For specifiers
Bodaq® for commercial projects
Bodaq suits commercial work because it refinishes surfaces in place, on a night shift, without wet trades — which is what makes it viable in occupied hotels, trading retail and working buildings. The specification questions are consistent: fix the pattern code, confirm the fire certificate for that code and the occupancy, and confirm the substrate.
Hospitality
Guest-room joinery, wardrobe fronts, headboard panels, corridor wall film and reception fronts. The commercial logic is room-nights: a floor can be turned progressively, room by room, with each room back in service the same day. Corridors can be done overnight. Because the film is dry-applied there is no solvent odour to clear before the room is re-let.
Common choices are Standard Wood and Origin Wood for joinery, with Solid for reveals and returns so the detailing reads as cabinetry rather than as applied film.
Elevator cabs
Lift interiors are one of the highest-value uses. A cab is a small area with a disproportionate impact on how a building is perceived, and taking it out of service for panel replacement is expensive and slow. Refinishing walls, ceiling, door leaves and jambs in film is typically a single night shift per car.
Hyundai L&C's technical bulletin states the film is approved to ASME A17.1 in the United States, CSA B44 in Canada and by TSSA. Confirm the pattern-specific documentation with your elevator contractor and the authority having jurisdiction — the lift is usually the surface most closely scrutinised on a project. Metallic families such as Real Metal are the usual starting point, with Stone & Marble for a stone read.
Retail and workplace
Shopfitting, display units, tea-point casework, meeting-room fronts and reception desks. Retail favours film because a store can be refitted between trading days and because a brand refresh often needs a finish change rather than new joinery. In workplace fit-outs the same argument applies to landlord-fitted casework that is structurally fine but visually dated.
Multifamily
Unit turnovers, lobby refreshes and amenity spaces. The value is that work can run as a rolling programme against natural vacancy rather than as a shutdown, and that a kitchen can be refaced between tenancies without a full strip-out. See film vs repainting and replacement for how that compares.
Healthcare and education
Door leaves and frames, ward and classroom casework, corridor linings. These are environments where wet trades, dust and downtime are genuinely disruptive and often restricted. Film's dry application is the main attraction. Certification requirements tend to be stricter here, so fix the pattern early and pull the report — see fire ratings.
What specifiers need to confirm
- Pattern code, in writing. Codes such as W953 or PM019 are what get ordered — descriptions are not.
- Fire documentation for that code, matched to the occupancy. Reports are issued per pattern series; ask and we will send the current one.
- Substrate condition. Film follows what is underneath. Budget preparation honestly — it is the biggest variable in the install.
- Quantities and stock. Full rolls are 48″ × 164 ft; cut lengths suit smaller scopes.
- Sample sign-off under project lighting. Screens are unreliable for colour and useless for emboss.
Documentation available
Test reports per pattern series (ASTM E84 / UL 723, CAN/ULC-S102, DIN 4102-1), elevator compliance references, material content data covering heavy metals, phthalates, PBBs and PBDEs, and an Environmental Product Declaration. The published figures are summarised on the performance page; the underlying documents come from Surface Supply on request.