Professional Exterior Commercial Painters in Crystal Lake, IL

Exterior Commercial Painting Company in Crystal Lake, IL and Surrounding Areas

Level Best Painting paints the outside of commercial buildings across McHenry, Kane, Lake and northwest Cook counties. We paint storefronts, small office buildings, strip centers, HOA townhomes and apartment buildings. We're run from Huntley, with our office in Crystal Lake. Most of our area is a short drive, so site walks are easy to set up.

A building's exterior is the first thing customers and tenants see. Peeling trim, faded doors and rusted railings make a property look neglected, and our winters make it worse every year. We fix what the weather has opened up, then paint with products made to stand up to it.

Full-Service Exterior Commercial Painting

We start with a site walk around the whole building. We look at every side, check access and ask about parking, entrances and hours. You get a written proposal broken out by building or elevation. The work follows the same order every time. Wash, prep, prime and caulk, then two coats.

• Pressure washing and mildew treatment
• Scraping, sanding and spot-priming
• Re-caulking joints and seams
• Siding, trim, stucco and block
• Doors, railings and other metal
• Phased work so entrances stay open

Full Exterior Commercial Painting

A full exterior job covers the walls, trim, soffits, fascia, doors and metal. We wash the building and let it dry, scrape and sand failing paint, spot-prime bare areas and re-caulk open joints. Then we put on two coats of exterior paint chosen for the surface.

We only paint when the surface temperature, the overnight low and the humidity are right. If the forecast turns, we move the day and tell you why. Rushing paint onto a cold or damp wall is how a commercial exterior ends up peeling two winters later.

Commercial & Multifamily Building Painting

Apartment buildings, condos and HOA townhomes need the work spread out so residents can still come and go. We phase it by building or by side, post notices where you want them and keep walkways and parking open as much as we can.

For HOAs, we match the approved color scheme and keep the formulas on file so the buildings painted next year match the ones painted this year. Board members get a written proposal they can review at a meeting, broken out so they can see what each building costs.

Stucco, Block & Masonry

A lot of commercial buildings here are stucco, painted block or brick, often mixed with siding or metal panels. Each one needs its own prep. Stucco and block get cleaned, cracks get filled with a patch made for masonry and the surface gets a primer that bonds to it.

Masonry coatings need to let moisture out of the wall. If they trap it, winter pushes the paint off in sheets. We use paints made for masonry and stucco, and we'll tell you at the site walk if cracks or loose mortar need a mason before we paint.

Storefronts, Doors & Metal

Storefronts, entry doors and sign areas get looked at every day. We paint them after hours when we can, so your entrance stays open during business. Brand colors get matched from a swatch, a color code or an old can. If a door has to be wet for a few hours, we'll set it up so customers can use another entrance.

Metal railings, steel doors, bollards and handrails rust if they're not prepped right. We clean them, remove loose rust, prime with a rust-inhibiting primer and finish with a coating made for metal. Some of those products have a stronger smell, so we schedule them when the building is quiet.

Protecting Your Property, Parking & People

Commercial exteriors have people walking past all day. We set up cones and signs around the work, keep entrances clear and plan ladder and lift locations so they don't block doors or fire lanes. If part of the parking lot needs to close, we'll tell you ahead of time.

We cover landscaping, walkways and anything near the work. If we need to spray, we only do it when the wind allows and we mask off nearby windows, signs and cars. The site gets cleaned up at the end of every day.

Scheduling Around the Illinois Season

Exterior paint needs warm, dry weather to cure. In northern Illinois that means about May to early October. Every painter in the area is working that same window, so the summer calendar fills up by spring. Fall jobs also run into shorter days and colder nights, so the earlier the better.

For property managers and HOA boards, the smart plan is to budget in winter. Get your proposal in January or February, get board approval and lock in dates by March. Interior work can fill in the rest of the year, so it often makes sense to split a bigger project that way.

How a Commercial Job Works

1. 1

   Free Estimate

   We come out, look at the job with you, and you get a written, itemized price. No pressure.

2. 2

   Color Selection & Schedule

   Pick your colors. We can help if you want it. Then we set a start date and tell you who's coming.

3. 3

   Prep, Paint & Clean-Up

   Our crew covers your floors, furniture and landscaping, does the prep right, puts on two coats, and cleans up every day.

4. 4

   Final Walk-Through

   We walk the job with you before we call it done. If something isn't right, we fix it.

Why Choose Level Best Painting

We plan exteriors around your tenants and customers. You get a site walk, a written proposal by building or elevation and a schedule we work to. If weather moves a day, you hear it from us before anyone else does. The proposal lists the prep and products for each part of the building.

Our crews keep the site safe and clean. We cover landscaping and walkways, keep entrances clear and clean up every day. At the end, we walk the building with you or your property manager and finish the punch list before we call it done.

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