Exterior commercial painting · St. Lucie County
Exterior commercial painting in St. Lucie County
An exterior repaint in St. Lucie County starts with an address check. The same color can be fine on US 1 in the unincorporated county, need the approved chart in Port St. Lucie, and need a certificate in downtown Fort Pierce.
In Port St. Lucie, the citywide design standards say plainly that painting the walls must comply with the section on building face color. A color change on a commercial, office, industrial or institutional face that can be seen from the street has to match the city's approved chart. The standards favor light to medium pastels and earth tones, with darker colors held to small accent and trim areas.
Fort Pierce has six historic districts, including the downtown district and Lincoln Park along Avenue D. Painting there needs a certificate of appropriateness, and a plain repaint is a staff-level approval. Painting a surface that was never painted before, on a contributing building, goes to the Historic Preservation Board instead.
Tradition and St. Lucie West are exempt from the city standards because they adopted their own when they were planned. On a building there, we ask the owner for the governing design documents before choosing color. In the unincorporated county, the muted-tone rule is written for new work and major redevelopment.
Painting inside Port St. Lucie city limits? See how the city reviews color
Order of work
- Confirm the jurisdiction and any historic or master-plan design rule.
- Walk every face and map cracks, rust stains and failed sealant.
- Get the color approved where the address requires it.
- Wash, capture the water, repair stucco and replace sealant.
- Prime repairs and apply finish coats face by face.
- Go around every elevation with the owner and finish each item still open.
What usually goes wrong
Where this job goes wrong in St. Lucie County
Color ordered before approval
Ordering paint before Port St. Lucie or a Fort Pierce historic review has signed off is the mistake that hurts most on an exterior. Romco settles the color first and orders after.
Stucco cracks under the old coat
Hairline cracks and hollow patches show up once the wall is washed. They are repaired and primed before any finish coat, or the new paint fails along the same lines.
Afternoon storms in summer
Fort Pierce's average wet season runs from late May to late October. Exterior coats are scheduled for the dry part of the day, with time left for each coat to set.
Outside scope
Structural repair of spalled concrete, roofing, window replacement and electrical work on wall fixtures are separate licensed scopes. Romco coordinates them so they finish before the paint goes on.
Questions
About exterior commercial painting
Does Port St. Lucie let us pick any exterior color?
Not for a commercial face visible from the street. A color change there has to match the city's approved chart, and darker colors are limited to accents and trim. Repainting in the same approved color is simpler.
Is a repaint in downtown Fort Pierce reviewed?
Yes, inside a historic district. A certificate of appropriateness is needed first. Repainting is decided by city staff, while painting a never-painted surface on a contributing building goes to the board.
What will painting my St. Lucie building cost?
We do not give a figure until we have walked the building, because the number turns on things a phone call cannot show: how much stucco needs repair, how the walls are reached, whether a Port St. Lucie color review or a Fort Pierce certificate comes first, and how the wash water is captured. After the walk you get a written quote, broken out by surface and by step, so you can compare it line by line.
Is there a job size Romco will not quote?
No. We quote one repainted tenant suite in a plaza on US 1 and we quote the full exterior of an oceanfront condominium on Hutchinson Island. Small jobs get the same written scope as large ones.
Is Romco licensed?
Yes. Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor. It was founded in 2015, is based in Fort Lauderdale, and runs St. Lucie County painting jobs under that license.
How Romco runs it
The order of work
Walk the building, check the jurisdiction
We confirm whether the address falls under the county, Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce or St. Lucie Village, and note any historic designation.
Write the scope
Surfaces, repairs, coatings, access equipment and working hours go into one written scope, so the quote compares line by line.
Clear color approvals
Where Port St. Lucie's chart or a Fort Pierce certificate applies, the color is approved before any paint is ordered.
Prepare and contain
Cleaning, repairs and masking come first, with wash water captured instead of sent to a storm inlet.
Apply the coatings
Coats go on to the maker's written instructions for temperature, humidity and recoat time, not to a calendar.
Walk it and close out
We walk the finished surfaces with you, write a punch list, finish it and hand over the color and product records.
Exterior commercial painting across St. Lucie, including Port St. Lucie, Tradition, St. Lucie West, Fort Pierce, Lincoln Park, St. Lucie Village, Hutchinson Island South, Unincorporated St. Lucie County, and every other St. Lucie city.
Other painting work
More commercial painting we quote
- Interior commercial paintingOffices, clinics, corridors and suites repainted while the building stays open.Interior commercial painting in St. Lucie →
- High-rise and condo exterior repaintsOceanfront and lagoon-side condo towers repainted from swing stage, rope or lift.High-rise and condo exterior repaints in St. Lucie →
- Warehouse and industrial paintingMetal-sided warehouses, tilt-wall and steel framing, painted around live operations.Warehouse and industrial painting in St. Lucie →
- Parking garage coatings and stripingGarage decks sealed, columns and walls repainted, stalls re-striped one deck at a time.Parking garage coatings and striping in St. Lucie →
- Airport and transportation facility paintingHangars, terminal and port buildings, painted under the operator's access rules.Airport and transportation facility painting in St. Lucie →
- Office, retail and tenant improvement paintingTenant suites, storefronts and plazas painted on the lease schedule.Office, retail and tenant improvement painting in St. Lucie →
- HOA and multifamily repaintsCondo associations and apartment communities repainted building by building.HOA and multifamily repaints in St. Lucie →
- Hotel and hospitality paintingGuest rooms, pool decks and facades painted floor by floor around guests.Hotel and hospitality painting in St. Lucie →
- Hospital, clinic and school building paintingHospitals, clinics and schools painted around patients, students and staff.Hospital, clinic and school building painting in St. Lucie →
- Elastomeric and waterproofing coatingsElastomeric wall coatings and waterproofing over repaired stucco and block.Elastomeric and waterproofing coatings in St. Lucie →
- Pressure washing and surface prepCommercial walls washed and prepped, with every gallon of rinse water captured.Pressure washing and surface prep in St. Lucie →
- Something else?Prefer to talk it through? Call during office hours, Monday to Friday, 10 to 6, or email info@romcobuilders.com with photos.Call (772) 310-3298 →
Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce and the island
Send the address and we will tell you which rules your repaint falls under
Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. Then we quote the scope, the order of work and the approvals it needs.