Painting Tips
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…
Painting Tips
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 colors 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…
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Painting Customer Intake Form: What to Ask Before Quoting
Most painters treat an enquiry as something to respond to as fast as possible and qualify later, usually while standing in the customer’s hallway. That…
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Painting Color Approval Form: Stop the Repaint Argument
There is one argument in painting that costs more than any other and has nothing to do with the quality of the work. It is…
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Painting Timesheet Template: Fields Worth Recording
Most painting timesheets record hours so that people can be paid. That is the least interesting thing a timesheet can do, and a business that…