Commercial Contractor Covering the Midlands, North West & Wales
Wallace Contracts Ltd has grown steadily from its roots in Stoke-on-Trent into a commercial contractor operating across a wide area of England and Wales. Over the course of more than 45 years, we have built relationships with clients in retail, hospitality, care, construction, education and property management — delivering projects from single-trade painting jobs to complex, multi-trade refurbishments worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
As our client base has grown, so too has our geography. Today we regularly deliver projects across the Midlands, the North West, Wales and, for larger projects, anywhere in the UK. This post gives a clear picture of where we work, what we offer in each area and why businesses across the country choose Wallace Contracts to look after their properties.
Based in Stoke-on-Trent, Working Nationwide
Our headquarters is Unit 1 Sneyd Business Park in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire — a central location that allows us to mobilise quickly to sites across a wide radius. Stoke-on-Trent sits at the heart of our operation and remains one of our most active areas, where we work for clients including JD Wetherspoon, Fuchs Lubricants, Hurstwood Holdings, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Arnold Machin and many others.
For projects over approximately £10,000, we offer our full range of services anywhere in the UK. This nationwide capability has allowed us to support clients with large property portfolios — including national retailers, bookmakers, care providers and automotive groups — who need a consistent, reliable contractor they can trust across all their sites, not just those closest to our base.
The Midlands: Our Heartland
The Midlands is the area we know best. We work extensively across Staffordshire, the West Midlands, Shropshire, Worcestershire and the East Midlands, serving clients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Telford, Shrewsbury, Nottingham, Leicester and Derbyshire.
In Birmingham, we have completed projects at the National Exhibition Centre for Magna Projects, office decoration packages for Oktra at Forrester’s head office and Ingenuity House, and retail refurbishments for Coral. In Walsall, we have delivered multiple refurbishment programmes for Ladbrokes and Coral, as well as care home works for Achieve Together and CareTech. In Wolverhampton, our work for Arnold Clark included converting existing rooms into classrooms within their car showroom.
Across Derbyshire, we have delivered an extensive multi-phase refurbishment programme for Eurocell at their Alfreton head office and Ilkeston recycling centre, covering toilet refurbishments, office upgrades, flooring installations and full internal decoration. In Nottingham, we have carried out refurbishment and maintenance works for Ladbrokes across multiple stores.
The North West: A Growing Area of Operation
The North West has become one of our most active regions, with a strong pipeline of work across Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire. We have delivered projects in Manchester, Liverpool, Stockport, Oldham, Wirral, Crewe and a number of smaller towns and cities across the region.
In Manchester, our portfolio includes decoration packages for Oktra at Sevendale House and multiple other office developments, internal decoration at Manchester University’s Williamson Building, refurbishments for CareTech and Hydes Brewery, and numerous projects for Rudy’s Pizza Napoletana, Jamieson Contracting and Coral. In Liverpool, we have completed multi-store refurbishment programmes for Ladbrokes, a comprehensive care home renovation for Mencap, internal decoration at Liverpool Lime Street Station for Jamieson Contracting, and floor and painting works for Arnold Clark.
In Stockport, our work includes the prestigious Stockport Exchange office development for Oktra and internal decoration for JD Wetherspoon at The Wilfred Wood. In Oldham, we have completed decoration works for JD Wetherspoon at both The Ash Tree and The Shay Wake. Across the Wirral and Birkenhead, we have delivered showroom refurbishments, fire door installations and specialist floor painting for Arnold Clark. In Crewe, our projects have included interior decoration at The Broughton restaurant for Parogon Group, office decoration for Assurant and retail refresh works for Frasers Group.
Wales: From North to South
Wallace Contracts is increasingly active across Wales, having delivered projects in North Wales, South Wales and Mid Wales. In Wrexham, we delivered a full decoration package for Wynne Construction at Wrexham University. In Llandudno, we have completed storefront repairs and redecoration for the British Heart Foundation and external decoration for Holland & Barrett. In Llanelli, we painted the café and swimming pool areas at Everlast Gyms. In Cardiff, we delivered internal decoration for Flannels.
We also delivered one of our most ambitious single projects in North Wales — a 13-week full conversion of a residential property into a fully operational care home, encompassing mechanical and electrical installations, fire safety systems, kitchen and bathroom fitting, external groundworks and full decoration throughout.
