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  • Budgeting For Commercial Painting Projects
    If your maintenance budget for the current operating year has a taken a hit, you may be wondering how to get a commercial painting project accomplished along with everything else. Two possible solutions to project budgeting are purpose driven spending and changing the contracting process.
  • Understanding the Deck Coating Preparation Process
    Deck coating is one of the more challenging aspects of professional painting and coating. The deck surface takes repeated impacts and abrasions, as well as the general wear and tear of heavy traffic. All of this abuse makes the preparation stage of deck coating extremely important.
  • How to Attract and Retain Quality Employees
    Whether you run an independent painting company or you're contracting with an outside painting company, you want to know how to forge lasting bonds with your employees. Changes in personnel cost your company time and reduce the efficiency of your painting crews.
  • A Facility Manager's Guide to Preparing Painting Surfaces
    Proper painting surface preparation is one of the most critical factors to getting high quality results. It doesn't matter whether the job is complete repainting of a 1,000,000 square foot warehouse complex or a simple touch up job in the gymnasium of a small elementary school.
  • Tips from Professional Painting Contractors
    During the final stages of a painting project, taking a tour through the area and assessing the quality of the job should be first on the to do list. Here are a few tips from professional painting contractors for a finished surface inspection. If possible, examine the painted surfaces in both natural daylight and artificial light. Different anomalies may be visible in different lighting conditions.
  • Commercial Painting Budgets
    If your maintenance budget for the current operating year has a taken a hit, you may be wondering how to get a commercial painting project accomplished along with everything else. Two possible solutions to project budgeting are purpose driven spending and changing the contracting process.



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