Close From 21st to 26th Jan For Chinese New Year 2012
SingaporePaintingServices.com wishes all Chinese in Singapore a happy Lunar New Year, may you all prosper in health, relationship and wealth.
We will be close from 21st to 26th Jan 2012, we will contact you on 27th Jan onwards for booking of appointment. Click here to use the form to contact us.
Chinese New Year Promotion For Using Our Painting Service
As we are coming near to Christmas, then New Year celebration 2012, and within 3 weeks will be Chinese New Year. So we decided to come out with a promotion for those who use our painting service before 22nd Jan 2012.
Here are the promotion;
1) Free sealer for 2 toilet ceiling. Just to know that we do not add the sealer painting to our normal painting packages for the 2 toilet ceiling. This is valued @ SGD $100.
2) Free varnishing of main door. This is also not added into our normal painting packages. If you want to paint the main door instead, just add in SGD$20 additional to have it done. This is valued @ SGD $50.
Some FAQs for this promotion
a) For no 1) and 2), this is for all types of house in Singapore. So if you have only 1 toilet, we will use sealer to the one toilet ceiling only. Other related negotiation will not be taken into consideration.
b) Painting job to be done from now till 22nd Jan 2012. For those who intent to paint their homes after 22nd Jan 2012, the promotion will not take effect.
c) This is ONLY applicable to painting the whole interior house only.
Will be adding in to the FAQs of this post as more questions arise, so do take up this limited promotion fast, and contact us now for booking!
Painting Price To Increase Soon, Due To Foreign Worker Levy Increase
The foreign worker levy has increased since 1st July 2011 from $180 to $230, an increase of about 27.7%. The levy will soon increase to $380 before July 2013.
=> Click here to read news from MOM Singapore.
=> Click here to download the foreign worker levy till July 2013.
We will be increasing our painting price soon, as it’s not profitable for us to continue on the current painting price. So if you are looking to use our painting services, do contact us before our price increase.
How Many Coats Of Paint Do We Apply On The Wall?
The recent questions that our customers make were, “How many coats of paint do you apply on the wall?”
The answer is basically 2 coats of paint. Why do we apply 2 coats is because this is the best number of coat of paint that will bring out the colour and economical for the client.
Why we do not paint 1 coat, you can view the post on the link.
There are instances where we have to use 3 coats, the first coat is the base coat of white, usually will use Nippon Matex. Then follow by 2nd and 3rd coat of paint, the clients choose. The reason for having the 3 coats is because the current wall colour is strong like black or bright red, and the colour that the client wants to have is a different colour.
Another example is that we need to use sealer as base painting, it may be due to old walls, moist walls, etc…
The price for painting 3 coats of paint will be more, and will be accessed by our painting contractors whether to use 2 or 3 coats of paint. Do contact us here using the form, the viewing is free and no obligation. By the way we offer 2 year warranty for using our painting services.
Unreasonable Painting Inquiriers: How Do We Handle Them
We have received a few unreasonable inquiriers to use our painting services before, asking us to do this, add that, decrease price, etc… And in the end comment to us that we did not serve them well, and that it’s their rights to have what they want (when they have not pay us yet).
This is what we will do. Ask them politely to engage some other painting contractors in Singapore, since we were not able to provide what they are asking for. BUT, sometimes (like today) they would insist/demand on using us for painting their home.
This is the part that we are most afraid of. We will always reject to take up their unreasonable painting jobs. Because we do not want to prostitute ourselves for making money from them, since we cannot take up their request. And we can move on to other more pleasant people.
With all said and done, we do not harbor any ill intent to these unreasonable inquiriers. But if they have not pay for our painting services and make any complaint to any of the forums or to any media, we will take action against this.
We will always welcome people who wants to inquire our painting services, JUST please be nice to us too, we are humans just like you. We make mistakes just like you too.
God bless you.
1 Coat Painting: Why We Do Not Take Up
Customers have been asking us to paint 1 coat of paint for their house. The reasons are that they want to rent out their house, so a coat of paint will be enough and will be cheaper.
Second, is that some lousy painting contractors who did not do a good job for their client, so the clients needed touch ups for the walls that have not been painted well.
We are not able to provide painting services if only 1 coat of paint is used. Reasons being that the finishes do not look professional and nice, secondly we do not want to lower our wall painting standard.
Hope you can understand.
Wall Plastering Services In Singapore
We will be offering wall plastering services here in Singapore. Actually we have been doing this for a while now, it’s just that we try not to take it up due to the shortage of skilled wall plastering workers.
But now we have enough skilled people to do this niche trade. So if you are looking to plaster your walls in your home, do contact us for an on-site quotation. Do note that the plastering service has to come with the painting service.
What is the price?
Currently, the plastering service is almost the same as painting services, as the condition of the walls will be factor to determine the price of the plastering services. So do use our contact form for an on-site viewing for plastering services.
Difference Between Painting One Room To Whole House
A few of our customers have been asking the difference between painting a room compare to the whole house? Well there seem to have no difference, but the painting price and the number of colours to choose from will be 1 for a room. Why is that so?
Here are our explaination
1) As compare to painting the whole house to a room, the whole house will require more people (depending on the size of the house), whereas a room will typically be a one man painting show. It take a day for a one man to paint the 1 room, as there may be furniture in the room, only 1 man is there to move them around. But for a team of painters will be different, they can help each other in moving, while the rest can prepare or even start painting. That is why HDB painting usually requires 2 days, unless you are living in a Maisonette HDB, which will take up to 4 days.
2) The cost of the painting materials for both are close in price. I am not taking about the number of containers of paint, I am referring to the equipments for the painting, like the painting brush, painting roller, masking tape, plastic drop sheet, etc… The most is only $30 difference, depending on the size of the house too.
3) As for the price of painting a room in Singapore, click on the link to read more….
We need to make a profit to survive in Singapore, as most of our painting workers are not local, we have to pay to taxes to use overseas workers to the government. That will explain why the cost is such for painting 1 room.
Close For Chinese New Year 2011
Hi there,
We will be close from 2nd Feb to 6th Feb 2010 due to Chinese New Year.
You can still make appointments with us from 7th 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.
Painters Workers In Singapore
Most of our painters are from overseas, they are from Myanmar. They have at least 5 years of house painting experience before we hire them.
To tell you the truth, most of the workers in Singapore especially working in the construction areas are from the overseas, they came here to earn a living and feed their family back home.
Is there no Singaporeans who are House Painters?
Well there are, but most of them are old timers. They cost a lot and because of their age, tend to be slow in their painting work. As Singaporeans are brought up in good education, the lowest level in education will be primary 6. But the living condition in Singapore is good, so most of the Singaporeans prefer a office work or even working in a restaurant, rather than a painter.
I have found out from our clients, that most of the best foreign painters are from Myanmar or Malaysia delivers the best painting services job in Singapore. But why these two nationalities? Our clients casually tell us that the other nationalities do not deliver the job well, and has a lot of bad experience in painting their home.
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