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Our paint booth does far more than close out accident work. A custom color you’ve had in mind for years, a fleet of work trucks that has to look identical down the row, a two-tone or accent treatment, a complete respray to undo a decade of sun — that’s the work this department is built for. Every one of those jobs stands or falls on the same details: surface prep, the right materials, a clean booth, and a painter who matches to the vehicle rather than to a code.

Collision refinishing runs through the same booth — bringing a repaired panel back to factory appearance and blending it in so the work disappears — and it has its own page: see paint repair. This page is the wider picture: custom and commercial finishes, complete repaints and color changes, and why the same standard holds whether it’s one accent stripe or an entire fleet. All of it follows the same OEM refinish procedures.

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What We Paint

Custom Color & Finishes

Custom color changes, two-tone treatments and accent work, sprayed in a controlled booth and matched panel to panel so the result looks factory-built rather than aftermarket. Tell us the look you’re after and we’ll lay out what’s achievable on your vehicle.

Commercial, Lettering & Fleet Graphics

Lettering, striping and graphics for work trucks and fleets — matched and consistent across every vehicle so the fleet reads as one brand. One point of contact whether it’s a single van or the whole yard, and finishes chosen to hold up to daily commercial use.

Complete Repaints & Color Change

When the factory finish has failed across the whole car — fading, oxidation, clear coat peeling — or you simply want a different color, we strip, prep and refinish the entire vehicle to the same standard we hold a single panel to. Done in a booth, not a driveway.

Collision Refinishing

Restoring a repaired panel to factory color and finish, then blending into the panels around it so the repair can’t be found. Matched to your car as it looks now, not to the paint code by itself.

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Custom & Commercial Paint

This is where a body-shop booth earns its keep beyond insurance work. Custom and commercial jobs live and die on consistency — a color that reads the same on the door as it does on the quarter panel, striping that lines up from one truck to the next, a finish that still looks sharp after a year of car washes and highway miles. That’s a prep-and-booth problem before it’s a design problem, and it’s the part we control tightly.

For fleets, the win is uniformity and a single point of contact: bring in one vehicle or twenty and every one leaves matched to the same spec, so the fleet looks like a fleet instead of a collection of near-misses. Where a job calls for a specialised bench, we route it within our shops and still keep it one conversation for you. Custom and commercial work is quoted from the actual vehicle and the actual scope — tell us what you have in mind and we’ll walk you through the options and a firm number.

Why Drivers Choose T&C for Paint

Gloved hand pulling dust off a masked, primed body panel with a tack cloth just before painting

The last wipe-down before color. A tack cloth lifts dust the eye never catches — because anything left on the panel ends up under the paint.

  • Matched to your car, not the code. Paint ages in the sun, so we match to the actual panel and confirm it on sprayed test cards in daylight before any color touches the vehicle.
  • Consistent across a fleet. Color, lettering and striping are held to one spec vehicle to vehicle, so a fleet looks deliberate rather than pieced together over time.
  • Booth-sprayed and properly cured. Color goes on in a controlled, filtered booth, not in the open where dust cures into the finish — the single biggest reason a professional paint job outlasts a cheap one.
  • The right system for your finish. Single-stage, base-coat/clear-coat, metallic, pearl and tri-coat all behave differently — each is sprayed in its own correct number of stages over prepared, primed surfaces, with corrosion protection restored.
  • I-CAR, ASE, PPG and 3M certified technicians and estimators. PPG and 3M certification is refinishing and materials training specifically — which is most of what a paint job really is.
  • Free assessment, up-front pricing, warrantied work. The recommendation and the price are yours before we start, and the vehicle comes back washed and vacuumed.

Quick Paint Questions

The questions we field most about custom color, fleet work, repaints and matching. If yours isn’t here, call the shop at (614) 471-0505 — we’re glad to walk you through it.

What kinds of paint work do you take on?

Four broad kinds. Custom color and finishes — color changes, two-tone and accent work. Commercial and fleet paint, including lettering, striping and graphics kept consistent across every vehicle. Complete repaints, when the whole finish has failed or you want a new color. And collision refinishing, blending a repaired panel back into the car. Every bit of it is booth-sprayed to one standard.

Can you do custom colors, two-tone or accent work?

Yes — it’s a core part of what this booth is for. Custom color changes, two-tone treatments and accents are sprayed and matched panel to panel so the result reads as intentional and factory-clean, not tacked on. The look you want and the vehicle you’re bringing both shape what’s achievable, so tell us the goal and we’ll show you the realistic options before anything is committed.

Do you handle fleet lettering, striping and graphics?

We do, and consistency is the whole point — color, lettering and striping held to one spec so every vehicle in the fleet matches the next. Bring in a single van or the entire yard; it stays one point of contact for you, and finishes are chosen to survive daily commercial use and repeated washing. Where a job needs a specialised bench, we route it within our shops without handing you off.

Can you repaint my entire car, and what will it run?

Yes. The price rides almost entirely on how much prep the car needs and how far you want the paint to reach — a straight respray in the same color is one thing; carrying it into the jambs, under the hood and inside the trunk for a color change is another. Rather than quote a range that wouldn’t fit your car, we look at the vehicle and give you a firm number before any work starts. The assessment is free.

Can you change the color of my car?

We can. A proper color change means painting the areas most shops skip — jambs, under the hood, the trunk and the door shuts — so the car doesn’t read as its old color the moment a door swings open. That’s exactly why it costs more than a same-color respray. Worth knowing: a color change can affect how the vehicle is described on its registration, so it’s wise to update that afterward.

My clear coat is peeling on the roof and hood — can you fix it?

Yes, and it’s common in central Ohio — sun and weather wear clear coat down over time, and once it hazes or flakes it can’t be buffed back. The fix is to strip the failed areas to a sound surface, refinish them, and blend into the surrounding panels. Caught while it’s the roof and hood rather than the whole car, it’s a smaller job. There’s more on that on our paint repair page.

How long does a paint job take?

It scales with scope. A single blended panel is a different animal from a full repaint or a fleet, and prep — the sanding, cleaning and priming underneath — eats most of the time either way. Paint also has to cure: safe to drive within hours, but still hardening for a few weeks, during which we ask you to hand wash gently and skip automatic washes. You get a realistic timeline with your estimate.

What makes a booth repaint worth more than a cheap production job?

Because you’re paying for what you can’t see. A cheap repaint saves its money on prep and on where it’s sprayed — less sanding, thinner materials, an open shop instead of a filtered booth — and those are precisely the things that decide whether the finish lasts or starts lifting and fading within a year. Prep and booth time are most of the cost, and they’re most of the result.

Do I need an appointment?

It helps, and you can request one online or send photos of the vehicle from your phone — often enough for us to tell you roughly what you’re looking at before you drive over. The assessment and the estimate cost nothing, and you'll have the number before any work begins.

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