Melbourne · Established 2015
Commercial painting, architectural finishes & acoustic systems.
The last trade on site, and the first thing anyone sees. We finish commercial buildings across Victoria — for the builders, designers and asset managers who have to live with the result.
27 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy · Tenancy fit-out · Photography: McPherson Coatings
Master Painters Association VictoriaMemberWho we work for
Most of our work arrives as a drawing, a schedule or a scope.
We price from documents and we build to them. Head contractors on program. Designers who have specified a particular finish and need it delivered as specified. Facility and owners corporation managers with buildings in use. Acoustic consultants who need a number met rather than approximated.
Our own people on our own equipment. We do not subcontract the trowel work or the spray work.
If the schedule names a product, that is the product that goes on. If we think it is wrong for the substrate, we say so before we price it.
Live tenancies, operating hospitals, trading retail. After-hours and staged works are routine, not an exception we charge for discovering.
SWMS, ITPs, progress photographs and batch records as standard. Handover includes the colour and batch record for future touch-ups.
What we are called in for
All services →Architectural Finishes
Venetian plaster, Marmorino, polished plaster, microcement and limewash — built up in coats and burnished by hand.
More →Acosorb Acoustics
Seamless acoustic spray and plaster. Sole Australian licence. NRC up to 0.95 at 35 mm.
More →Commercial Painting
Base build, fit-out, repaint and scheduled maintenance across offices, retail, health and education.
More →Protective Coatings
Corrosion, chemical and fire-protective systems to steel, plant and structure. AS 2311 compliant.
More →Electrostatic Spray
Metal refinished in place — balustrades, partitions, shutters, kitchen equipment.
More →Remedial & Restoration
Concrete repair, lead abatement, render repair, rising damp and heritage work.
More →Four things we do that a painting contractor does not.
Most of what separates one finishing contractor from another is invisible on a quote. These four are not — they are equipment, a licence and a test, and any of them can be checked before you appoint us.
The only Acosorb applicator in Australia
Seamless acoustic spray and plaster to NRC 0.95 at 35 mm, made in the colour on your schedule. 100% recycled cellulose, Group 1 to AS 5637.1, and a GBCA Responsible Products Value of 9. Sole Australian licence, applicators trained and certified in the Netherlands.
Metal refinished where it stands
Electrostatic spray on a Wagner three-in-one rig charges the paint so it wraps the back and edges of the work. Balustrades, partitions and shutters are refinished in place rather than removed, sprayed off site and reinstated.
Fire-protective coatings, recorded
A Graco King 60:1 configured specifically for intumescent work, with wet and dry film thickness recorded against the fire assessment — so the certifier gets numbers, not an assurance.
The substrate tested before we price
On a repaint we take our own adhesion and moisture readings rather than assuming what is on the wall. A recoat that lifts in eighteen months costs everyone more than the fortnight spent testing.
A ceiling can be any colour you specify.
Acosorb is pigmented to the schedule, not picked from a supplier's four. Terracotta over a vaulted soffit, ILA Grey across an open floor plate, or a match to a Farrow & Ball reference — the acoustic performance does not change with the colour.
Specify it. We will build it as drawn.
A finishes schedule is a set of promises made on the designer's behalf. We are the trade that keeps them — with sample boards made on site, specification support from concept to tender, and a documentation set the superintendent can close out without chasing.
A2 minimum, in the actual light, two or three variants, left up for a day. Nobody signs off a burnished finish from a chip.
A NATSPEC-format worksection, the detail set in CAD and Revit, product data, build-ups, NRC and αw tables by thickness, and fire certificates. We check buildability before it goes to tender, not after.
Acosorb and lime plasters are pigmented to NCS, RAL or a physical reference. The four colours a panel supplier stocks are not a constraint we work to.
Maintenance schedule, warranty documents, colour and batch record at handover. A touch-up in three years still matches.
Acosorb acoustics
A ceiling that absorbs the room and shows nothing.
Acosorb is sprayed straight onto the substrate. No tiles, no grid, no perimeter trim, no visible joint anywhere in the surface. It follows curves, bulkheads and soffits, and it is made to the colour on your schedule rather than the four the panel supplier stocks.
McPherson Coatings holds the sole Australian licence. If Acosorb is on the finishes schedule, we are the applicator.
NRC 0.95
Group 1
Recent work
All projects →
140 William Street
Polished plaster feature walls, tenancy repaint and common-area finishes across a commercial tower, worked around a trading building.
Salesforce, 55 Collins Street
Two levels of tenancy fit-out finishes for Salesforce — timber veneer and joinery, timber staining and clear finishing, and wall finishes throughout, staged around a live building.
27 Victoria Parade
Tenancy finishes and protective coatings across a multi-level refurbishment — exposed concrete, dark ceilings, timber.
Meta, 51 Flinders Lane
Seamless acoustic spray to exposed soffits, ductwork and curved bulkheads across the Meta fit-out — a full floor plate, sprayed in place.
How a job actually runs
Site assessment
We attend site, take our own measurements and photograph existing conditions before we price. Where the substrate is the risk — and on repaints and remedial work it usually is — we say so at this stage, not at the variation.
Scope and fixed price
Every quote names the products and systems, the number of coats, the coverage rates, the access method, the programme and what is excluded. Two business days for most enquiries.
Samples and sign-off
For architectural finishes and acoustic work we make sample boards on site, in the light the finish will actually be seen in, and get them signed before a drum is opened. Nobody signs off a Venetian plaster from a photograph.
Application
Our own employees, our own equipment, our own supervisor. SWMS and inductions before we start. Daily site clean. ITP hold points and progress photographs where the head contract asks for them.
Handover
Defect walk with the builder and the superintendent. Maintenance and cleaning schedule for every finish applied. Warranty documentation, and the colour and batch record so a touch-up in three years still matches.
“McPherson Painting exceeded our expectations time and time again over the course of this project.”
Tom MacStrachan · Contract Administrator
Figurehead Constructions
