There are many reasons why you should engage a professional painting service instead of trying to attempt painting yourself. Painting a whole house or interior by yourself can be tough work if you are not a trained paint worker. Not only does painting require physical strength in holding up roller brushes, moving ladders, climbing high and low to reach certain heights or corners of the house, sustaining the back and forth movements of brushing, etc, it also requires extreme patience and advanced painting skills, techniques and tactics that could only be acquired over the years of painting experience to bring about quality & lasting result.
Professional Quality & Painting Standards
The painters we hire have more than 10 years of painting houses, buildings, offices, factories, etc in Singapore. You can count on us in our painting skills and knowledge of paint and its applications on different materials and substrates. We know what is best for your homes and offices.
Painting Preparation works
Getting ready the substrate surface for painting is not as simple as just wiping clean the walls or surface of dust. In order for the primer and top coat of colored paint to adhere well to the substrate, the substrate foundation must not only be cleaned and be free from dust, particles and dirt, it must also be even out so that the paint coat can be uniform and no lumps, bumps or dents can be seen after the paint layer has been affixed on the surface. A professional painting contractor will carry with them the necessary tools and machinery to plaster up the cracks or minor crevices that may be seen on the walls. They will also fill up small cavities and dents that have resulted from peeled or chipped off paint or spalling concrete from the ceiling areas, to smoothen out the surface and to improve paint adhesiveness. They will also sand down bumps or any hard paint blobs that may have been carelessly over sighted by the previous paint job done. For exterior walls of landed properties and commercial buildings, power wash by using strong water jets in cleaning up or grinding down external masonry works is necessary, as the kind of dirt and mud deposits on exterior walls often leave globules so hard they are unable to be removed by just manual sanding down.
Painting techniques
The paint workers come with years of painting expertise in all kinds of residential and commercial projects. They know how the condition of the environment will affect paint and primer drying times and when to apply the next coat to ensure optimal result. They know when it is too early or too late in opening a paint can, how long and how many strokes to stir the paint with before you dab in the brush, how much paint to pick up before smearing it on the wall surface, when is the stroke considered too dry or too wet? etc. When using paint brushes or roller brushes, how many back and forth strokes of paint is needed before a patch is considered even done or too thick? How do you continue painting seamlessly from where you have last stopped painting after a lunch break or the next day?
These may seem trivial to most painting lay men, however very often, it is these details and small steps that are answers to why most DIY painting jobs are not as well done and do not last as long. These are the questions you should ask yourself first before trying to paint on your own; do you want to save the money to hire professionals but risk having to spend more time, effort and money should your painting fail on you?
Painting Work Efficiency
The painting sequence and steps is also very critical to the quality of the painting work. If you do not do regular painting, even if you do know how to strategize when to paint what, you may not have the resources in carrying out some of the phases that could be done concurrently by different persons. Hiring a professional painting company will assure you of this aspect; as much as you would like minimal painting time to complete the job, most painting contractors will supply the ideal manpower to finish the job at the appropriate pace in the fastest time possible. Because of the painting skill sets they have, they could have completed the same painting job in 2 days that would have taken you more than a week due to you not being as experienced or competent or busy schedule.
Saves you from strenuous work
Painting walls, doors & ceilings are not as simple as just strokes of paint. You require the physical strength and the willpower to continue with the back and forth strokes that make the paint application even on the surfaces. You are to work against gravity on the huge ceiling area throughout and also to reach spots that are at a height. If you are not able to control paint well, you may end up getting paint dripping down the pole handle and your hands; your sticky stained hands may then also end up smearing furniture or walls you absolutely do not want to!
The glossy paints you use on wooden doors, or sanitary pipes painting are very different from the paint you apply on walls. The results they give often comes with low sheen, semi-gloss or high gloss as it comes with protection for the wood and PVC substrates that provides resistance to staining and also to facilitate easier cleaning. The enamel in this kind of paint is the one that gives the paint a glassy, reflective finish; it is also the component that makes the paint heavier to maneuver in application. Therefore, if you do not have sufficient patience or strength, or not in good control, such paints may give you an uneven and tacky result which can be very obvious due to the high sheen that highlights the flaws.
Saves Time
If you engage a professional painting company to paint your home, you will not need to take time off your busy schedule to do it yourself. You do not know for sure how fast you will be able to complete painting your house; hence taking a few days off work seems inevitable. Leaves are precious to all working Singaporeans considering the limited number of days you can apply for the entire year. Wouldn’t you want to spend them doing things that you like better like with your family or loved ones instead of a tedious painting job that could easily be done in 1 or 2 days by a professional painting contractor? For those days when the painters are around, most of you do not even need to be around; simply get your stay home parents or spouse, a friend, or a trusted neighbor to watch your house while the painters work. Even If there is no one who is able to help guard your house and you have to keep an eye on the painters yourself, it is just a couple of days of leave that you will need to apply instead of say, a whole week.
