Finding and hiring skilled and talented and affordable local painters and decorators in your area to complete your interior painting or your exterior painting isn't exactly the easiest task for the typical potential painting customers and painting clients our there.
One of the better ways to find and hire local painters and decorators to complete professional residential and commercial painting and decorating services for interiors and exteriors is to simply call in all painters and decorators in your local area for those free painting estimates and free painting price quotes. Or call in some of the really good Calgary Painters at 1/2 Price Pro Calgary Painting.
Most if not all of your local area painters and local area decorators should be more than willing and more than happy to provide you a completely free interior or exterior residential or commercial painting or repainting estimate completely free of charge.
If you have the time and the patients, tapping into all of those free painting estimates and free painting price quotes your local area painters, painting company, painting contractors provides for free can help you get pricing for your painting and an idea of what your painters can and can't do for you. And of course some prices.
Some of the best ways to find some of the best local painters and local decorators in your area along the way is to pay attention to what your local painter or local decorator has to say about your painting. What you think might sound like good business and professional painting business can in actuality be not in your best interests - or worse yet - a complete waste of your time and money.
Painters, painting companies, painting contractors and decorators come in all types. These can roughly be broken down into residential painting, commercial painting, and industrial painting. Most of the time what will find is that not a whole lot of local painters and decorators out there really provide a full and complete residential, commercial, and industrial painting and decorating services.
As such, due diligence should be paid from the very start of your painting process to actually find the right painters to complete the specific painting and decorating services you might need completed, or are still in the early stages of consideration if you are going to go ahead with your interior or exterior paint job.
You could roughly break down residential painting, commercial painting, and industrial painting as house and home painting, bigger commercial property paintings such as entire residential tower buildings being painted inside and out, and industrial painting such as pipe painting, factory painting, plant painting, etc. Each type of residential, commercial, industrial painter brings his or her own unique skill set to the table but not all painters are created equal. Even painters will share that with you.
Be sure you go searching for the right painters and the right decorators from the start. The easiest way to do this is to simply define your type of painting. If you need your house interior painted or your house exterior painted then you likely want a high quality residential painter and decorator that specializes in residential new construction painting and residential repainting.
Commercial painting companies and commercial painters tend to take on larger types of both interior painting projects and exterior painting projects. You would see these types of painters painting out huge new tower buildings, shopping malls and shopping centers, the local university, hospitals, schools, or an entire townhouse complex, or a full condo building.
Industrial painting contractors and industrial painters would be seen on larger types of projects. You could think factory painting, or oil pipeline painting, huge warehouse painting, various types of industrial plants, etc. You might see an industrial painter painting a huge oil and gas vat for the oil industry or miles and miles and miles of oil pipes. The sky is the limit, but industrial painting jobs tend to be substantially bigger painting projects that might take half a dozen years to complete before restarting again.
For the most part this local painters and decorators blog post covers residential interior and exterior painting. Not all of the local painters you are about to meet will have the same set of skills or see the job that you want completed the same way. Not all local painters and local decorators will use the same painting tools, the same type of primer, paint, stain, lacquer, or painting supplies etc.
It's very important that you pay attention to the over all condition of your house or home interior or exterior before you call in all the local painters, painting companies, painting companies, and the local painter around the corner for a free painting estimate or a free painting price quote.
Be it interior or exterior, the easiest way to put it is, do your house or home and yourself a good one and go with a full and complete interior repaint or a full and complete exterior repaint if that is an option and a possibility for your house or home interior or exterior. A full and complete interior paint job or a full and complete exterior painting job is the best way to get the best painting results, the best value for your dollar, and the best way to better enjoy your about to be new paint job.
If a complete interior make over and a complete exterior make over is in the cards and in the painting budget you can add substantial new instant home value to your house or home. Even your closest and most trusted realtor will tell you all about how a super high quality looking interior or a bold and excellent looking exterior adds home value. Doubling up added home value from simple interior painting and exterior painting is the best bet for your house and home.
Why not get some financial gain on throwing down thousands of dollars and possibly tens of thousands of dollars on your paint job. Depending on what condition and shape your current interior or exterior surfaces are in today you could at least get your money in on painting back out in increased home value and satisfaction. And if your home is in really rough shape you could be adding tens of thousands of dollars back in estimated home appraiser estimates on your home.
Painting is a hard job. Eating primer, paint, and lacquer all day for days and days can take its toll on even the toughest of painters. Most painters and decorators out there with even a couple of years of experience will know that brushing, rolling, and spray painting primer, spray painting paint, and spray painting lacquer and ceiling texture is an every day part of painting and decorating.
Most painters will also tell you it takes dozens of jobs of practice over months and months and years and years to perfect the art of painting. Doesn't matter if you brush it, roll it, or spray it, leaving a professional finish on the final coat is always the most important. What happens from the start to the end doesn't really matter it's the final finished product that you the customer see that does matter.
No painters and no decorators out there really know what type of surfaces your interior or exterior are painted in if they are currently painted. Yes a painter can make an educated guess and there are means and ways and tests available to determined if your interior surfaces are latex based or oil based. This is one of the things you or your painting contractor or painter or painting company should be determining right from the start of the estimate process.
Professional interior painters and professional exterior painters that paint in the residential painting, commercial painting, industrial painting and decorating services know that all great looking paint jobs, and all long lasting paint jobs start with a good coat of primer for the appropriate surfaces before the paint starts flying.
Priming all of your interior and priming all of your exterior is good and sound painting business for yourself and your house and home and your local painters and decorator. There is a huge list of reasons that you should be priming all of your interior and all of your exterior before you start painting paint onto the primer. The best two reasons are its completely safe painting business for everyone involved, and you will get noticeably better looking results priming first and then painting.
