Patrick Miller Painting Exterior Services
Here are just some of our exterior services features, if you have any questions at all, please give us a call.
Planning things out
Exterior Painting can vary between different painting
contractors. So What I would like to do is highlight some of
the things that we take pride in. One of them is before we start
any job, everything is planned out according to your schedule
and what works best for you. We know that having painters at
your home 8 hours a day can be an invasion on your privacy.
We try to make this experience as smooth as possible by letting
you know what tasks we will be performing the next day as we
move forward with project.
Protecting your plants
With exterior painting projects we take great care in keeping your
plants and surrounding gardens in great shape, this is another
area I take great pride in. You won't come home and see a painter
cleaning his brushes in your rose garden. Before we start any
exterior job, we will ask you where the best place to clean
up is, if there is none then we will take our equipment home
with us.
Making sure you have the right colors
Color Samples in my opinion
are important. Sometimes what you see on that little color chip
will end up looking completely different when it's on your
house. This could be for a variety of reasons such as lighting
conditions, the texture of the surface and surrounding colors.
So it's best to apply some actual color to the house to make
sure it's what you're looking for. Let's face it, if the color
is not right then no matter how good of a job we do you are
not going to be 100% satisfied.
Actually doing some prep work
Prep work. In general, 70% of painting a house is prep work. From washing, sanding, caulking, patching and
priming. The other 30% is applying the finish paints. Prep is
the key for a long lasting and nice looking job. We prefer to
use oil primer for raw wood areas as it penetrates into the
wood better then the water base primers. Also we try to do as
little patching as possible. This is typically the first to
fail due to expansion of the wood when it's wet and shrinkage
when it's dry out.
Using quality finish paints
Quality finish paints. Just makes sense. You spend all that time on prep and getting it
ready for finish. Why ruin everything by trying to save a few
bucks on using cheap paints. We are proud users of Benjamin
Moore paints.
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