The Top UK Cladding Spraying Contractors

Sprayzone are a known name in showroom-grade on-site spraying. Their public project list includes a Lamborghini Manchester showroom respray, Selwood pumps, Thames House London and Trend Controls Horsham, which is the kind of mixed bag (luxury automotive, industrial OEM, commercial HQ) that takes years to build.

Their core skill is delivering a paint-shop standard finish in a building that is already built and often still occupied. That is harder than it sounds. Containment, dust control, overspray management and cure times all need a different process to spraying a panel in a workshop.

Worth a conversation if your project sits between standard cladding spraying and showroom-level interior spraying, particularly around premium automotive and corporate HQ briefs.

Pure-play cladding contractors are useful when the brief is just the cladding. Cladspray Solutions sit in that camp: they do not run flooring, scaffold or general painting alongside, which removes the temptation to mis-sell a wider package.

On-site spraying of plastisol-coated steel is where the volume of UK cladding work sits. A typical 1980s or 1990s industrial estate has acres of faded plastisol that can be sprayed back to specification for a fraction of the cost of replacement.

Sensible shortlist entry where cladding respray is a stand-alone procurement and the buyer wants a contractor whose entire reputation rests on that one trade.

Vanda Coatings are worth knowing about when the substrate is anything other than a standard plastisol panel. Their public work includes Terne-coated steel at Cambridge Science Park, which is exactly the kind of architectural metal that most cladding sprayers will not touch.

That substrate breadth comes with the discipline that follows from working on signed-off architectural projects: surveying, sampling, manufacturer sign-off and a tighter snagging culture than the average industrial respray.

Worth approaching for university, science park, heritage and high-spec commercial briefs where the panel is not a 1990s coil-coated steel and an off-the-shelf coatings spec will not pass the architect.

Tesco, Coca-Cola, Rolls Royce and Subway all appear on the CJ Paint Spraying public client list. That is a heavyweight set of accounts to be holding as an on-site spraying contractor: those clients run the most disciplined contractor approval processes in UK industry.

Their work runs wider than cladding alone, taking in structural steel, racking and machinery spraying. That is helpful where a single shutdown window has to absorb a refurb of the building envelope plus the kit inside it.

Solid pick if the procurement sits inside a multinational client framework where vendor approval, RAMS quality and audit trail matter as much as the spray finish itself.

USP Coatings reference a Fiat dealership respray on their public site, which puts them in the same automotive showroom segment as a handful of the other names on this list. Brand-controlled colour palettes and signed-off finish standards are part of the brief on that work.

On the industrial side they do the standard cladding respray and on-site coatings work, with the same airless and HVLP kit list as the rest of the field.

Worth a conversation for automotive dealership programmes and smaller industrial respray jobs where a regional, mid-sized contractor is preferred to one of the larger national names.

ACS Coatings round out the list with a slightly broader on-site coatings remit than pure cladding sprayers. Structural steel coatings and intumescent fire protection sit alongside the cladding respray work.

Useful where the building envelope job has to be done at the same time as a structural fire-protection upgrade or a steel refurbishment, since the same access kit and the same trades can cover both scopes.

Worth shortlisting for industrial estates where the brief covers more than just the cladding and the buyer wants one contractor co-ordinating a wider envelope-and-structure refurbishment.