Door Painting: How Much Do We Charge
Door painting has been part of our services in our company. Most painting companies in Singapore do offer this as well.
Here are how we charge for painting or lacquering of the doors:
Painting of door will be $40 to $50 per door.
Lacquering of door will be $30 to $40 per door.
Do note that the prices above are not included in our painting services price range. This is the average price range for doors in Singapore. There are contractors pricing it more expensive than most of the painting contractors, so do be careful if they are over this price range.
And of course the painted doors that are done by us will still have the 2 year painting warranty with us.
Important: Door painting is a add on service to our painting services, so we do not take up painting of doors only.
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.
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 inquired 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!
We Do Not Provide Monthly Installment For Painting Services
For the past few months, we have painting services clients asking for installment for the services we are providing. We are not able to do so as we do not have any collaboration with any of the banks here in Singapore.
Here are some of the reasons why we do not take up installment:
1) We pay our laborers in a week. Due to the natural of the service, a very labour intensive one, we have to pay our workers according to how many days they work every week. The banks are not able to pay us this fast.
2) The banks will draw commission from the installment plan. Every bank will draw a certain percentage of commission from the amount that is being charge. We will not be able to profit much after using installment plan. I guess most of you will not be willing as well.
I hope you understand our position, where our work is very labour intensive and time consuming. This does not mean that we will not use credit card installment in the future. We might consider or continue to use the current system. It will depend on the market needs.
Close For Chinese New Year
Hi there,
We will be close from 14th Feb to 16th Feb 2010 due to Chinese New Year.
You can still make appointments with us from 17th Feb 2010 onwards (after Chinese New Year).
Our Painters and contractors still need to rest, but we will be ready to serve you even better after the rest.
I wish a Happy Chinese New Year and enjoy the long holidays next week.
Happy 2010 From SingaporePaintingServices.com
Happy new year to you. Thank you for your patronage for the past 2009. It has been a very exciting year and we are expecting more people to use our painting services this year.
To those who have used our painting services last year, thank you again. Below is a post card we send out a week ago, it our way of thank you to our clients.
By the way, Chinese New Year is coming on the 14th Feb 2010 (Valentine’s day too). If you want to paint your house or office before Chinese New Year, better contact us soon, so we can help you brighten your home. Click here for a free Painting Services Quotation now.
