Keep Your Painting And Decorating Prices Down To The Lowest Prices Possible Without Having To Cut Any Corners On Painting.
Being a competitively priced painter and decorator in the residential painting and decorating industry, we naturally do a lot of talking about all types of Painting And Decorating Prices for all types of interior painting and exterior painting on all types of residential, commercial, and industrial interior and exterior properties.
A lot can be said about painting decorating and painting and decorating prices by a professional painter and decorator that might help you save time and money on painting and decorating. All of course from a group of professional painting and decorating Calgary Painters that know all the tips and tricks to painting and decorating that will help your interior or exterior look it's very best it can again.
The first thing to be said is that in the big picture of the painting world you shouldn't be making painting and decorating prices as your first concern. You can pay top dollar and hire the wrong painter and wreck your interior or your exterior.
You can also pay much lower price for painting and get an extremely super high quality paint job from a good painter that charges a lot less. Your first concern should be making contact with many painters and getting as many free painting estimate and free painting price quotes as you can.
You will hopefully meet plenty of painters that will actually complete the painting work and get a vibe and feel for each painter. This is the best way to get in person and up front painting and decorating prices. And of course you likely get to meet your painters too.
Each and every one of the painters, painting companies and painting contractors you call in for a free painting estimate or a free painting price quote will see the same job you have in mind his or her own way. As a result prices will vary depending on how the paint will be installed. The biggest thing that will effect the painting and decorating prices on repainting is the current color of the surfaces and the new color that you have in mind.
You should be thinking about having the painter you hire complete a full prime and double coat paint job on all surfaces. It's safe business for the painter and it's safe business for you. Your paint job will look much better in the end with a primer coat painted down first and that will certainly cost you more in painting and decorating prices painting for the painter to fetch and prime everything out. There is a reason smart painters always say a great paint job starts with a good prime job first. It's true.
The best paint jobs start with a good primer spray job where possible. Going back to the each painter will see the job a different way, we prefer to spray paint primer and spray paint into place on most surfaces where ever possible.
On new construction we can generally get away with spray painting primer on all of ceilings, walls, and trim and finish painting the ceilings and trim with the spray machine. After the first coat of primer and paint has been sprayed onto the walls we finish up the walls with a coat of brush and roller on new construction.
On repaints we can get away with spray painting all types of ceilings and all types of trim over top of all types of flooring. Where possible we would spray paint primer and spray paint paint onto your ceilings.
Then we would spray paint primer and spray paint paint onto all of your trim. When we say trim we mean your baseboards, door frames, window frames, railings, caps, hand rails, chair guard, etc. If it's not drywall or the floor it's trim and we spray paint it all quick and easy to professional perfect finishes.
As a painter and as the customer, it pays dividends to take a good look around your home interior to determined if a classic brush and roll job on everything is the way to go, or it's a higher quality interior in excellent shape that will benefit from a new spray painting finish on the ceilings and trim.
Followed up by the classic brush and roll on the walls. If your house or home is roughly lived in and in poor shape there is no point in pulling out the spray machine for much when it's not really going to make much of a difference.
Colors effect the look and feel and vibe of your interior and also determined the cost of the paint. The good rule of thumb we like to use is colors cost. White paint is cheaper than black paint. You pay for color. Painting over existing colors with darker colors is always an easy type of paint job.
Painting lighter colors over darker colors will take three or four or more coats of paint to get everything looking solid and consistent. Even with a primer coat, the old color and the new color you are aiming for can cost you more than you would expect.
If you have watched a lot of YouTube videos about interior painting such as house painting you probably noticed a lot of painters patch the dents and dings and scratches and nail holes in the walls before they prime or paint.
While this might sound and look like simple common sense that makes sense, in practice it's really the wrong move. You will always miss something you will discover when you are brushing and rolling in your first coat of primer or your first coat of paint. Then you will have to jump back into the mud or spackle filler and wait for it to dry before sanding and spot priming and continuing on with your painting.
You can never miss a dent or a ding or a scratch or a hole in the wall if you paint over it once or twice with primer or paint. Putting on a complete coat of primer or a complete coat of paint before patching and repairing makes for much easier repairs.
It's easier to see every cent, ding, scratch, hole, or blemish you couldn't see and it's much easier to complete hundreds of repairs in under an hour. Almost anyone can do a much better job of getting all the repairs found and addressed with a coat or two of primer or paint installed first. You simply can't do a more thorough job taking a shot at trying to get everything out.
A lot of professional interior painters charge big money for simple and easy to complete repairs. Not too many houses or homes or interiors out there really need a whole lot of repairs on them. Yes of course some so but those are few and far between.
