Interior repairs & build-out
Commercial Interior Repairs and Build-Out in Lexington and Richmond, KY
Central Property Services scopes, prices and takes responsibility for interior repair and build-out work in occupied commercial buildings in Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County) — partition walls, drywall and ceilings, door openings, trim, paint and floor covering inside the work area. This page shows you the scope we write and the exclusions that come with it, before you have to ask for either.
Who this is for
Facilities maintenance managers, commercial property managers, and owner-operators of occupied commercial buildings in Madison and Fayette County, Kentucky. Offices, banks, medical and professional suites, retail spaces, and the tenant areas inside them.
Not homeowners. We do not do residential work — no houses, no basements, no homeowner drywall patches. If that is what you need, we are the wrong number, and we would rather say so now than on a walkthrough.
What we repair and build
Walls and partitions
Non-load-bearing partition walls, framed and finished. Closing off an existing opening so the wall reads continuous on both sides. Blocking and backing where trim, casework or wall-mounted equipment needs it.
Drywall and ceilings
Drywall repair, new drywall on new framing, and framed drywall ceilings. Hung, taped, mudded and sanded to a paint-ready Level 4 finish, with disturbed adjacent areas patched back.
Door openings
Framing a rough opening, setting a frame, hanging and adjusting doors, and casing both sides — including doors you already own. A door in a new wall is this page. A door that has failed on a building you already occupy is commercial door repair.
Trim, paint and floor covering
Crown molding, baseboard, casing and trim — installed, caulked, filled and painted. Two coats of interior latex matched as closely as practical to your existing colors. Carpet squares and transition strips inside the work area.
What a CPS scope looks like
Every CPS interior quote is written as numbered steps, and you get the steps before you approve anything. The example below is the one most often asked for — a non-load-bearing partition wall with a door opening. It is generic on purpose: no building, no dimensions and no price, because those come out of walking your space. The structure is what stays the same.
- Layout and protection Verify field dimensions and existing conditions, mark the wall line on the floor and the ceiling, locate the door opening, and protect adjacent floors, walls and furnishings.
- Plates Anchor a pressure-treated bottom plate to the floor and a top plate to the existing ceiling framing, or to a new header at the dropped-ceiling line, plumb to each other along the full run.
- Studs and blocking Set studs at 16 in. on center for the full height, with blocking and backing where trim and finish work will land.
- Rough opening Frame the door rough opening with a header, king studs and jack studs sized to the doors going in, square and plumb.
- Frame and doors Set the door frame kit, hang the doors, fit and adjust them for smooth operation, and install casing on both sides.
- Drywall Hang drywall on both faces, then tape, mud and sand to a paint-ready Level 4 finish.
- Paint and trim Prime and apply two coats of interior latex matched as closely as practical to the existing colors; install, caulk, fill and paint casing and baseboard on both sides.
- Ceiling tie-in Tie the top of the new wall into the existing ceiling grid so the wall reads as finished from both rooms.
- Cleanup Load, haul and dispose of all construction debris and leave the work area broom-clean.
What this does not include
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, fire sprinkler and fire alarm, low-voltage, access control, permits and inspections, engineering, structural work, fire-rated assemblies, specialty hardware, painting outside the new-work area, and concealed conditions.
That list is on the estimate itself, not buried behind it. Excluded work can be quoted as a separate written change order.
Additional or changed work you ask for during the job is charged on a time and materials basis. Anything on the exclusions list is quoted in writing and approved before it is done. The invoice you did not expect is the argument every manager is actually trying to avoid, and this is where it gets prevented — on the quote, not in the dispute.
Working in an occupied building
Your tenants stay in the building. Our scopes are written that way: a contained work area with safe access through occupied space, adjacent floors, walls, doors and furnishings protected before anything is cut, and normal weekday hours with owner-provided access and a cleared work area.
Six things we need answered before a quote is worth the paper, because each one changes the scope rather than the price alone:
- What access window does the space actually have, and who lets us in?
- Can the work run during normal weekday hours, or does your building require otherwise?
- Badge, escort or sign-in rules, and who issues them.
- How much notice tenants need, and who gives it.
- Elevator or freight access, and any protection the building requires in the path.
- Where debris stages, and what day the dumpster is pulled.
