Painting Tips
Occupied Home Painting Checklist: Working Around People
Painting an empty house and painting a house somebody is living in are different jobs that happen to use the same skills. The empty one…
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Painting Material Order Checklist: Order Once, Correctly
Ordering materials looks like the simplest task in a painting business and it produces a surprising share of its problems: the wrong sheen, a colour…
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Painting Van Setup Checklist: Load Out and Restock
The second trip to the paint store is the most expensive routine event in a painting business. It costs the driver time, it costs the…
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Painting Equipment Maintenance Checklist: Daily to Annual
Equipment maintenance is not a virtue, it is a scheduling decision. Every tool a painting business owns will either be maintained on a schedule you…
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Painting Job Closeout Checklist: Finish the Job Properly
Closeout is the part of a painting job that has no obvious owner. The painting is finished, everyone is thinking about tomorrow, and a set…
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Painting Quality Control Checklist: Catch It Before They Do
Quality control that happens at the end of a job is not quality control. It is a defect list. By the time the crew has…
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New Construction Painting Checklist: Stage by Stage
New construction painting is not repainting with less scraping. It is a different job with a different rhythm, and the thing that catches repaint contractors…
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Commercial Painting Checklist: Access, Compliance and Handover
Painters who move from residential into commercial work usually find the painting is the easy part. The surfaces are larger and simpler, the colours are…
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Exterior Painting Checklist: Conditions, Prep and Coats
Exterior work has a variable interior work does not: the weather can make a technically perfect job fail. You can prep correctly, use the right…
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Interior Painting Checklist: Every Step in Order
A checklist is not a method. The method for an interior repaint is already settled, and if you want the reasoning behind each step it…