What We Offer: A Full Range of Commercial Property Services
Across all of these areas, we offer the same comprehensive range of services. Here is a summary of what Wallace Contracts can deliver for your property:
Commercial Painting & Decorating
Our core trade. We deliver internal and external decoration for commercial clients across all sectors, including retail, hospitality, care, office, industrial, education and healthcare. Our decorators are experienced in all finishes and surface types, from emulsion and satinwood through to specialist coatings, masonry paint and airless spray-painted suspended ceilings. We work at height using cherry pickers, mobile scaffold towers and fixed scaffolding, with all operatives holding relevant IPAF and PASMA qualifications.
Property Refurbishment
As an SSIP-approved main contractor, we plan, coordinate and deliver multi-trade refurbishment projects of all sizes. We manage joinery, plumbing, electrical, plastering, flooring and decoration under one contract, providing clients with a single point of contact and a seamless service from start to finish. Our refurbishment portfolio includes retail shopfits, care home upgrades, office conversions, hospitality refurbishments, industrial welfare facilities and residential developments.
Dilapidations
We support commercial tenants and landlords with all aspects of dilapidations works at the end of a lease. Services include strip-outs, making good, redecoration, flooring replacement and external repairs. We work efficiently to lease expiry deadlines and provide clear documentation to support a clean handover. We have experience working alongside chartered surveyors and property managing agents across all of our operating areas.
Minor Works, Maintenance & Repairs
Not every job is a major refurbishment. We also deliver planned and reactive maintenance works for clients across the UK, including gutter cleaning and repairs, roof tile replacement, render repairs, joinery repairs, glass replacement, external redecoration and a wide range of other minor works. Our maintenance clients value our fast response times, our quality of finish and our ability to manage small works programmes with the same professionalism we bring to larger projects.
Shopfitting & Dilapidations
For clients opening new retail premises or exiting old ones, we offer shopfitting and dilapidations services that cover everything from fixture and fitting installation through to full strip-outs and reinstatement works. We have worked with national retailers including Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Goldsmiths, Sports Direct, Flannels and Mind on projects across England and Wales.
The Sectors We Serve
Wallace Contracts works across a broad range of commercial sectors. Our key areas of expertise include:
- ✅ Retail — shopfits, refreshes, dilapidations and maintenance for national and regional retailers
- ✅ Hospitality — pub, restaurant and hotel refurbishments and decoration, typically completed outside trading hours
- ✅ Care — refurbishment, wet room installation, accessibility improvements and maintenance for care homes and supported living facilities
- ✅ Construction — decoration and finishing packages delivered for main contractors on new build and fit-out projects
- ✅ Education — decoration and refurbishment works in schools, colleges and universities
- ✅ Office & Commercial — office refurbishments, fit-outs and decoration for occupiers, developers and property managers
- ✅ Automotive — showroom refurbishments, fire door installation, specialist floor coatings and maintenance for car dealerships
- ✅ Industrial — welfare facility upgrades, building repairs and maintenance for industrial occupiers
Why Clients Choose Wallace Contracts
Clients across the UK choose Wallace Contracts for a number of consistent reasons. First, our single point of contact model means there is always one person responsible for the project — someone who knows the brief, manages the programme and answers the phone when you call. Second, our SSIP accreditation gives clients confidence that our health and safety standards are independently verified and consistently maintained on every site. Third, our track record of working for major national clients — including JD Wetherspoon, Arnold Clark, Coral, Ladbrokes, Frasers Group, Achieve Together and many others — demonstrates that we can operate to the standards expected by large, demanding organisations with multiple sites across the country.
We are big enough to deliver complex, multi-trade projects to tight programmes and significant budgets, but small enough to care about every client and every job. That balance — articulated in our strapline, Big Enough to Deliver and Small Enough to Care — is at the heart of everything we do.
Get in Touch
If you have a commercial property project anywhere across the Midlands, North West, Wales or beyond, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss how Wallace Contracts can help. Whether you need a painting contractor for a single store, a refurbishment partner for a rolling programme of sites, or a dilapidations specialist to help you exit a lease cleanly, our team is ready to help.
Call us on 01782 810220, email us at enquiries@wallacecontractsltd.com, or visit our contact page to send us a message. We look forward to hearing from you.
Areas We Cover
Stoke-on-Trent Walsall Telford Liverpool Shrewsbury Stockport Birmingham Oldham Nottingham Derbyshire Leicester Wirral Wolverhampton Crewe Manchester WalesFor projects over circa £10,000 we offer services Nationwide.
