Painting Tips
Roof Coating: Maintenance System, Not a Repair
Roof coatings are bought by people who have a leak and sold by people who know they should not be. That mismatch is the single…
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Pool Paint: Three Chemistries That Cannot Be Mixed
Painting a swimming pool is one of the few decorating jobs where getting the product choice wrong is not a matter of durability but of…
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Magnetic and Chalkboard Paint: Making Them Work
These two products get bought together, usually for a child bedroom, a home office or a kitchen wall, and they generate more disappointed customers than…
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Thermal Insulating Paint: What It Can and Cannot Do
Insulating paint is one of the few products in this trade where a painter is likely to be asked to endorse a claim they have…
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Anti Graffiti Coating: Sacrificial vs Permanent
Anti graffiti coatings are sold as a way to stop graffiti and they do nothing of the kind. What they do is change what happens…
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Intumescent Paint: What Painters Need to Know
Intumescent coatings are the one product a decorator can apply where getting it wrong is a life safety issue rather than a callback. That single…
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Elastomeric Coating: What It Does and Where It Fails
Elastomeric coatings get reached for whenever a masonry wall is cracking, and about half the time that is the wrong reason to use one. They…
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Painting Business Capacity Planning: How Much You Can Take
Most painting businesses do not plan capacity. They take work until they feel full, then take a bit more, then spend the busy months apologizing…
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Fire and Smoke Damage Painting: Sealing Before Coating
Smoke damage is the one situation where painting over the problem is not merely a shortcut, it is a guarantee of being called back. Soot…
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Insurance Restoration Painting: How the Work Differs
Restoration work looks like ordinary painting done after something went wrong, and the painting itself largely is. Everything around it is different: you are frequently…