PrOhio Painting 101

When people call a plumber they automatically know they're paying for them to just come and take a look at your plumbing, and tell you what's wrong. Then, they know that if he actually fixes your issue, it's going to be several hundred dollars for just a couple of hours. If it takes days, you're going to be looking at several 1000. When remediation and cleanup companies come out and do mold remediation and removal it's well over 5 grand or more for a few days work. Carpentry-few grand for a few days, remodeling-few grand for a few days, TV repairmen-few hundred for a few hours, appliance repairmen-few hundred for a few hours, carpet installation-several hundred for a few hours, and the list goes on. However, when a painter comes looks at your house to tell you what it will take, people think it should be, and it typically is, free. But they also think that painters should come in, paint their entire home, which can take several days depending the size of the home, and do the work for a couple to a few hundred dollars. I don't understand what has happene to make people think this way but it is like a slap in the face to go estimate someone's home and them wanting their entire house painted and think that it should cost them a couple hundred dollars to do so. Painting is one of the hardest jobs there is in the construction industry due to it's tediousness. It's certainly one of, if not the most, noticeable job you can have done. It's overall the job that makes your home look great or not. You could have had a great carpenter do the carpentry work, but if it isn't painted right, now painted at all, it will not look all that great. If your plumbing was fixed, you can't see it, so was it really? Painting, it shows, and you'll know if the job looks good or not. Now, there is certainly a better way to approach a painting project that can make it not only look great but make it last longer. It is the most overlooked, underrated constuction job out there, and I really wish people would give us painter the respect that we deserve. Heck, the cost of paint alone is high dollar. So why would material be so expensive and yet the labor be so cheap? It isn't. Fact is, painting is very hard work. That's why your local hardware, and home improvement stores have every installation crew known to man but yet none have a painting crew. I was by no means being disrespectful during this blog post, I was just mentioning the obvious to gain painters their respect back. It's just a post to get people who want painting done to understand the nature of the job and how hard it actually is, and that it should not be considered an easy task that does not pay much, it's actually what makes your home it's most beautiful. So please, if you are looking to have your home painted, just know that it should not be done for little to nothing, it will most likely take several thousand to have your entire home painted, RIGHT. Thanks for reading, no disrespect intended, and until next time, Happy Painting!