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Grandview-Woodland's building boom started in 1906. A house that old needs its prep done properly before it gets new paint, and we don't skip it.

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Painters Commercial Drive Vancouver

Painting Around The Drive

Commercial Drive runs about 3.4 km from Powell Street down to the Victoria Diversion near Trout Lake. It was called Park Drive until 1911, and the north end is Little Italy, where Italian Day fills the street each June.

Around it, Grandview-Woodland stretches from Burrard Inlet to Broadway between Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street. An interurban line to New Westminster opened in 1891, homes went up fast from 1906, and the City's heritage list now counts 136 heritage buildings. Houses sit beside apartments, shops and light industry on the same streets.

We paint house exteriors, interiors and heritage homes across the neighbourhood. West of Clark we also cover Mount Pleasant, and east of Nanaimo, Hastings-Sunrise.

Kitchen with slate blue walls and floating shelves
Empty room with pale grey walls and white window trim
What We Find Here

What Grandview Houses Need From a Painter

On a house that has stood for a century, the scraping and priming matter more than the colour you pick. We spend our hours there.

  • Old paint on old wood.If your siding or trim is original, it likely carries many coats that let go in patches. We scrape back to a sound edge and prime bare wood before a topcoat.
  • Mixed streets.A house can sit next to a corner store or a low-rise. We keep ladders, drop sheets and parking tidy so the neighbours barely notice us.
  • A unit over a storefront.If you rent out a unit above a shop, we patch, prime and repaint it between tenants and keep the noisy work away from business hours.
  • Porches, railings and front doors.The parts people touch wear first. We sand, prime and repaint them so the front of the house looks cared for.
Painting Services for Commercial Drive

What We Paint in Grandview-Woodland

01

Character House Exteriors

The full prep sequence before paint: wash, scrape, sand the edges, prime bare wood, caulk the joints. Then topcoats in a dry stretch of weather.

  • Wood siding and shingles
  • Window and door trim
  • Porches and railings
  • Colour choices that suit an older house

Read more about exterior painting and heritage home painting.

Kitchen with slate blue walls and floating shelves
Living room with a charcoal accent wall and a tray ceiling
02

Interiors in Older Houses

Walls and ceilings get patched and primed, then painted. Old trim and doors get sanded so the new finish sits smooth.

  • Walls, ceilings and stairwells
  • Trim, doors and baseboards
  • Crack and patch repair first
  • Floors covered, clean-up at the end

See interior painting and repairs.

03

Suites and Rental Units

Rental suites and units on mixed blocks get a clean repaint so they can go back on the market.

  • Patch and paint between tenants
  • Neutral colours that show well
  • Doors and trim refreshed
  • Work planned around the business below

Moving out? Our move-in and move-out painting page covers it.

Empty room with pale grey walls and white window trim
Why The Drive Calls Us

Why Grandview-Woodland Hires Us

Close to Home

Our shop is at 3043 Kitchener St in East Vancouver, the same side of town as The Drive.

Small Crew, Same Faces

A local three-person crew does the work from first scrape to final coat.

Covered for Five Years

Our 5-year warranty and satisfaction guarantee come with every job.

Rated 5.0

Sixty Google reviews, all adding up to a 5.0 rating.

Pricing

How Commercial Drive Jobs Are Priced

We price an exterior by walking around it. The amount of scraping, the bare wood and the height of the walls set the number more than the square footage does. The visit and the written quote are free.

Getting Here

Getting to The Drive

We are at 3043 Kitchener St in East Vancouver. Grandview-Woodland runs from Clark Drive to Nanaimo Street, and Commercial-Broadway station, where the Expo and Millennium Lines meet, marks its southern edge.

Next door we paint Mount Pleasant and Hastings-Sunrise.

Picasshome Painting - Painters Vancouver

3043 Kitchener St, Vancouver, BC V5K 3E8

(778) 960-9619

Local Area

About Grandview-Woodland and The Drive

Commercial-Broadway began as two stations, Broadway in 1985 and Commercial Drive in 2002, and they were joined in 2009. The City lists 14 parks in Grandview-Woodland, including Grandview Park at 1255 Commercial Dr, Victoria Park, McSpadden Park, Pandora Park and Templeton Park. Trout Lake, in John Hendry Park, sits near the south end of the Drive and was given to the Park Board in 1926.

Nearby areas we also serve: Mount Pleasant, Hastings-Sunrise, East Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you paint older wood houses off Commercial Drive? +
Yes. Most of our time on an old wood exterior goes into scraping, sanding and priming, because that is what makes the paint last.
How far into Grandview-Woodland do you go? +
The whole neighbourhood, from Burrard Inlet down to Broadway and from Clark Drive over to Nanaimo Street.
Can you repaint a suite above a shop? +
Yes. We patch, prime and repaint units above storefronts and plan the noisy work around the business below.
When is the best time to paint an exterior here? +
In a dry stretch. Wood has to be dry to take primer, so we book outside work around the weather.
Do you help with colours for an older house? +
Yes. Ask for colour help when we come to quote.
How is an exterior job priced? +
After a walk-around. Prep, bare wood and wall height drive the number. The quote is free.
Will you protect the garden and the porch? +
Yes. We cover planting, porches and walkways before scraping, and clean up when the job is done.
Do you also work near Trout Lake and Hastings-Sunrise? +
Yes. The south end of the Drive near Trout Lake is in our area, and so is Hastings-Sunrise. See all the areas we serve.
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Ready to Book a Free Quote?

Send us a photo of the house or the room. We will come by, look at the prep, and put a free written quote in your hands.

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Picasshome Painting - Painters Vancouver  |  3043 Kitchener St, Vancouver, BC V5K 3E8  |  (778) 960-9619  |  Serving all of The Drive area
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