Working for painters?

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Jeff Robison

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Does anyone here prep houses for painters? I have been contacted by a few and in the past never really had much interest because I was an owner/operator with a full time job. Now I have two employees and I was thinking it could be a way to fill in some gaps in the schedule.

Seems like it would be a real wham dam cleaning with bleach only. Quick in and out and would give them something to do when not real busy with our other stuff. Actually, thinking about upselling concrete, decks, fences too when we show up.

Any thoughts?

Jeff Robison
Clean Up Atlanta, Inc.
678-360-2518
 
Jeff,

I did prep painting in the past.... and do it occassionally now.

The new thing I have done this year is I hired a professional painter full time on my staff. I bid the jobs and them give him one to two helpers to get it done. We have the ladders, sprayers and most of the equipment anyway. It has proven to be a huge boost to revenue and the bottom line.
 
I did two paint preps this week alone and always take them when they pop up. But all I do is the cleaning of dirt and mildew and remove oxidation, I do not promise to remove all flaking paint from wood surfaces,.... only what comes off through normal washing. They will still have to scrape or burn off to get to a paintable surface. Cleaning is just a step in the overall prep work.

Jeff
 
I have done a couple of paint preps for others but I also paint so most prep jobs were for houses I painted. I use Power House with 12%. You need to be sure you get it clean.

Mike makes a good point about the liability for a failed paint job. If I was doing a lot of these I would want to be sure I knew the painter I was doing them for and could trust their work.
 
Sounds like everyone is taking the job too seriously? What a painter expects from PWing is
#1 Clean the substrate
#2 Remove anything you can as flaking, peeling paint
#3 Rinse the substrate of any detergent
What you need to do as a sub, cleaning the substrate is explain to the painting contractor that
#1 you are cleaning.
#2 You will not remove any paint unless it is very loose.
#3 You will remove any detergent from the substrate.
That is all there is to it. You cannot remove tight paint without pressure. You will damage the substrate if using high pressure.
Make it known to the painting contractor you are there to clean only.
Thank You.
 
We charge more for a paint prep, we always ask the painter for his imput on area he is owrried about. Then we address those, Terry pointed out several of the points of interest.

I agree its not really tougher but it can take more time.
 
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