Not All Landed Property Will Have 5 Years Warranty For Exterior Painting
For landed property owners, you will want to consider painting your house exterior every 5 years, as most of the exterior paints they give the 5 years warranty. That also explains why HDBs do a make over every five years.
But there is a slight problem for some landed property owners, especially for those living near the coastal lines or sea.
It is main due to the natural erosion called the sea water or salt water. Although the sea will not be the one hitting on the walls of the property, but the moisture or the vapor from the sea that will be the one causing the problem. It has been known that salt water increase the rate of erosion.
The exterior paints will not be able to last long, and why coastal properties tend to be so much more expensive than those more in lands and high in maintenance fees too. From our experience, the most it will last is 3 or 4 years depending on the situation too.
You might ask what happens for the interior wall painting? Is it the same as the exterior?
Yes it faces the same destiny as long as you are near the sea. So we are not able to offer the 2 year warranty for your interior painting as well.
Note: All painting contractors can give the 5 years warranty for your exterior wall, as long as it’s not near the sea. If they do not provide the 5 year warranty even if you live in land, don’t do not use them.
Get your free on site quotation for your landed property with us.
Painting and Cleaning Services For HDB Flats
As demand for our painting services continues to grow – we are listening to our clients more… And we thank you and appreciate ALL your feedback that you have given us!
One of the most common requests we receive is whether do we provide cleaning services after the painting job is over. While we do help in arranging and putting your furniture back in order, our painters do not double up as part time maids.
However, we are glad to announce our latest new additions to our company list of services. We now provide house cleaning and part-time maids in Singapore as well. We are grateful to one of our clients who have provided her happy testimonial to our house cleaning services.
To find out more about our weekly house cleaning services – we have a blog on Domestic Cleaning in Singapore. Check it out!
Hidden Costs In Painting Services: Beware Of Advertising Gimmicks
There are a lot of contractors trying to advertise to get you to take action during the June holiday. They promised to give extra painting related services in terms of voucher, just to have your name, mobile and email.
I must say that their marketing is catching on, BUT there is one thing to note is that you might be paying more than you expected most of the time. They will make you pay for the additional home services, with terms and conditions applied, which in the end you have to pay much more than you expected.
As I shared previously on unethical painting contractors in Singapore, how you can spot them and how YOU as the owner will suffer because of the un-professionalism in their work. But thank God the one that are having a advertising gimmicks is a very reputable company which charges a much higher painting services pricing than us.
I am not saying that do not use these painting contractors, what I am saying is that are they able to fulfill what is been requested by the owners, you? To paint according to what you want, to give assurance or even warranty after the painting services, that they will not have any additional hidden charges when they promised you in the first place that it is at this particular price.
To answer the question above, we are able to show you the real deal….
1) If we are not able to do according to what you want, we would not accept your painting job. Yes, why would we still want to hold on to something which we cannot deliver. We believe in quality, but we also know that different painting companies have different limitations.
2) We gave 2 years warranty for those who used our painting services, and most of our clients are assured by this along. There is not much painting company out there in Singapore willing to give this 2 year warranty claim.
3) No hidden charges from us. That is why we insist in doing an on-site viewing of your house, so that we are able to give you an accurate quotation. I do not blame the other painting contractors on giving you a quote that is price the least onwards, it’s because some clients insist on knowing, and expect us (the contractors) to give accurately.
What these clients do not know is that not all the houses are the same, the most we can give you is a range (from to what price). I hope that you will understand that we value quality very much, and that we want to give and do our best work on each and everyone’s home or offices or buildings or even factories.
Attention! June Holidays Coming. Get Your House Painting Quote Fast
This is going to be a short post. As the June holidays are approaching, and we know that there will be a lot of people rushing to paint their house at this period of time. So I want to give a heads up for those of you intending to do that.
1) Please book your appointment with us early. Like 3 to 4 days in advance. Because I can see that the time slots will be taken up very fast, and you need to be decisive as well. Click the banner to fill in the form or call the number you see on the banner if you are urgent.
2) Painting of 1 rooms. We will not be able to paint the 1 room in the month of June, but if you really want to have it done, it has to be before the June (meaning May), or after June (in July). Sorry for the inconvenience.
With the heads up, I hope that you will at least confirm appointment in May first then start painting in June. This way, you would have confirm a time slot in June to paint your house.