Of course you will pay more for your interior paint jobs and more again for your exterior paint job. The cost of the primer or various types of primer are likely to be substantial. Painters and decorators don't like working for free, even if they are local, and as such, it's obviously going to take your painter or painters or painting company or painting contractors hours to prime your surfaces.
After the primer is installed, it's always a great time to look, find, patch, fill, and repair all types of scratches, dents, dings, nail holes, blisters, popped drywall tapes, etc. A lot of painters and decorators will go with the old school method of doing repairs before the primer is installed, but all painters and decorators know you always miss something or many things, and they always show up on the primer coat.
Lot of painters and decorators out there charge for drywall repairs and general types of scratches, dents, dings, etc that your house or home interior or exterior may have. While every hour or home may be different, and in different shape and condition, and even built differently and to higher standards or to lower standards, every house or home interior or exterior is going to have some blemishes that need a little bit of tlc.
When there is no huge damage type of repairs that are going to take days and days and days to resolve, etc, it should not take a professional painter or decorator any longer than a full day to patch of your interior. Unless you have a huge house or a very rough and heavily lived in home with tons of drywall and ceilings and trim damage, it should not take longer than a day to patch the interior and a second day to patch the exterior.
Ask your local painters to be kind and allow you to inspect all of the surfaces on the interior and exterior of your house or home before they sand down and grind away all of the spackle or drywall mud. Despite your painter taking there time and finding hundreds, and sometimes thousands of patches to be repaired, your painter, painting companies, painting contractor, or painters may have missed a few spots that could use a little bit of attention.
You might have recently read somewhere that starting off any interior painting project or any exterior painting project by priming all of your surfaces is the safest way to paint, and the type of paint job that will apparently give you the highest in quality type of interior painting results and exterior painting results. It's true. Primer makes your paint finishes look better. Use primer first where possible.
Another thing about installing primer and installing paint on an interior paint job or an exterior painting job or a combination of a complete exterior and interior repaint make over is that how your painter or painting contractor or painting company installs your primer or your paint products will determined how excellent your interior painting or exterior painting will look or won't look.
When you meet all those local decorators and the local painter in your neighborhood be sure you are indeed painting attention to what they say about how they will prime and paint the various surfaces on your exterior and again on your interior. Small and simple details about what primer and paint products will be brushed, rolled, and sprayed into place are extremely important in the over all painting results you will be looking at for some time to come.
It will be best if you take your time meeting each individual painter, painting company, or painting contractor instead of arranging to meet them all at once. Hopefully you will make it easy on your painter from the very start and tell them all you want all of your ceilings and trim spray primed and spray painted and then you want your walls brushed and rolled. That's how the pros of the professional painters do it.
On the exterior you generally speaking want all of your siding to be spray painted and your trim to be brushed and rolled. Some potential painting customers and some potential painting clients opt in for both sprayed siding and sprayed trim. Always worth the extra money and time to complete.
When your potential painter, painting contractor, or painting company starts going on and on and on again about brushing and rolling your interior ceilings, trim, and walls, followed by brushing and rolling in everything on your exterior you very likely are dealing with the wrong painting company, painting contractor, or painter.
Not saying you can't get ok to satisfactory to good results with the good old brush and roller finish, because you absolutely can get good results by your painter brushing in and rolling in a couple of coats of primer and a couple more coats of paint. Simply saying spray painting everything that can be spray painted provides better results for many reasons.
Hopefully your local painters give it to you straight and recommend that you spray prime and spray paint in all of your ceilings and trims on your interior and then finish up with brushing and rolling in the primer and brushing and rolling in a couple of coats of paint on your walls. That's the type of pro of the professional interior painter and interior painting talk you should expect to be hearing from your local interior painter.
Most painters and decorators know when a painter says trim it means all of the trim finishing inside of your home where ever possible. This includes baseboards, door frames, window frames, doors, hand railings, etc. It typically does not include kitchen cupboards or shelves inside of your interior closets etc.
If that is not the type of painting talk you are hearing from your painting contractor you might have the wrong painter and the wrong approach to painting. Spray in the ceilings and the trim, and follow up with brushing and rolling the walls is pretty much what you should be hearing from your professional painter for the inside of your interior.
On the outside it's more or less the same. Spray prime and spray paint in all of the siding and then brush and roll in the exterior trim. Not saying brushing and rolling in exterior siding doesn't do too bad of a job, but simply am saying spray painting provides superior protection by applying more paint to the surface, and finishes up really nice and very flat with a well spray painted painting finish.
When that doesn't sound like your exterior painting contractor you might have the wrong painter in mind. Spray painting provides the best looking results, the longest lasting results, and when it comes down to the actual act of painting your exterior, it's the least labor intensive type of painting there is. Preparation for spray painting and the additional usage of more paint will cost you more but the results are worth it.
On the primer and paint subject, each and every one of the local decorators including the local painter you might soon meet will all have their own preference and recommendations to suggest for primer and paint products as well as individual painting supplies. Unless money is no object, shoot for a medium range grade of paint. Your professional interior painter and professional exterior painter should have suggestions.
In our part of the world, a gallon of good primer and good paint will run you $15 per gallon for primer, and another $20 per gallon on the paint. You should not be entertaining any type of interior primer or paint products that are costing you more than $100 per 5 gallon pail unless there is a specific reason or a particular brand selected.
On the outside, exterior paint is generally higher quality paint than you typically see on interiors. A gallon of good exterior paint that will last you a decade or two decades or longer on your exterior will generally set you back $30 to $35 per gallon depending on the colors you pick.
