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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 apologising…
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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…
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Painting Franchise vs Independent: Which Is Right
Somebody deciding to start a painting business now faces a question that did not really exist a generation ago: build your own, or buy into…
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Painting Business Succession Plan: If You Stop
Succession sounds like a problem for large companies and for people close to retirement. For a painting business it is a much more immediate question…
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How to Sell a Painting Business: The Process
Most painting businesses are never sold. They are closed, quietly, when the owner stops, and whatever was built goes with them. That is not usually…
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Restaurant Painting Projects: Working Between Services
A restaurant is the most constrained interior a painter regularly meets. It cannot close, the surfaces are contaminated in ways no domestic wall ever is,…
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Hotel Painting Projects: Working Around Paying Guests
Every hotel room you are standing in is a room that is not being sold. That single fact drives almost everything about how this work…
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School Painting Contracts: Working to the Summer Window
School work is attractive for reasons that are easy to see: large simple surfaces, repeat budgets, an institution that pays reliably, and a client who…
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HOA Painting Projects: Working With a Board
An HOA repaint looks like the best kind of work: a large predictable scope, several buildings, one point of contact and a client who has…