McPhersonCoatings

For architects, designers & acoustic consultants

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. Sample boards made in the room, specification support from concept to tender, and a documentation set the superintendent can close out without chasing anyone.

Pigmented polished plaster, boardroom · Siemens fit-out. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Pigmented polished plaster, boardroom · Siemens fit-out. Photography: McPherson Coatings
What you get

Four things a specifier can hold us to

01

Sample boards in the room

A2 minimum, in the actual light, two or three variants, left up for a day. Nobody signs off a burnished finish from a chip or a render.

02

Specification support

A NATSPEC-format worksection, the detail set in CAD and Revit, data sheets, build-ups, NRC and αw tables with the ISO 11654 class, and fire certificates. Buildability checked before tender, not after.

03

Colour to the schedule

Acosorb and lime plasters are pigmented to NCS, RAL or a physical reference. A panel supplier's stock colours are not a constraint we work to.

04

Built by the people you met

35+ tradespeople, directly employed. The supervisor at the quote is the supervisor on site. Nothing is subcontracted out of sight.

Finishes library

Finishes library Phase 2 — full swatch library

Request boards →

A working set of the systems we are most often asked to specify. Every one of these can be matched to a reference; the swatch shows the character of the material, not the limit of its colour.

Polished plaster · burnished · 140 William St
Polished plaster · burnished · 140 William St. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Polished plaster · matte · 140 William St
Polished plaster · matte · 140 William St. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Pigmented plaster · grey · Siemens
Pigmented plaster · grey · Siemens. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Polished plaster · warm white · Vantage Bloomdale
Polished plaster · warm white · Vantage Bloomdale. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Acoustic spray · white · Meta, 51 Flinders Lane
Acoustic spray · white · Meta, 51 Flinders Lane. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Acosorb DC3 · Terracotta
Acosorb DC3 · Terracotta. Photography: Acosorb International
Acosorb DC2 1.0 · Black
Acosorb DC2 1.0 · Black. Photography: Acosorb International
Acosorb DC3 · matched to F&B No.70
Acosorb DC3 · matched to F&B No.70. Photography: Acosorb International
Working together

What we hand over at each stage

01

Concept

Sample boards in two or three directions. Indicative rates per m². A buildability read on the substrates you are drawing over.

02

Developed design

Product and safety data sheets. NRC and αw by thickness. Fire test certificates. Set-out advice for breaks, bulkheads and junctions.

03

Tender

Clause wording for the schedule. Fixed price against the documents. Programme, access method and exclusions in writing.

04

Construction

On-site mock-up at full size, in the room's light, signed before a drum is opened. ITP hold points and progress photographs.

05

Handover

Warranty documents, maintenance and cleaning schedule, colour formula and batch record for every finish applied.

Acosorb, in three figures

What an acoustic consultant checks first.

All three are certificated, and all three certificates are in the document set below.

100%Recycled cellulose

The whole range is made from 100% recycled cellulose fibre — not part-recycled, and not a recycled option sitting alongside a virgin one. Every standard colour, Oman Grey included.

CIUR declaration · confirmed by TZÚS Prague
RPV 9Responsible Products Value 9

The Green Building Council of Australia assigns Acosorb products a Responsible Products Value of 9 — the figure a Green Star project claims against.

Green Star · the GBCA assigns the value
Group 1The highest fire group available

Group 1 to AS 5637.1, so it is accepted on exit paths and in fire-isolated stairs where most linings are not.

AWTA test 25-004810 · 14 Nov 2025 · sprayed Acospray systems

Documents

Everything a specification needs, in one place.

Technical data, test certificates and clause templates — all of it open, no form. Including the detail set in CAD and Revit and the NATSPEC-format worksection. If something you need is not here, ask: most of it exists and simply has not been published yet.

Keep the set current

Test reports get superseded. We will tell you when yours has.

The library above is open — take what you need, no form. This is for the other half of the problem: a data sheet you downloaded in March and specified in August may not be the current one. Leave your details and we will email you when a figure or a certificate in that set changes. It also releases the capability statement and the warranty template.

McPherson Painting Pty Ltd (trading as McPherson Coatings, ABN 74 642 311 457) collects your name, email and the optional fields above to send you these documents and to notify you when a test report is superseded. Submissions go to office@mcphersonpainting.com.au and a spreadsheet held by us. We do not sell or share them, and you can ask us for a copy or ask us to delete them at any time. Full detail on the privacy page.

Commercial pack

The capability statement and the warranty documents release with the form above.

Releases on completing the form

Open · no form · current as at September 2026

27 Victoria Parade · breakout. Photography: McPherson Coatings
27 Victoria Parade · breakout. Photography: McPherson Coatings
Online sessions

Thirty minutes on Teams, screen to screen.

A working session for practices on seamless acoustic systems and architectural plaster: what each can and cannot do, how thickness drives absorption, how colour is matched, and where the set-out has to be decided at design stage. We will walk your ceiling plan or finishes schedule on screen and mark up what is buildable as we go. No sales deck.

Book a time that suits the studio and we will send a Teams link. If sample boards would help the conversation, tell us which finishes and they go in the post before the call, so the boards are on your desk while we are talking about them.

The one-hour studio session is live — see the CPD page. Formal accreditation is being sought and is not yet in place. Phase 2: a Journal of built work for practices to reference.

Start a project

Send us the drawings.

If there is a finishes schedule, an acoustic report, a scope of works or a defect list, send that too. We price from documents. Most enquiries get a written response within two business days, and a site visit inside the week.