Beware of Unethical And Unprofessional Painting Contractors
I received a call today from a lady who has engaged a painting contractor, and the painter (1 painter) came yesterday with a beer bottle, drinking, started work for a while then disappeared for a couple of hours. He then came back again around 3pm to continue painting. All this time this one painter has only finished painting the ceiling of ONE room only.
For your info, this lady is about to be married next week and that the house painting is to be completed by tomorrow, so that some of the renovation can be done on time. But all this has to be delayed because the painting contractor was not a professional. I felt sorry for this lady, so I offered to help because she was in a bad situation because of the unprofessional behavior of the painting contractor.
It is our company policy that we try NOT to take up painting jobs from other painting contractors who did not do a good job on the owner’s house. But she seemed quite desperate and is in the marriage period, so I tried my best to help her in any way. So I promised that I will get back to her in less than an hour after my discussion with my partner. My partner agreed to help, so I called her straight away to offer the help, but we need to view the house first, before we can start work but only on the very next day.
But the husband was not agreeable because they are running out of time and decided to stick to the unprofessional painting contractor.
I must say that a lot of painting contractors and renovation contractors in Singapore are quite unprofessional in their work. That is due to using of cheap painting services in Singapore. I can be sure that there is not much of quality and warranty given to the owners from the cheap painting contractors.
I am not sure if the lady is paying a cheap painting contractor… what I do know is that they are not very professional in their painting work.
How can you find a good reliable painting contractor in Singapore. For more info, read “Painters in Singapore: Are They Reliable?“
Painting Cost For Landed Properties
If you are living in a landed property like Semi-D, Terrace house and Bungalow, you may know that doing a painting job is very expensive for landed properties.
As most of the Singaporeans lived in HDBs or condos, the painting cost can be estimated range from our past work with thousands of HDBs and condo homes. You can view HDB painting costs and condo painting costs here.
The cost of painting a landed property can go as high as $15,000. It was due to a couple of reasons that made made it so costly.
Reasons Why Painting Landed Properties Are So Costly:
1) Exterior Wall Painting: This is the main reason why painting a landed property is so much costly than a HDB and condo. Because the exterior walls are subjected to weather, and thus corrosion is at it’s best with weather. As Singapore is a tropical island where raining occurs a lot of time throughout the year, with the strong sun acting on the exterior walls, all the more you need strong lasting paint that can protect your exterior wall. One thing to note is that the more sides u have for your exterior walls, the more it will cost.
2) Scaffolding: It’s part of the reason why exterior wall painting is so expensive is due to using of scaffolding for the landed properties. There are three types of scaffolding painting contractors generally use.
3) Two Or More Levels: Most of the landed properties in Singapore are usually 2 levels, though we have painted one and three levels properties before. It just means that there are more interior walls to paint. The more wall surfaces in your house the more labour and paint we have to buy. Some landed properties have lots of extra interior walls, thus increase in the cost as well.
I know that if I tell you that painting your landed property cost about $15K, you will not consider doing it. But the thing is that not all the landed property will reach that price either. For landed property we would actually insist on viewing before quoting, as we not able to give quote without physically view and access the whole landed property.
There is another thing, the usual practice in Singapore is that most of the exterior painting will come with 5 years warranty, but this will not be given if your landed property is near to the coast or sea side, as the air around the coast is very salty making corrosion speeds up. So if there is some painting contractor giving you a 5 year warranty when your property is near the coast, please do be careful.
Finally a nice exterior painting finish will definitely boost up the value of your landed property and help increase the perceived value to much higher.
We do provide free no-obligation viewing of your landed property, click on the link to contact us.
When Do You Need Sealer For Painting
Sealer or primer is is primarily used when you are living in a new home (meaning you are the first owner), or when you have a wall that is prone to moisture, will you need sealer or primer for wall or ceiling painting services.
From our painting experiences, most of the Singapore homes will not really require sealer, but we do have some customers insisting on using sealant for their walls. Here are our advise when you need to use sealant:
1) New Homes or House. Why new homes or houses need to use sealer is because sealer will neutralise the alkali on the walls before painting.
2) Moist Walls or Ceilings. Have you ever had your walls paint and after few months later, there are stains on your newly painted walls or ceilings? It’s a common sight and we had this experience before. When this happens then you will need to use the sealant to prevent the moisture from attacking the new paint over again.
3) Old Homes or Houses. This is when the homes or houses are over 20 years old then use the sealer.
There are two types of sealer, oil based sealer and water based sealer. Click on the links to find out which is more suitable for you.
