This Bradford student accommodation block required a complete redecoration across more than 40 bedrooms, along with all associated toilets, kitchens and staircases. The enquiry came directly through the website - and the project that followed was a strong test of the team's ability to plan and adapt on a live, multi-room programme.
With rooms being released progressively as cleaning was completed, the project required a phased approach: starting with a smaller team and scaling up as more space became available, without ever getting ahead of the cleaners or leaving completed rooms at risk of damage.
GME's team delivered a full redecoration of a 40-bedroom student block to a tight programme
Large-scale accommodation blocks present a specific logistical challenge: the work cannot simply begin everywhere at once. Rooms need to be vacated, cleaned and handed over before decoration can start - and that handover happens progressively rather than all at once. Getting the sequencing right is essential: too many painters in too few rooms creates congestion and quality problems; too few painters means the programme slips.
Over an eight-week project, maintaining momentum while staying properly coordinated with the cleaning team required consistent communication and a willingness to adjust the team size week by week as the programme developed.
The project began with a team of three painters - sized to stay just behind the cleaners without overlapping or waiting. As more rooms were handed over and the programme opened up, the team scaled to four and then five painters, maintaining pace without losing control of the quality or sequencing.
Bedrooms, toilets, kitchens and staircases were all worked through to a consistent specification, with the phased approach ensuring that completed areas were protected and signed off before the team moved on.
The full programme was completed within the eight-week schedule, with all 40-plus bedrooms and associated communal spaces handed back in good decorative order. The ability to scale the team intelligently in response to the programme - rather than either overstaffing from the start or scrambling at the end - was central to keeping the project on track. It is the kind of contract management that makes the difference between a project that finishes on time and one that does not.
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