The finish standard, and where a match will not be perfect
Publishing the places a match cannot be guaranteed is not a weakness in the quote. It is the reason the rest of the quote is worth believing.
| Element | What the scope says |
|---|---|
| Drywall finish | Level 4 — taped, mudded and sanded paint-ready on all new surfaces, with disturbed adjacent areas patched back. |
| Paint | Prime, then two coats of interior latex, matched as closely as practical to your existing colors. Practical is the operative word: an aged wall and a new wall rarely read identically under the same light. |
| Carpet and floor covering | Carpet squares set inside the work area with transition strips where they meet existing flooring. An exact match to your existing carpet cannot be guaranteed. |
| Doors and hardware you supply | Hung, fit, adjusted for smooth operation and cased both sides. They must arrive in serviceable condition; fit adjustments are included, but the condition, size and compatibility of owner-furnished doors and hardware is not warranted. |
| Trim | Crown and baseboard installed, caulked, filled and painted, including across any infilled opening. |
If your storeroom already holds the doors, the tile or the trim, say so in the request. We would rather install what the building owns than sell you a replacement for it — the same reason a scope can be written to reuse an existing door in a new wall instead of buying a new one.
Before we quote — the site and the money questions
Most quotes get stuck after they are written, not before. These are the questions we ask so the quote arrives in a form you can actually move, coded to the right line the first time.
- Who is authorized to approve this work, and what is their title?
- Is there a PO or work-order number now, or does one get issued after approval?
- Is there a not-to-exceed figure we should write the quote against?
- Is this coming out of an operating line or a capital line?
- Above your own approval limit, how many written bids do you need?
- Once it leaves your desk, how long does owner approval usually take?
We do not publish approval thresholds, typical figures or ranges. Every portfolio sets its own in its management agreement, and the only number that matters on your building is yours. Tell us what it is and the quote gets written to it.
Getting it approved, and the budget calendar
Repair money and capital money move on different clocks. A drywall patch and a new partition can sit on the same wall and land on two different lines, and the line decides how long approval takes.
If the work is not this year’s money, tell us. We would rather walk the space, write findings you can paste into next year’s request, and be there when it funds, than lose the job to a calendar. For a portfolio running a calendar fiscal year, the window to influence next year’s maintenance and capital lines usually falls in late summer into fall — but ask your own fiscal year and your own budget deadline rather than assuming ours. They are the two questions that decide whether a walkthrough this month is early or late.
Not this year’s money? Ask for a walkthrough and written findings — the version built to go into a budget request rather than a work order.
How a request becomes a work order
What comes back to you, in this order:
- A walk of the space, inside the access window you gave us.
- A written scope, numbered step by step, in the language shown above.
- The exclusions list attached to it — on the document, not behind it.
- The change-order rule in writing, so nothing gets added by conversation.
- Payment terms, stated in the proposal itself.
That set is what you attach to a work order and defend upward. It is the whole reason this page exists: you should be able to see what you will be attaching before you spend a call finding out.
What we do not take on
Outside our scope, stated plainly
- Residential property. Houses, basements, homeowner repairs.
- HVAC, electrical and plumbing. We do not advertise, sell or take responsibility for these trades. After hours, those calls are referred rather than taken.
- Fire sprinkler, fire alarm, low-voltage and access control. Those belong to the contractors who hold them.
- Permits and inspections, engineering, structural work, fire-rated assemblies and specialty hardware. On our exclusions list, on every estimate.
- Restoration. No water extraction, no drying, no mold, no fire remediation. We hold no restoration certification and do not imply one.
- Concealed conditions. What is found inside a wall after it is opened is quoted as a separate written change order, never absorbed silently and never billed by surprise.
Roof surfaces and roof systems
We do not repair the roof. Roof surfaces and roof systems are handled by a separate company — centralroofrepair.com. If your interior damage starts above the ceiling, that call goes there first, and the interior repair is worth scoping only once the water has stopped.
Related work
Commercial door repair
A door that has failed on a building you already occupy — the door, its frame and the opening it hangs in. Not overhead, garage or roll-up doors.
Emergency and make-safe response
When the building is open, unsecured or unsafe right now. Make-safe and secure only — the repair that follows gets scoped here.
Grounds, lot and exterior cleaning
Pressure washing, striping, debris and lot work. One vendor across the lines means one contact and one paper trail instead of four.
Building envelope
Gutters, flashing, sealants, masonry patch and siding — the outside work that keeps water from becoming an interior repair.
Vendor paperwork — W-9, insurance certificates, credentialing and work-order intake — is on the approved vendor page.
Request an assessment
Tell us the building, the work and the access window
Send what the space is, what needs repairing or building, when we can get in, who is authorized to approve it, and a PO or work-order number if one exists. You get a written scope, the exclusions and the change-order rule back — not a sales call.
Serving Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County).