Commercial Painting & Drywall Subcontractor — NY, NJ, PA, CT
MetroBuilding Services bids and delivers painting and drywall trade packages for general contractors across the tri-state metro. We read the specification, document the scope, price what is actually on the drawings — and run the work to that same document after award.
- Retail remodel
- National retail rollout
- Medical and diagnostic fit-out
- Commercial interiors
Trade packages bid for general contractors across the tri-state metro. Client and project details are held in confidence. Trade and supplier references are issued on request.
Most of what goes wrong on a paint package is written, not drawn
Four things we do on every bid. They are the reason a general contractor should want us on the list.
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We read the specification, not just the drawings
Division 09 governs coats, dry film thickness, prep standard and warranty. A drawing shows where the paint goes. The spec decides what it costs.
- 02
We document the scope before we price it
Every bid ships with a written scope, stated assumptions and unit prices, so additions and deletions are priced before they happen rather than argued about after the fact.
- 03
We flag conflicts before bid, not after award
Drawings contradict each other. We find it, name the sheet and keynote, and price a stated interpretation. On a recent retail store bid the wall panel line moved from 4'-0" to 6'-0" AFF in a pre-bid addendum. Carrying the drawn height would have priced two feet of wall that the panel now covers.
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We price prep honestly
Existing substrate condition is where paint jobs lose money. We state the prep basis we carried and quote the alternative, so nobody finds the difference at the first progress meeting.
A bid is a promise about how the work will run
What a general contractor is buying after award: supervision, a finish that holds up to a punch walk, and a closeout that doesn’t drag.
- 01
One person accountable for the package
Every package has a named point of contact from bid through closeout. Submittals, RFIs, change pricing and punch go through the same person, so nothing is lost between the estimate and the field.
- 02
Crews placed against the schedule
Labour is placed and sized against the construction schedule for that job. Occupied stores, phased turnovers and night or weekend work are priced and planned at bid, not improvised after award.
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Prep is the job
Most paint failures are prep failures. Patches spot-primed, frames and trim caulked, sanding between coats, degreasing at back-of-house and kitchen walls, dust control in occupied space. Coats are carried to the dry film thickness the specification calls for, not to a count.
- 04
Mockups approved before production
Brush-outs, sheen and finish-level mockups are submitted and approved before production coating begins. Gypsum finish level is verified in raking light before the first finish coat, because a Level 5 argument after the fact is expensive for everyone.
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Closeout that doesn’t drag
Daily cleanup and protection of adjacent finishes are carried in the scope. At completion: punch walked with the superintendent, touch-up, attic stock delivered, warranty and product data submitted.
Two trades, managed as one package
Commercial painting CSI 09 90 00
- Interior and exterior
- CMU and block filler systems
- Gypsum board
- Graphic bands and striping
- Hollow metal doors and frames
- Structural steel touch-up
- Dry fall on exposed deck and structure
- High-performance and specialty coatings
Drywall & wall finishes CSI 09 20 00
- Hanging and taping
- Level 4 and Level 5 finishes
- Skim coat
- Patch and repair
- Corner guard and wall protection coordination
- Substrate prep for specialty finishes
Project types
- Retail build-outs and remodels
- National retail rollouts
- Medical and lab fit-outs
- Restaurant
- Office and commercial interiors
- Occupied-store and phased work
Four states, one crew structure
MetroBuilding supervises the package, supplies the materials and places the labour with screened crews sized to each project. That structure is what allows a multi-store programme to run consistently across state lines: same submittals, same scope document, same finish standard, same closeout, whoever is holding the roller.
Bidding a painting or drywall package? Send the drawings.
Drawings, specification and addenda. You get back a lump sum with unit prices, written clarifications and exclusions, and addenda acknowledged by number.