Welcome from St. Louis. :thumbup:
New guy.
Just thought I would say hey to all. I am an old contractor "57" been paintin for 37 years , done just about every thing in paint from comercial to home owners. I now am a one man band, every now and then I hire a helper/painter and remember why I am a one man band
. Had 8 men at one time working, made no money and lost most of my hair now I still don't have much hair but I do have a lot more money.
Enough complaining, This looks like a fun every one gets along board.
After 37 yrs I do find new technecks and new products that you can pick up on from other pro's like those that are here I am sure. As we all know painting is a never ending learning process for sure.
BenPaintingTooLong:thumbsup:
. Had 8 men at one time working, made no money and lost most of my hair now I still don't have much hair but I do have a lot more money.Enough complaining, This looks like a fun every one gets along board.
After 37 yrs I do find new technecks and new products that you can pick up on from other pro's like those that are here I am sure. As we all know painting is a never ending learning process for sure.
BenPaintingTooLong:thumbsup:
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Greetings from Florida
It was a different time in 1970 painters would race each other to have bragging rights to who was the fastest at painting a door or even a room
at the finish the work was inspected and if it was not up to pro standards it didn't count, you can't just have speed, you must have both speed and accuracy like a pro should have. Pride in our work was important and demanded.
Now it is hard to hire a painter with any real experience at all. I hired and fierd until I gave up. It is not worth the headache, I chose to go it alone about 15 years ago it works for me.
Theres is much more to be said and I will elaborate more later.
Heh, some of us still do this.
I think that there is really something to this post. It is also my observation that there is a general lack of pride (in ones work) these days. I know that there are some that do take great pride in their work, but it is a small percentage.It was a different time in 1970 painters would race each other to have bragging rights to who was the fastest at painting a door or even a room
at the finish the work was inspected and if it was not up to pro standards it didn't count, you can't just have speed, you must have both speed and accuracy like a pro should have. Pride in our work was important and demanded.
Now it is hard to hire a painter with any real experience at all. I hired and fierd until I gave up. It is not worth the headache, I chose to go it alone about 15 years ago it works for me.
Theres is much more to be said and I will elaborate more later.
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It is a balancing act of quality along with production. Doing so much new construction these days. My wife is letting me take her old glitchy digital camera to work because i want to post a few pics of what i get into.It was a different time in 1970 painters would race each other to have bragging rights to who was the fastest at painting a door or even a room
at the finish the work was inspected and if it was not up to pro standards it didn't count, you can't just have speed, you must have both speed and accuracy like a pro should have. Pride in our work was important and demanded.
Now it is hard to hire a painter with any real experience at all. I hired and fierd until I gave up. It is not worth the headache, I chose to go it alone about 15 years ago it works for me.
Theres is much more to be said and I will elaborate more later.
I have found that a lot of these guys that I hired over the years didn't know good prep, if any at all.That is where the no pride in there work shows up. They really didn't know they was doing something wrong by just grabbing up a paint brush and going at a door and jamb with out even looking at the putty, is the caulk cracked did the last painter paint over sand, carpet hair, no just get it painted, in re paints, and in new construction that kind of "painter" would not even have a clue how to go about prepping up a door jamb for paint, I say again good prep is more than half of a good painter.
It will be , my suggestion is to find a young guy preferably married that wants to learn the trade. Take him under your wing and teach him the right way, starting with that all important prep. I found it helped to ,after he thinks he has the caulk and putty down, and you have fine tuned most of the jambs, go ahead and spray them out and then take the novice to the door jamb you didn't fine tune and show him the difference, it is hard at first to have a good eye for detail before it is painted this will help for sure.
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