Questions To Ask Before Hiring An Indoor Home Painter
Having a professional paint your home is a great choice. You are likely to get better results than if you were to paint the house yourself. You also don't have to spend day after day dragging a brush over your walls and peeling off tape. In fact, the hardest part of having your home professionally painted is hiring the painter — and even that's not very tough if you know what questions to ask along the way.
Who will prepare the home?
There is always some prep that needs to be done before a house is painted. Certain furniture needs to be moved. Other furniture can be covered with drop cloths. You may need to remove pictures and other decor from the walls. Often, the homeowner will move the furniture and remove paintings, but sometimes painters will do this — occasionally for an extra fee. Make sure you know exactly who will handle various prep tasks before the painting project begins.
What kind of wall prep will the painters do?
Different walls need to be prepared for paint in different ways. Some walls may need an oil-based primer. Others may need a little patchwork before they can be painted. Ask the painter to run through the necessary wall prep work with you before you agree to have them paint your home. This will have a big impact on how much your paint job ends up costing as prepping the walls can take even more time than painting them.
What kind of paint will they use?
Professional painters typically use high-end paint. Ask them to tell you what brand and line they use so you can then look up the paint and be sure it's a type you're comfortable with. If you do not like the paint that your painters plan on using, don't be afraid to ask the painters to substitute something else. This might affect the cost of your paint job, but most painters are willing to change paint at the customer's request.
How long will the job take?
Painters are better able to estimate how long a job will take than many other types of contractors. There are fewer obstacles they can run into along the way. So, if you ask your painter how long the job will take, you can generally count on the work being done within a day or two of the date they give you. This way, you can better plan for things like moving in, placing furniture, and doing other work on your home.
If you ask the right questions, you'll have a better idea of how your painting project will proceed and what's expected of you. Before long, your home interior will look like new.
Contact a residential painter near you to get started.
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