Home owners and unlicensed contractors. Why not use an unlicensed contractor if you can save money? Hire Joe. Joe says he can do your job for half of the price you got from the licensed contractor you got a bid from. If one of the scenarios below plays out what can you do? You give…
Painting in cold or damp weather. First off, keep your paint at room temperature. Cold paint usually thickens and is hard to work with. You can thin it sparingly, knowing that as it warms up, it will become overly thin. This is important on days that the temperature is going to substantially warm up. Read…
How electrostatic painting works Electrostatic painting is an application method for painting metal. From gates and fences to file cabinets. Very little overspray allows painting in a finished environment. Offices, balconies and backyard pools are just a few of the areas the electrostatic painting is an advantage. The concept is to draw the paint…
Painting during the Monsoons is a day by day guessing game. You can’t always put off your painting project because it looks like rain. If you did you’d spend a lot of afternoons looking at sunny skies and having nothing to show for a day you should have been working. In most cases I’ve found…
As the weather gets hotter, paint dries faster. It becomes harder to provide a smooth finish in the heat and direct sunlight. When it’s practical try to plan your painting project for morning, evening or in the shade. Professionals know these things. They also know how to compensate for the heat and sun. A quality…
Ever have a crack in a wall or ceiling patched and the next thing you know it’s back? The surface is moving and forcing the patching material to bend or stretch pass what it is capable of. Most of the time it isn’t practical to tare into the wall and if you did, it may…
Maintaining wrought iron fences and gates in Arizona is simple. Don’t get any water on it. Even raw, unpainted metal will take a very long time to rust to the point of structural damage unless it’s exposed to more than the little rain we get here. Landscape water from sprinklers, water pooling at the base…