As mentioned, most of us are not proficient in painting at all, no matter how tough or manly or strong you are. Painting is a skill, it requires specialized and honed techniques, it is not something that you can pick up from a video or by just reading some articles from websites. For a paint job that you and your family struggle over for weeks because of the lack of painting proficiency, skills, tools or equipment, professional painters can accomplish the same task in a matter of less than 2 or 3 days, only better!
Saves Money on Painting Tools
Finding a professional painter to do the job not only saves you time but it also saves you money! Apart from taking longer leave days if you opt for DIY painting (and time means money take your per day salary and multiply by the number of days you are taking off), you also save the money that is needed to spend on the painting tools, supplies and equipment to get the job done. The necessary painting equipment include ladders, trowels, sanders, mixers, banjos, putty knives, tapes, strippers, paint brushes, rollers, extension poles, mixer, etc just to name a few. External walls of landed houses require even more heavy duty equipment to prepare the surfaces for preparation, sanding machines, wall grinders, chiseling tools, etc. These tools and equipment cost thousands of dollars and you only get to use them maybe only once every few years. These tools and machinery evolve just like any other technology, there could be new models replacing your current ones every now and then; unless you are a painter yourself, these tools will be redundant.
What about the cost of setting up? If you live in HDB or condo apartment, you will only need a ladder to help you reach certain heights or corners of the house, but if you are thinking of painting your exterior walls, upper balconies or roofs of your landed house, you will need scaffoldings, extension ladders or even gondolas.
Saves Hassle of Preparation & Cleaning Up
Part of our painting scope also include preparatory protection works such as taping over the edges of skirting, power sockets, door frames and jambs, knobs, and also move all your mobile furniture to the centre of the rooms and cover them with plastic sheets to protect them from getting stained from dripping or splattering paint. They do that also to make space for them to paint all of your peripheral walls. Any ceiling and wall fixtures such as lightings, air conditioning units and ceiling fans will also be covered with protective plastic sheets or newspapers. The entire floor of your home should also be covered with plastic sheets or newspapers or both, as the chances of your floor getting stained is high, considering it is an extensive area and the nature of gravity that causes paint to drip directly on to the floor.
We do not just leave the protection works behind and leave your furniture be, we also collect back these protective sheets and newspapers and provide general cleaning up and moving your mobile furniture back to their original positions at the end of the painting job. There are many considerations why you should not do painting yourself, considering the fact that you may not be experienced and can be negligent over certain smaller details. What if you did not do sufficient protective coverage? What if you make a big mess after all those painting efforts and discovered that your floor, sofas, tiles are all stained or smeared with accidental paint drips or strokes? Apart from the unsightly paint stains, these paint stains are also extremely difficult to remove.
If you paint the house yourself, apart from moving back your furniture, you will need to remove all protective sheets, musking tapes, newspapers, etc, as well as find ways to store up your painting tools and equipment. But wait! Before you even rack your brain over where to store them, what about those paint brushes and tools that needed much cleaning? By now your paint rollers, sponges and brushes would have all hardened with paint, and yet you realize you have spent too much money on them and you cannot bear throwing them away. While most of us may know mineral spirits such as turpentine or some sort of paint thinners as a paint removal agent, the actual task of getting into it is often much tougher than what you have read from any article or from just hearsay. It takes much patience and vigor to remove paint stains; do you really want to spend the time and the strength to do this?
Health Concerns
Most of us know how strong the smells fresh paint can emit and how harmful these VOCs can be to us and the surroundings. Professional paint workers are trained in painting therefore they are also being trained and taught how to practice certain health safety measures to protect themselves from inhaling too much of these volatile organic compounds. The stage at which these VOCs are most actively released to the open air is not when the can of paint is immediately opened, but when the paint is substantially stirred, the chemical compounds from the paint solvent reacts with the composition of the open air through evaporation. The paint has to be stirred with wooden stick or mixer wheel to ensure that the polymers bind well before spreading it on surfaces so that the application is smooth, uniform due to the enhanced elasticity. In the course of DIY painting, do you really want to risk yourself and your family breathing in all these toxins while you work?
Painting Service Warranty
When you get a professional painting company to paint for you, there is usually a 2 years’ service warranty on the workmanship. That is to say, within the 2 years from the job completion, if you discover any problem relating to the workmanship of the painting service, the painting company will have to send their painters to make good those issues. This can take a huge load off your mind knowing that someone will be taking care of the painting quality at home will be guaranteed for you 2 years down the road without you having to lift a finger to even touch up!
If you are still not convinced why getting us, the professional painters to do the job is a better choice, perhaps you may do your sums and compare with our painting prices for HDB & Condos we charge our customers in Singapore and see which makes better monetary sense.