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After my last brilliant thread, a question arose in the deepest part of my being. I've heard "Ive been painting for 27 yrs." Well, I've known Many painters that said I been painting for XX years. Then you see them paint :eek:. Then you ask them "go get the cheater for me and then get the deuce and start putting the first hand on. :huh: So what brings me to my question. How many house's do you estimate you painted. this is really what one needs to be asked. Because I could have been painting for 13 yrs and only painted 13 house. So now the question waits for your answers.
 
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Hmmm that's a tough one.

Been painting for 9 years, but 2 of the companies I worked with did rather large projects. One taking 3 years. 4-5+ that took over 3 months. Although the numbers are small there, I think I learned the most from them.

In the end I would say I was on about 350-400 jobs.
 
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ewingpainting.net said:
After my last brilliant thread, a question arose in the deepest part of my being. I've heard "Ive been painting for 27 yrs." Well, I've known Many painters that said I been painting for XX years. Then you see them paint :eek:. Then you ask them "go get the cheater for me and then get the deuce and start putting the first hand on. :huh: So what brings me to my question. How many house's do you estimate you painted. this is really what one needs to be asked. Because I could have been painting for 13 yrs and only painted 13 house. So now the question waits for your answers.
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Hahaha!!!!
C'mon, you really expect me to trace back everything I have painted, do me a favour!!!! :rolleyes:

Army Barrack quarters, Police stations, railway stations, pubs/bars, womens refuge's, MOMI - museum of moving images in London, Egyptian Embassy etc, etc. I cannot tell you how many projects I have painted in London. Do you know how many working days are in 27 yrs?
I spent about 15yrs solely in London working while sub contracting to one company my Dad helped start up. The other years were bumming around two other companies, subbing.

Just the last five years (in my own company) have been residential and new build homes, function halls, x-ray dept in local hospital. It is endless my friend.

How much have you done in your short time holding a brush??? :whistling2:

I have probably forgotten more than you know! ;)

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Hi there, my name is Aaron and I am a broke college student so I thought I would start painting stuff to make some money for parties and beer. Here is my ad.
So far I have painted one house and they said I did a good job and was priced pretty reasonably at $15 an hour so I might try and paint a couple more this summer and then do some more next summer :whistling2::whistling2:
 
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mistcoat said:
Hahaha!!!!
How much have you done in your short time holding a brush??? :whistling2:

I have probably forgotten more than you know! ;)
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Your just a fire cracker, HUH.

Within the last 10 years I help build up a painting company in the Palm Springs area. When we started I was his painter preper all of the above. Then we moved to having ten guys, to 20, to 50, to up to 200 guys. I had 3 painting superintendent under me, under them were 15 foremen. The average for 60 hrs was one house getting painted. So if you figure when were at 200 guys we were painting roughly 26 houses a day. we stayed like that for two yrs before the market crashed.

So my friend you can do the rest of the math.
 
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ewingpainting.net said:
How many house's do you estimate you painted. this is really what one needs to be asked.
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:no: How many houses is no better than how many years. These are not the questions to get to someones skill set. Its not the quanitity of experience, its the quality of the experience. Figure out questions that reveal that. This is important for interviewing and assessing talent. What people say about their years of experience or how many houses they have painted is not it.
 
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ewingpainting.net said:
After my last brilliant thread, a question arose in the deepest part of my being. I've heard "Ive been painting for 27 yrs." Well, I've known Many painters that said I been painting for XX years. Then you see them paint :eek:. Then you ask them "go get the cheater for me and then get the deuce and start putting the first hand on. :huh: So what brings me to my question. How many house's do you estimate you painted. this is really what one needs to be asked. Because I could have been painting for 13 yrs and only painted 13 house. So now the question waits for your answers.
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:no: How many houses is no better than how many years. These are not the questions to get to someones skill set. Its not the quanitity of experience, its the quality of the experience. Figure out questions that reveal that. This is important for interviewing and assessing talent. What people say about their years of experience or how many houses they have painted is not it.
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Good point, I don't ask any of my guys how many, actually I don't ask them to much. I want to see, because word are words, until you do what you say you can do then it puts meaning behind those words.
 
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ewingpainting.net said:
Your just a fire cracker, HUH.

Within the last 10 years I help build up a painting company in the Palm Springs area. When we started I was his painter preper all of the above. Then we moved to having ten guys, to 20, to 50, to up to 200 guys. I had 3 painting superintendent under me, under them were 15 foremen. The average for 60 hrs was one house getting painted. So if you figure when were at 200 guys we were painting roughly 26 houses a day. we stayed like that for two yrs before the market crashed.

So my friend you can do the rest of the math.
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That is all fine and dandy... But I'm sure the question you asked below was...

ewingpainting.net said:
How many house's do you estimate you painted. this is really what one needs to be asked.
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I think "you" was the operative word... how many houses have "you" painted ewing, not "your" men???

P'raps you should be asking "your men" how many homes they've painted, not us :whistling2: :thumbup:

Me... I've painted many hundreds, if not thousands of different projects.

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