors. Matching paint on aged exterior surfaces is more challenging because UV fading changes the apparent color of the existing surface over time — we discuss color matching strategies, including full wall or full facade repaints, for exterior touch-up applications where the color differential between new and aged paint would be visually significant.
Are there restrictions on exterior painting in Fort Lauderdale?
Some Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods and commercial districts have architectural review requirements for exterior color changes. Shopping centers and commercial properties may have landlord approval requirements for exterior color changes. HOA and condominium associations have color-approval processes for building exterior changes. Planet Construction FL identifies applicable review requirements before any exterior commercial painting project begins.
Do commercial painting projects require permits?
Standard commercial painting — applying paint or elastomeric coating to existing surfaces — typically doesn't require a building permit. Painting that is part of a larger construction project with a permit, or painting that includes waterproofing systems with specific code compliance implications, may require permit documentation. We confirm permit requirements for each commercial painting project at the project assessment stage.
DIRECT GENERAL CONTRACTOR ACCESS
Schedule a Commercial Consultation & Site Assessment
Discuss your commercial project directly with Qualifying General Contractor John Kraja. We provide site inspections, blueprint reviews, and detailed commercial cost estimates across Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties.