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.
