8 excuses not to hire a professional painter and why we think you should!

1.     I don’t have time.  We can make this as effortless and time efficient as possible for you. How?  As a professional painting contractor, we can make arrangements for key drop off and pick up, making your home or business turn-key ready. We appreciate the client moving as much as they can but we understand that is not always possible.   For a small fee, we can prepare the site for painting, including moving furniture and picture frames, as well as return the site to the original set up.  You could go away on holidays and come back to a whole new restored place without any hassle.  Hire a professional painting contractor today. Simple.

2.     I don’t have colors selected.  We welcome color selections from interior designers.  Not sure who to call?  We have a list of interior designers who would gladly assist you in choosing the exact color to make your space work best for you.  We can even do a test patch, allowing you to see your color in your environment in varying light conditions.  Plan, test and get it right the first time.

3.     It is too messy.  We use industry standards to keep your business or home as clean as possible.  As a professional painting contractor, we are careful to protect your belongings by covering them with sheets or plastic to prevent dust or paint from affecting them. We take full responsibility for the safety of our client’s furniture or personal belongings. Our professional staff come with over 10 years of experience and is fully equipped to do the job for you.  Our goal is customer satisfaction and keeping your home or business clean is important to us.  Any mess is temporary.  We vacuum, clean, sweep or wipe before during and after our work.  We want to make sure everything is clean before starting the actual painting to obtain the best results for you.   We are sure to leave the worksite clean after the job is done.  We keep it clean.

4.     It is expensive.  Nothing is more expensive than having to replace walls or structures because they were inadequately sealed.  In business, it only takes a minute for people to make their first impression of you.  Can you afford to not be at your best?  We strive to give you the best value for your dollar, choosing the best quality paint because of its distinct look and durability and paint using efficient techniques, making our service cost effective. We do all the work, allowing you to work at what you do best or to enjoy life at its best. What costs can you put on feeling happier in your own home or business? It is expensive not to.

5.     It is smelly.  We can use fast drying paint with low emissions to reduce odours and the effects on the environment.  We use natural ventilation whenever possible.  We do our best to provide you with quality materials in water-based, oil-based, stains, varnishes and paint.  As a professional painting contractor, we do everything we can to reduce and eliminate this problem by careful planning.  Plan.

6.     I don’t know anyone I trust.  Let us provide you with a list of references.  Speak to our previous clients honestly about our commitment to customer satisfaction and quality work.  99 % of our clients are happy with our services.  We stand behind our products and services as a professional painting contractor. You can trust us to get the job done professionally, on time and within budget. Trust us.

7.     I don’t know how.  Let us guide you through the steps.  If you have 100 ideas or just 1, we can help you develop your ideas into a tangible realisable project.  How?  By listening to your ideas and offering our recommendations to you, based on our years of experience in the painting and contracting fields. We come prepared to answer your questions and help you through your project.  All it takes is an initial phone call; leave the rest to us to get your project underway.  Just call.

8.     Why paint?  Painting has several purposes including to protect, to decorate and to beautify.  Painting protects and preserves surfaces from the harmful effects of the environment.  It thus preserves the value and adds to it.  Painting also provides a decorative coating, to allow a unified focal point to emerge or to create a background in your environment reflecting who you are.   

 Did you know? Section of interesting information about paint

1.     What is paint anyway?  Paint is a group of pigments that are emulsified and suspended into a liquid.

2.     When was paint invented?  It was first seen 30,000 years ago in cave dwellings intended to communicate graphically and decorate primitive homes.

3.     When did paint become popular?  In 1700, Thomas Child established the first paint mill in America in Boston MA.  In 1867, D.R. Averill from Ohio patented the first ready-mix paint that we know today.

4.     How much do we use? We spend @ 20.9 billion dollars annually in total sales of paint annually, based in 2006.

5.     What about lead paint?  Paint containing lead, started to be restricted in the 1950’s; a voluntary removal of lead in paint was done by the paint industry.  The official ban was made in 1978 by the Consumer Product and Safety Commission.  As a professional painting contractor, we want you to know there are brochures available from this group or the NCPA www.paint.org, which are available to homeowners online to help determine if they have lead based paint in their homes and what they can do about it.

6.     What about water-based paint?  This became popular in the 1950’s because of the ease of cleaning for rollers, brushers and painters.  Today, many paints are water-based, including architectural coatings.

7.     What about the environment?  In the past five years, emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC’s), have been reduced by 10%.