Calling on a Professional Painting Contractor for Exterior Painting can Save Homeowners Money
Fort Worth, TX (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 -- Hiring a painter for exterior painting in Fort Worth, Texas is one of the best choices that can be made when it comes to deciding to paint a house. That is, of course, other than the decision to paint it. Paint wears down over the years. It cracks. It peels. It fades. It stops doing what it was designed to do, which is help the house make beautiful as well as help protect the exterior of the house from the elements. If a homeowner were to trying painting their own house, the often end up costing themselves more than hiring a professional painting contractor. The reasoning behind this is multi-fold. As Supreme Painting is the premier house painter in the area, they have a number of items to consider before moving forward with a DIY house painting job.
Consider the tools that will be needed. Chance are, unless someone is a professional painter, they will need to buy a number of things in order to be able to paint their house. These items may include paint brushes, rollers, tape, paper or plastic to block off windows, doors, and trim, a sprayer, ladders, drop cloth, and more. That could easily add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars, depending on the quality of tools that are purchased. It is important to keep in mind that there is a big difference between a two dollar paint brush and a twenty dollar paint brush.
Established painting contractors typically buy in bulk and do enough business with paint vendors that they get better prices on paint than most consumers would buying off the shelf. This savings should then be passed along to the consumer. It is important that all paint be purchased and mixed from the same lot in order to insure a consistency in color and sheen. That paint needs to be used relatively quickly, too. If it sits around for weeks as someone tries to complete painting their home over the course of several weekends, the paint can breakdown and fail to mix properly. This is especially true if the paint is stored in a garage or shed, where the hot Texas temperatures will speed up the process.
There are many pitfalls of painting that many novices will not learn until it is too late. For example, if it is too humid, the paint will not stick right. If it is too hot or too cold, the paint is going to have problems as well. What kind of paint and surface is going to be painted over can make a big difference as well. When people make mistakes painting, it usually does not show up right away. It is days, weeks, even months later when the bubbling, cracking and peeling begins. Then, the paint needs to be stripped off and the entire process started again. It is at that point when many homeowners will call a professional painting contractor, but they then end up spending money to do the same job twice.
Dalton Tomlinson, Supreme Painting, http://www.supremepainting.net/, (817) 457-9353, [email protected]
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