Here are our price list for using sealer in HDB homes:
3 Room HDB: $250 (water based), $300 (oil based)
4 Room HDB: $350 (water based), $400 (oil based)
5 Room HDB: $450 (water based), $500 (oil based)
If you need painting contractors to paint your house, contact us for a no-obligation quotation.
What’s Included When I Used Your Painting Services?
A few times, the customers inquire what are the things included when they use our painting services Singapore. So here are the list of things to note:
1) Paint. Depending on the type of paint you want, and we will purchase them. Usually we will bring Nippon and ICI paint brochures for you to choose from. Do note that labor only painting services is no longer available, as we mostly find it too difficult to quote a fair price.
2) Moving of Furniture. This service is FREE when using our painting services. Just for your info, there are others out there charging additional of $100 to $200 for moving the furniture.
3) Protecting of Furniture. This is a MUST for all painting services in Singapore, and it’s part of the deal. If you find that some bad painting contractors are actually charging you for the furniture protection, you better get rid of him or her fast. By the way, we use the plastic drop cloth to protect your furniture while painting. It cost around $1.20 to $1.50.
4) Painting of All Ceilings. All the ceilings in your house will be painted in Nippon Matex (white). This include the bathrooms and the kitchen as well (As both are usually tiled). If you need to use a better paint for the ceiling, there will be an additional charges.
5) Painting of All Walls. This is the basics of the painting services in Singapore. Unless owner do not need to paint a particular wall, we will not do according as request.
6) Painting Of Piles. This is usually FREE to the home owners. It’s usually done in HDB houses not in condo, as condos walls cover the piles.
7) House Keeping. Lastly, once complete, we will do a house keeping, cleaning mopping the floors of your house. Owners usually do not need to clean again, unless they want to.
Once the above 7 items are done, we will let the owners inspect the house, once owner is satisfied with our service, we will hand over the home back to owner. It is then that the owners will have to make payment on the agreed price for the painting services.
Why Painting Of Ceiling Must Be Included?
These few months, a lot of people have enquired on painting of walls in their homes only. However, when we paint the walls it has to include the ceilings as well. The main reason is that it is impossible to not touch the ceilings.
You might ask that by using the masking tape to protect the outline of the ceilings, this would be protect the ceilings from being painted. But it will not be 100% protected, even though we use the masking tape.
Another reason is that once there is some stains on the ceiling with the new wall painting – even if we use the same colour for the ceiling – the colour will NO LONGER be the same as before. This is due to the fact that the old and the new paint for the ceilings are of different ages which you can see very clearly with your naked eyes.
The next reason is that, we know that home owners will not pay for the extra paint (for the ceiling) if there is stains on the ceilings. In order to for us to prevent this misunderstanding with you, we have decided that ceiling painting MUST be included in all our home painting services.
I hope that this will help answer if why we have to include painting of ceiling. Do understand our situation as well as the logistical and aesthetic reasons behind this. We recommend you request for our no obligation painting viewing quotation. Hear from you soon!
From A Happy Painting Services Customer
I had a email recently on how great our painting services were, it came from one of our clients (not someone I know, I did not even meet her face to face). She was so happy with our services, that I feel that I should share with you.
By the way just for your info, we now have house cleaning services as well besides painting services. You can contact us to enquire on both of the services. Here is the email Maple send to us.
Dear Cyrus,
Good morning.
I’m very satisfied with both painting and cleaning service.
A very complete and detail pre-painting inspection was conducted (by Mr. Min). The quotation was reasonable. I was also offered a wide variety of colors and different types of paint. I couldn’t make up my mind at first, because there’re really too many colors to choose from. In the end the colors were decided with assistance from Mr. Min. He gave me some good advice. I’m quite satisfied when I saw the final result after the painting job completed. The 3 workers are also very hardworking and helpful. They helped to paint the main entrance door twice when I commented that it was not glossy enough. The entire painting job of my 105m^2 4-room HDB apartment was completed in two days, which is really fast.
The cleaning service was also very good. Although the 105m^2 apartment looks a bit too big for the 2 cleaners, they did an excellent job to clean every single corner of all rooms, especially the built-in wardrobes and kitchen cabins. There’re some cabins are too high to reach, but they still managed to climb up and clean. I feel that it’ll be better if ladders and vacummn cleaner are provided by their employer, because these are common and necessary equipment and it’ll make the cleaning job safer and more efficient.
Thank you very much!
Yours,
Maple, Ma Yun
