604-PAINTER (604) 724-6837 Takes Note Of A Messy Painter
April 29th, 2009 by admin
Hi Deane
Further to our earlier conversation today regarding the notion that: “painting is messy”, I wanted to share with you what I have observed over the last 25 yrs in regards to this issue.
First off, *painting* per se, is not messy; *painters however, can be. It really just comes down to the attitude of the painter.
Prior to just having met you I completed a job for a young chiropractor who called me up in a panic at 9:45 one evening and told me she wanted to fire her painters who had created for her “a living knightmare”. She asked if I would come over the next morning to go over the job and counsel her on how to proceed. I agreed. (for a small fee of course).
As I pulled my truck up in front of her house I noticed a number of fresh cigarette butts conspicuously strewn about her front sidewalk. Messy I thought. As I approached her door I noticed some faint white footprints heading away from her home; drywall dust and yes, messy. I noticed some fresh overspray on her front door; messy. The painters it seemed had been courteous enough to spin the brushes and rollers outside but had not ventured far enough away from her abode to keep that area free from unwanted product. I hadn’t even entered the house yet but had given her crew life imprisonment for their egregious three strikes. I wonder what the inside has in store for me I thought.
I met “Satra” and walked through the job with her. This is what I pointed out to her. The painters had not used drop clothes, or IF they did in fact use them, they didn’t utilize their full potential, as evidenced by all the overspray on her hardwood floors and carpet. Messy. There was mud on the carpet; these guys had not worn any “interior” shoes. Messy. There was dust everywhere and paint overspray on her kitchen and bath countertops, stove and fridge. Messy. I found out that the painters had been there 8 days thus far and had taken down the doors of the kitchen cabinets the first hour of the first day on the job and had left them all on the kitchen counters where they remained. This I found particularly troublesome…to not enable a person to use their own kitchen counter-tops for more than a day was completely unacceptable. To add insult to injury they were’nt even stacked neatly, they were thrown on top of one another (without anything protecting them from scratching one another) half hazardly. Messy.
The Crew Kit area (the discreet spot in or outside a persons home where the painters lay claim to, in order to store their paint and tools) was, as it turns out, the living room. All the paint, trays, uncleaned roller sleeves and garbage was sitting there, right in the living room for yes, 8 days. Big time messy.
All the blinds were taken down the first day and carelessly placed on the floor in the hallway which had everyone in the house basically negotiating land mines. They were in the wrong spot and they were not even wrapped with their own chord the way any rookie *should be taught. Messy. (and dangerous)
The sad thing is that a lot of painters behave this way. Not at Vancouver’s Best Painters though, painters painting in the Vancouver area. Call: 604-PAINTER for all your painting needs or visit www.vancouversbestpainters.com
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