All Things Painting

The Importance of Being Sealed

If you have been following our posts for any time, you may have noticed us hammering away on the importance of properly sealing your home – both inside and out.  The reason for caulking the outside of your home is a little easier to see – if you have ‘holes’ in your exterior coating water can

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paint quality

Surfactants, extenders and fillers; Oh my! The long-term cost of using inferior paint.

Recently, we talked about how paint quality can affect the cost of your paint job, driving up the immediate cost of your project. But there is another way paint quality influences your pocketbook – long-term costs. There are several areas that have to balance in order to make quality paint: spreadability – how easily the

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Spending more to get less – how cheaper paint can cost you more

People often ask us why we insist on using more expensive, high-quality paint to do our jobs. Their theory is if we used less expensive paint our costs would be less and, therefore, we could charge less. In practice, however, nothing could be less true. There are many ways to dissect this question and we’ll

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Humidity, cool fall nights and surfactant leaching – or how to make a great paint job look awful

Last week I recieved a phone call from one of our customers.  We had painted her house a couple weeks ago (and it turned out GREAT) and a few days after we finished she noticed she had some discolorization on her house.  She described it as ‘spots, kind of like when cement cures.’  I was flumoxed

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