Crate and Barrel storefront at La Cantera, San Antonio

Crate and Barrel Painting

– PROJECT REVIEW J.E. TRAVIS PAINTING, INC.

Crate and Barrel

La Cantera Showroom

A Crate and Barrel showroom at La Cantera on a compressed schedule. Every wall spotlit, every imperfection exposed, and a deadline that meant two crews working as one. 

CLIENT: 

Crate and Barrel

Project Size:

$104K

Timeline:

Roughly 6 weeks

General Contractor:

structural steel framing the showroom windows, painted by Travis

The cathedral ceiling and structural steel, painted from a 32-foot lift, San Antonio.

Scope: tape and float, wall and ceiling paint, structural steel, cap flashing.

The build at a glance

What we did

Travis taped, floated, and painted every wall and the structural ceiling in the showroom. The shell was existing but nearly everything got new sheet rock, so almost every painted surface was built up from bare board to finish. In the space everyone on site called the cathedral ceiling, the crew worked from a 32-foot lift to reach heights around 38 to 40 feet, painting the structural steel that frames the big glass windows. Outside, the building was in good shape, so the only exterior work was cap flashing along the top of the wall.

Most jobs you float, then you paint. This one we did both at once, six lifts deep.

The Challenges

The schedule drove everything. The timeline was tighter than normal, so instead of taping and floating the whole space and coming back to paint, Travis ran both crews at once. Floaters worked one end of the building with painters right behind them, moving down the space as a single line. At peak the crew had six lifts going at the same time in one room. The finish had to be flawless because the showroom lighting spotlights every wall, so any imperfection would show. On top of that, owner-furnished lighting was staged to come in right behind the paint crew, which meant no room to run late. Travis hit the window and got out of the way.

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General Contractor: GW Mitchell. Owner: Crate and Barrel. La Cantera, San Antonio, Texas. Photos by BILT Marketing

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