What Qualifies Me to Paint Houses?
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So just exactly what qualifies me to provide interior house painting instructions? I have been a professional house painter since 1970. I started painting as a child, and during college I made money painting during the summers. When I graduated in 1970, I painted many of the houses in my neighborhood, then moved on to paint other structures. I worked for other painting contractors and then started my own house painting business. I worked with professional house painters with varying degrees of experience, and with different methods of preparation and application of various types of home paint. I really don’t think that there is any question that I can’t answer about house painting. I have painted countless homes and commercial structures. I learned a great deal from other house painters, and I am always learning more. I am an expert on house painting preparation. In addition to learning from other professional house painters, I learned a great deal more just by preparing and painting myself. I can prepare any home for painting, including sealing cracks, holes, gaps and everything else involved in house painting preparation. I went through countless five gallon cans of joint compound and spackle and hundreds and hundreds of gallons of paint. I have painted with all types of house paint, including latex, oil, epoxy, zylene based and other coatings. I worked in body shops and repaired and painted cars and trucks. Car painting is a fine art. In addition to residential interior house painting, I have painted huge malls, churches, schools and factories. I once had over 2000 apartment units under contract. The apartments all had to be painted when tenants moved out. The apartment painting was a lot of fun. I have brushed, rolled, and sprayed my way through life. In short, I know how to paint, and it thrills me to help others learn how to do interior house painting in the best ways possible, and save a LOT of time in the process. I can also be very helpful to professional house painters and contractors. What drove me to put up this interior house painting blog was reading and seeing interior house painting instructions by others. Don’t get me wrong, there are some excellent instructions out there, all correct and useful for interior house painting jobs. But there is a lot of bad advice and misinformation. Also, much of what I have come across in interior house painting instructions is correct and good, but only TOO thorough. The instructions, if followed, will produce excellent results, but there are ways to really save time painting. I really want to help people to produce excellent, long lasting results, but also save time painting in the process. I hope I can be of some help to you.
13 Responses to “What Qualifies Me to Paint Houses?”
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April 24th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Nice post!! My girlfriend told me to suggest http://www.services4home.com because she got her bathrooms and kitchen painted by finding contractors in her area from that site. But once again great post and i agree with all of your tips as well!!
- Marj
September 12th, 2009 at 9:12 am
From a “house painters” prospective “professional painters” should have at least a couple of months training. Well experience is always what gives you the upper hand.
December 11th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I am agree in 100% , j start painting when j was 15 and after years working with paintes ower 50 of them i meet mayby 5 of them really were proffessional, my point is after 12 years painting myself day after day include saturdays , u cant get experiance if u dont get 1000 hrs dealing with brush,roller most important each house wall is not even.No ofence but painting industry is very hard and can get messi , so i believe passion to painting is key to serve ownest and last longing quality , speccially when come exterior work.Thank U for oppurtinity hawe my short review upload , j hope get some advice to make myself better and serve quality work.
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March 15th, 2010 at 12:25 am
What steps do you typically take before you would paint, for example, a residential new drywall wall?
November 28th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Picking house paint colors isn’t just difficult. It’s terrifying! Pick colors that are blah, and your house will seem flat and featureless. But if the colors you pick are too bold, they might overwhelm the architecture… and upset the neighbors.
December 20th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
I like the guy that says, you need a couple of months training…lol
I have the least amount of experience out of everyone in our company, yet I have been painting for over 14 years. Just funny.. thats all.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Hello,
interesting post. Did you use much in the way of mineral spirits as a child? My guess is that you were still using a lot of alkyd and oil based paints back then.
March 22nd, 2011 at 11:39 pm
You really have a lot of experience of painting
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April 30th, 2011 at 4:35 am
I know that it’s been awhile since you posted this, but I’m a painting contractor that is thinking about using Union workers. Have you found any benefit to using them? I really like the fact that they are pretty much always available and have had training, but are they worth the price and time setting up in your opinion. I figured you would have a trustworthy opinion. Thank you very much!
July 19th, 2011 at 9:54 am
I would say NO to union workers.. yes they are great and they will show up everyday.. BUT you will make life too easy for them.. You can find some real good painters for a lower hourly wage then union..plus you are going to drive your quotes way up, no beniefit at all going union.. only one who beniefits are the employees.. we pay our guys more than average but not as high as union.. and we have no seniority, If a guy can run a job better than you, sorry he becomes foreman and more money for him.. they want to work for you if they are apart of something great all around.. GOOD LUCK!
October 2nd, 2011 at 10:01 am
for me experience is the best teacher…