Painting Business - How to Choose The Right Paints for Painting Business Success
Finding the right paints for your painting business will make a big difference in your overall performance in the long run.
For example: maybe you have a commercial painting business and you need high-speed painting products that you can spray and back-roll. You want to find products that are not only low-cost, but offer the least amount of labor time to apply and are still high enough in quality.
In my painting business I do mostly re-paints (existing residential or commercial painting). When it comes to someone's home, they usually want first class paint. The paint I currently use for walls is not only a first class product but it also offers the least amount of work to make the job look good. (On tall walls it doesn't show lap lines like many latex paints do.)
It also took time to find a new ceiling paint to replace another brand I was happy with. This product isn't a fancy name brand, but it is not cheap either. But it does save a lot of head aches in labor time and looks good without leaving any lap marks etc.
Plus it dries fast and can be re-coated in just one hour. If you are doing just ceilings, you can get in and out of a home fast and make more money in less time. It takes time to find the right paint products that only you the painter can be happy with. Once I find a paint I like, I stay with it as long as it is around.
Enamel paints and primers for woodwork are important also. Finding a good satin finish paint in latex or alkyd that is easy to work with and looks great when finished is a big plus. When I trim out doors, interior and exterior, I want a product that levels good and that doesn't tack up between brush strokes.
You cannot go wrong with products like Benjamin Moore, Pratt and Lambert, Sherwin Williams, etc. But again, you need to find products that you personally like using. Just like paint brushes and roller covers, everyone has their own preferences. One painter swears by Purdy and another recommends Wooster.
I got a question from another painter today that asked what I thought about a certain "brand of paint" sold through a certain "national hardware chain". I told him that I got feedback from customers that tried this "certain pant" and said they were disappointed with the results.
Plus, I told him that wouldn't dare show up to a customer's home with anything less that a name brand paint.
Although a lot of people buy these popular hardware retail chain store brands and even swear by them, some painting customers will frown on spending money for a custom paint job and to see their painter using a "blue-light special" grade product VS a professional painter's paint product.
Without us knowing it, customers do talk among themselves. I soon found this out from using
off-brand paints from paint stores that are set up to serve low-end commercial painters even.
I even got warned once by a customer that he wanted Benjamin Moore paints on his walls and woodwork. I didn't argue with him! Back then I was in to using commercial low-cost paints that were made specifically for painters. Although it was a painter's paint store, and prices were lower, most of their paints were inferior as well as their brand name.
When it comes to paints and primers, you definitely get what you pay for. Plus I have found that the general public retail stores tend to mark up their paints higher than they would be for a similar grade at a paint store. (What they are selling for $25/gal could be found in a similar grade for only $16/gal. at Joe's Customer Colors Paints)
The only exception would be products that are found everywhere like Zinsser's "123" or "Bin". These are name brand products and they go for the same price everywhere.
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For example: maybe you have a commercial painting business and you need high-speed painting products that you can spray and back-roll. You want to find products that are not only low-cost, but offer the least amount of labor time to apply and are still high enough in quality.
In my painting business I do mostly re-paints (existing residential or commercial painting). When it comes to someone's home, they usually want first class paint. The paint I currently use for walls is not only a first class product but it also offers the least amount of work to make the job look good. (On tall walls it doesn't show lap lines like many latex paints do.)
It also took time to find a new ceiling paint to replace another brand I was happy with. This product isn't a fancy name brand, but it is not cheap either. But it does save a lot of head aches in labor time and looks good without leaving any lap marks etc.
Plus it dries fast and can be re-coated in just one hour. If you are doing just ceilings, you can get in and out of a home fast and make more money in less time. It takes time to find the right paint products that only you the painter can be happy with. Once I find a paint I like, I stay with it as long as it is around.
Enamel paints and primers for woodwork are important also. Finding a good satin finish paint in latex or alkyd that is easy to work with and looks great when finished is a big plus. When I trim out doors, interior and exterior, I want a product that levels good and that doesn't tack up between brush strokes.
You cannot go wrong with products like Benjamin Moore, Pratt and Lambert, Sherwin Williams, etc. But again, you need to find products that you personally like using. Just like paint brushes and roller covers, everyone has their own preferences. One painter swears by Purdy and another recommends Wooster.
I got a question from another painter today that asked what I thought about a certain "brand of paint" sold through a certain "national hardware chain". I told him that I got feedback from customers that tried this "certain pant" and said they were disappointed with the results.
Plus, I told him that wouldn't dare show up to a customer's home with anything less that a name brand paint.
Although a lot of people buy these popular hardware retail chain store brands and even swear by them, some painting customers will frown on spending money for a custom paint job and to see their painter using a "blue-light special" grade product VS a professional painter's paint product.
Without us knowing it, customers do talk among themselves. I soon found this out from using
off-brand paints from paint stores that are set up to serve low-end commercial painters even.
I even got warned once by a customer that he wanted Benjamin Moore paints on his walls and woodwork. I didn't argue with him! Back then I was in to using commercial low-cost paints that were made specifically for painters. Although it was a painter's paint store, and prices were lower, most of their paints were inferior as well as their brand name.
When it comes to paints and primers, you definitely get what you pay for. Plus I have found that the general public retail stores tend to mark up their paints higher than they would be for a similar grade at a paint store. (What they are selling for $25/gal could be found in a similar grade for only $16/gal. at Joe's Customer Colors Paints)
The only exception would be products that are found everywhere like Zinsser's "123" or "Bin". These are name brand products and they go for the same price everywhere.
Start Your Own High-Profit Painting Business Today: http://Painting-Business.com
(c) Copyright - Lee Cusano. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Painting Business
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