On the average house out there that out professional painters see, almost all of the drywall patching is completed in under one hour. Some deep scratches, dents, dings, holes, and blemishes might take two coats of mud or three coats of mud to get filled completely and flat.
It's never a good idea to rush any type of drywall repairs. It's always a good idea to take your time. Where ever possible it's best to take the whole day to find and patch everything as it stands in natural daylight for the best results.
Three coat complete paint jobs should be the norm when you call in a painter. We paint several hundred houses per year and paint out a fair amount of paint on a fair amount of different surfaces. It's always a shame when a customer tries to get away with pulling off an incomplete paint job only to have it be so obvious in the end the full and complete paint job was the way to go.
If your in the market for painting, the best results will be with a fresh new coat or two or three on everything. That's how you get those showroom quality interior results on repaints, renovation painting, and new construction house painting. Most customers go with two coats on everything that looks good but pass up the third coat that gets it done better.
Of course that third coat is going to cost you more money on your painting and decorating prices. It will cost you more in primer or paint or both, and it will cost you more money to your painter, painting contractor, or painting company for the manual painting labor required for the third coat.
You might notice that renovation painting and new construction painting are usually also completed by priming everything and then applying two coats or more of paint. Well, that's exactly how you get a showroom quality interior. If your painter or decorator is not sharing the same information with you maybe it's time you look elsewhere.
Available working hours that you will allow the painter, painting contractors, painting companies employees, or the painters into your home or around your home for painting will also have a say in most painting and decorating final costs and final prices.
Most painters and decorators show up to work every day for a full 8 hour work day. That includes a paid or unpaid 30 minutes lunch breach and a couple of 15 minutes breaks. Most painters don't get paid the full day if they only get half a work day or a 6 hour day in because of when you can accommodate the painters.
Most painters can adjust and adapt to any schedule that you want. It will simply cost you more money because it costs your painters more money. If you budget and plan around a 8 to 10 hour work day for the painters when they show up you will likely see more work completed and the painters will get out of your home sooner.
If you are generous with the cash and coin most painters won't have any issue accommodating what ever schedule you might have in mind. On the other hand, delaying a job and making it take longer at the painters expense make the painters know there is easier money elsewhere and it doesn't cost so much time or money to make it on those other jobs. Just saying your painters might rush and skimp on the higher quality details.
Clean houses and houses and property interiors make for better painting. Your paint job will turn out better and get completed faster if your interior is clean, neat, and tidy. Help your painter out by dusting off the tops of the baseboards and window frames and door frames and the tops of any surfaces that catch a lot of dust and don't see a lot of cleaning.
Most painters are clean painters and can give you your house or home back as clean as or even cleaner than you turned it over to a painter. It will always cost you more for painting if your house or home interior or exterior is dirty. You can save a couple of bucks by having your home ready, tidy, clean, and neat and get it back the exact same way with your new colors installed.
Everyone likes a great paint job and a happy customer and a happy painter. Most painters are on the clock and making money for the painting company that they work for. It's ok to ask questions about the job and stay friendly with your painters but do your best not to keep them from working.
Many interior and exterior painting customers like to stay friendly and chat with the painters or team of painters at the start of each morning. Be sure to keep it light. A half hour per day holding up 3 painters adds up to almost a full working day in lost labor.
That's a couple hundred bucks out of the pockets of the hard working painters, and several hundred dollars out of the painting contractors profits just to stay friendly. Can talk about anything you want at any time as long as you the customer pays.
Adding in more additional work towards the end of the job or at the end of the job when you had the option before the painting commenced can be costly. Most painters and decorators have more than enough work coming there way and some even have a schedule to keep.
Most painters we know just simply have no reason to try to put work on you that you don't need or to give you bad advice. If you opt out of a complete paint job at the start of the job, and then take on significant add ons to the end of the job, you should certainly expect that this will have an impact on painting and decorating prices.
Just about anyone can paint and decorate. The difference between your painting and a professional painters painting is plenty of practice and hundreds of paint jobs. Practice us what makes painters faster and more efficient at their jobs.
Older and more experienced painters are likely to have the experience of seeing a job completed to the highest in professional painting standards. Not saying a younger painter can't have all the hands on experience needed to paint you out a new hot looking paint job.
Just saying older painters with a couple decades of painting simply have more professional house painting experience and might help keep your total painting and decorating costs down lower.
Hope that helps. For the best in interior painting and the best in exterior painting for your house or home consider giving 1/2 Price Pro Calgary Painting a call. Every year we help about a hundred or so lucky painting customers and lucky painting clients get painted and sign off on the happy customer line on the completed house painting contract.
We are sure we can help you and your house and home and property too. Any time is a good time to paint. Our painters and painting contractors and out entire painting company is behind your next best house painting finish.
