With people spending less money during these economic hard times, painting contractors are struggling for work and offering crazy low bids just to get work. The bad side of this scenario is that it can cost the homeowner three times the amount of money to paint their home if they accept a crazy low bid.
If you accept Joe Blow's scary low bid, Joe Blow can and probably will quickly turn into Joe Blow-and-Go. Anyone who bids low on a paint job will have to cut as many corners as possible in order to earn a respectable wage.
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Joe Blow-and-Go will buy cheaper paint if possible and he will add ¼ gallon of water or more in each gallon, instead of the standard half gallon of water per five gallons of paint recommended for spraying.
If your home is being painted with the same color as the existing paint, Joe Blow can get away with murder in savings and be able to use a lot less paint than it should really take. If there is any color change, Joe Blow-and-Go will need to be slightly more careful about getting the paint to cover. I will soon add a video to show what will happen to your home, in a couple of years, if the paint is applied too thinly and watered down.
Joe Blow-and-Go will then spray the extremely watered down paint on thin and you'll end up with a bad looking paint job in a year or two.
Since your surface will be covered, you won't know if you got a good paint job or not until it's way too late. You won't even know if they prepared the surface properly. One or two years later, when the thin spots start wearing down from the weather, you're going to be furious. But, Joe Blow will be long gone with your money by then laughing on some bar stool.
Since you will be furious about the shoddy paint job, you'll want to have it done right the second time. That's when you'll end up paying the RIGHT price to get it done and you will more than likely do your homework getting bids and checking references.
Basically, you lost all that money to Joe Blow-and-Go and now you're having to pay for another paint job all over again.
What else can happen as the result of scary low bids from an inexperienced painter?
Joe Blow-and-Go will not prepare your surface properly, because he won't make any money if he takes the extra time to do the proper preparation.
Surfaces that are not cleaned, scrapped, sanded or primed properly will result in continued aggravating problems.
If quality products, primers and paints are not used, your problems will grow faster and can be more costly in the long run.
Scary Low Exterior Painting Bids
Dave Drew
Phoenix, Arizona house painting contractor for 18 years.
http://www.drewpainting.com
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