About
A working painting
contractor since 1975.
Two generations on the job, three sectors of work, one company. Based in Waterloo, running across Southern Ontario.
The Story
Half a century of paint.
Pesada Painting opened in Waterloo in 1975. The first jobs were small commercial repaints — shops on King Street, an office building or two. The work expanded into manufacturing plants through the 1980s, into school boards and hospitals through the 1990s, and into new-construction packages with general contractors after that.
The model has not changed. The estimators are on staff. The project managers are on staff. The foremen came up through the trade. The crews work for us. We have the kit on the truck. When you hire Pesada, you hire Pesada — not a brokerage that will sub the job out for the cheapest bid.
Fifty years of repeat customers and word-of-mouth referrals is the only marketing budget the company has ever needed. We would like the next fifty to run the same way.
Timeline
Five decades of working buildings.
1975
Founded in Waterloo
Started as a two-person residential and small-commercial painting outfit serving Kitchener-Waterloo.
1980s
Industrial focus
Took on first manufacturing-plant repaint contracts. Built the spray crew and scaffold capability.
1990s
Institutional approvals
Added board-approved vendor status with several Southern Ontario school boards and hospitals.
2000s
Multi-trade scope
Began running new-construction packages for general contractors. Brought epoxy and high-build coatings in-house.
2010s
Floor coatings & line marking
Diamond-grinding kit and methyl-methacrylate line marking added to the crew.
2020s
Fifty years on the job
Two-generation operation, project managers and foremen who came up through the trade, crews working from Sarnia to Barrie.
Capabilities
Equipment.
Crews.
Systems.
We invest in the kit and the tickets so the bid is a real bid, not a hope.
- 80,000 sq ft / weekSpray-applied production capacity on dryfall ceilings
- SSPC-SP6 to SP10Surface preparation across structural steel and tanks
- Two-pack epoxyIndustrial floor and equipment coating systems
- WSIB compliantFully insured, written safety plan, on-site supervisor every job
- Working at heightsTrained and ticketed crews — boom, scissor, swing-stage
- Low-VOC, low-odourAvailable systems for occupied schools, hospitals, offices
- Project managersIn-house estimators, schedulers, foremen — no broker handoffs
- Phased shutdown workMobilise around your production calendar, not ours
Safety & Compliance
Insured, ticketed, paperwork in hand.
Every Pesada crew shows up with WSIB coverage, written safety plans, working-at-heights certification, and a foreman whose name is on the day-of paperwork. Larger industrial sites get a project-specific safety package before mobilisation.
For school-board, university, and hospital work we maintain the additional approvals, criminal-record checks, and infection-control protocols those sectors require. If a vendor package needs filling out, we have done it before.
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