USP Coatings sprays and coats the outside of commercial buildings on site — cladding, curtain walling, roofs, shop fronts and industrial units. UK-wide from a Bradford base, with your building still open.
Everything procurement asks for, in writing, before we get on site.
USP Coatings carries £10 million public liability insurance and guarantees the coating system for up to 20 years. Risk assessments and method statements are issued for approval before work starts, without being asked.
CHASHealth and safety pre-qualification
CSCSCarded operatives on every site
IPAFPowered access, MEWPs
PASMAMobile access towers
FIRASPassive fire protection installation
CITBRegistered training and skillsBuildings we’ve worked on
Every service below has its own page with the detail, the costs and project examples. Start where your building’s problem is.
Profiled metal, composite and fibre cement cladding recoated where it stands, with the building still trading. Our largest service.
Aluminium curtain walling and façade framing resprayed on site, inside and out, with no removal and no replacement glazing.
Industrial roof coating for metal roof sheets — cleaned, treated and recoated in place, extending the roof’s life without a strip and replace.
The rust that starts at the cut edges and laps of metal cladding sheets, ground back, spot primed and sealed.
External painting and coating for offices, retail parks and mixed commercial estates, from a single unit to a whole site.
Shop fronts, fascias, signage frames and entrance surrounds resprayed to brand colours, usually outside trading hours.
Large-area warehouse and distribution envelopes, inside and out, sprayed around live operations and shift patterns.
Factory and industrial unit exteriors, plus structural steelwork, canopies and pillars, sprayed while production continues.
We also spray: on-site spraying · office window spraying · staircases, handrails, roller shutters and structural steelwork, usually on the same visit.
Cladding fades, chalks and streaks. Roller shutters and window frames rust. A building that looked new when it was built starts telling prospective tenants something its owner would rather it did not.
If the panels are structurally sound and only the finish has failed, spraying restores the building for a fraction of replacement. If they are not, we will say so at the survey.
Most of our work comes out of planned maintenance and refurbishment budgets, triggered by a tired exterior, tenant or brand-image concerns, or façade materials reaching the end of their life where replacement is too costly.
| Recoating it | Replacing the envelope | |
|---|---|---|
| The spend | A maintenance one | A capital project |
| Cost | £15,000 to £100,000 for a typical project | £150 to £300+ per square metre |
| Programme | Hours rather than weeks per elevation | Months of work |
| The building | Keeps trading | Elevations closed off |
Disruption is the first objection we hear, and it is a fair one. Buildings that stay open are what this company is built around.
We run night shifts, weekend work and phased closures, so an elevation, a loading bay or a shop front is out of use for hours rather than weeks. Our office runs Monday to Friday, but the spraying crews work evenings and weekends whenever a building has to stay open in the working day. Work zones are sheeted, coatings are low odour, and access, permits and delivery routes are agreed with your facilities team before anyone arrives.
Where a programme has to be short, we put more sprayers on it rather than ask for more time. At CarShop in Wolverhampton the site stayed live throughout, with contractors in and out of the buildings all day — twelve weeks allowed, delivered in six.
Nothing is removed and nothing is replaced. The building keeps trading, the tenants keep working, and the only thing that changes is the outside of it.
Every project below is published on our site in full, with the specification and the processes used.
More in our case studies, including Edwards Limited, McCorquodale and History & Heraldry.
Five steps. The first three cost nothing.
We work for facilities managers, building owners, asset and estate managers, main contractors and procurement leads — the people responsible for a building’s exterior rather than the people behind it.
Typical projects run £15,000 to £100,000 and cover industrial units, warehouses, distribution centres, offices, retail parks, showrooms, hotels, schools and care facilities. Multi-site estates are phased and priced as one programme.
We do not do domestic house painting, interior decorating or small private jobs. If that is what you need, we are the wrong contractor and we will say so on the phone.
Yes, and most of our work is. Night shifts, weekend work and phased closures keep the building trading throughout.
It comes from the survey. Commercial projects typically run £15,000 to £100,000, moved by area, condition, access, height and whether the work runs out of hours. The quote is fixed price.
The coating system carries a guarantee of up to 20 years.
Yes. Risk assessments and method statements are issued for approval before work starts, and the £10 million public liability certificate comes with the quote.
Yes. We are a national contractor and we go to the building — England, Scotland and Wales, from a single unit to a multi-site estate. Head office is Bradford.
We come to the building, assess what you have, and send a written report with a fixed-price quote. No charge, no obligation.
Or call 01134 364 364, or email letstalk@uspcoatings.co.uk.
