Elevator Wraps & Cab Refinishing
The most-seen, most-abused surface in your building — brought back overnight.
3M™ DI-NOC™ film on cab walls, doors, and jambs, installed by 3M-certified crews with the car back in service by morning.
Everyone in the Building Stands in That Box Twice a Day
An elevator cab is the one interior every tenant, guest, and visitor experiences at close range, alone, with nothing else to look at. Scratched stainless, dented panels, and dated laminate register immediately, and they say something about how the building is run that no lobby renovation can undo.
Replacing a cab interior is a major capital project with weeks of downtime for a car that a building genuinely cannot spare. Refinishing with 3M™ DI-NOC™ film achieves the visual result at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time — typically overnight, per car, with the elevator back in service for the morning rush.
C17 Media's 3M-certified crews refinish cab walls, ceilings, doors, jambs, and return panels across office towers, hotels, condominiums, and healthcare facilities throughout the GTA.
What Our Elevator Refinishing Covers
1. Cab Interior Walls
Side and rear panels refinished in brushed metals, wood grains, stone, or solid colours — the single biggest visual change available in a cab.
4. Cab Ceilings
Often overlooked, always in someone's field of view. A refinished ceiling completes the enclosure rather than leaving the old finish framing the new one.
2. Elevator Doors & Jambs
Both the cab doors and the hoistway doors on every floor, so the finish reads consistently from the corridor as well as from inside the car.
5. Anti-Graffiti & Protective Overlays
Sacrificial protective layers for high-traffic and residential buildings, replaced individually when marked rather than requiring the panel to be redone.
3. Return Panels & Fixtures
The panel around the call buttons is where wear shows first and is noticed most. Refinishing it is what separates a proper job from a partial one.
6. Custom Branded & Printed Cabs
Custom-printed graphics for corporate headquarters, retail environments, hotels, and campaigns — the cab as a branded environment rather than a neutral box.
The Benefits of Elevator Film
- Overnight turnaround, per car — the elevator is out of service for a night, not for weeks.
- A fraction of cab replacement cost — a maintenance-budget project instead of a capital one.
- Scratch and scuff resistant — the protective micro-overlay is built for the highest-touch surface in the building.
- Repairable panel by panel — one damaged wall is re-skinned individually.
- Hundreds of finishes — including brushed and patinated metals that look like the stainless the cab wishes it still had.
- No structural work — nothing is removed, nothing is disturbed, and no elevator contractor coordination is required for the finish itself.
Why Buildings Choose Film Over a New Cab
Downtime Is the Real Cost
In a tower with three cars, taking one out for three weeks changes how the whole building feels. One night per car is a scheduling note, not an incident.
Metal Finishes Without Metal Prices
DI-NOC's brushed, hairline, and patinated metal films reproduce the finishes buildings actually want at a materially lower cost than replacement panels.
Consistency Across a Portfolio
Property managers with multiple buildings can bring every cab to one standard on a rolling schedule, funded from operating rather than capital.
Elevator Refinishing FAQs
Why brands trust C17 Media
A 19,000+ sq ft production facility in Richmond Hill. In-house design, pre-press, production, kitting, fulfillment, and certified installation one team, one point of accountability, no brokered work. A creative print partner since 2011 to Porsche, McLaren, Subaru, Shiseido, Country Style, Shopify, and Hudson's Bay.