Use a Painting Contractor or Do-it-yourself?
When you are deciding whether you will hire a painting contractor or will do the job itself, you have to weigh in several factors.
Some of the most important things you have to take into consideration are the following:
Cost/Budget- if you decide to do the job yourself, you have to keep in mind that not only you have to allot a certain period of time on this project; you also have to have the materials that is needed for the job. You need to buy the paint, roller brush, paper towels, tapes, rags, plastic drop cloths, tarps, even ladder for you to reach the highest area, etc. Not only that you have to buy materials, you also have to be familiar with what you need and how to use them.
Experience- this is another consideration that you need to keep in mind. If you have completed the same job before and did not encounter any problems then you may opt to do the house painting yourself. But this will always depend on your time availability. If, on the other hand, you have no experience in wall painting, choosing a painting contractor would be a better idea. Painting contractors that have the experience will no longer find it hard to perform the job. There is a risk of fewer mistakes thus you can guarantee that the job will be completed on the right time.
Reality- the quality of the job is quite different when you do the job yourself compared to when you hire a paint contractor. Of course, it would look more real and professionally done if you hire a paint contractor to do the painting. If you encounter a problem, a paint contractor will be able to fix it in a given time so you will not have to worry about having the job in a pending mode.
Hiring a paint contractor is way much wiser than doing the painting job yourself. Do contact us if you want us to help you in painting your home. Click Here to contact us for painting appointment, or read “What’s Included When I Used Your Painting Services?” post.
Is Our Painting Workers Legal?
We have heard people have used illegal painters to paint their home or work place. We like to share with you, we do not have illegal painters working with us, all our workers are legal. Meaning we paid levy to Singapore government to have them work in Singapore.
This was one of the questions when I was returning call to a enquirer today. She first asked if our painters are Singaporean, I answered no, then she asked if they are legal, and “Yes” is my answer. Why do people ask this question?
I think the main reason is to avoid trouble. Trouble from the authorities and trouble from the illegal painters.
Trouble from authorities. As you know that Singapore government is very strict in illegal workers working here, I am not sure as a customer what you will get from the authorities if you know that the painters are illegal. I can only say, “do anything you want, but don’t get caught“.
Trouble from illegal painters. I heard that Malaysian painters are coming over to Singapore to work illegally as a painter. They can charged lower rates than the legal painters, because they do not need to paint levy and the Malaysian currency is weaker than Singapore’s. So the Malaysian painters will still earn more even when they offer lower price than our legal Singapore painters.
Another thing is that the illegal painters do not register a company in Singapore, so they are not really liable to Singapore law. You can say they are in the gray area. If there is any problem during or after the painting, most probably they will not care about you, and you can’t report to the authorities.
The solution is to use local registered painting companies in Singapore, though we are more expensive than the illegal ones, but we are way more reliable painters. Have a great weekend!
On Site Viewing For Painting: What Do We Do?
When we have made an appointment with the painting services prospects who want to paint their home/ office/ property. Here are what we will ask the house or office owners:
1) Type of paint. There are a lot of different brands of paint, like Nippon or ICI, which are the ones we prefer to use.
2) Colour of paint. Once the type of paint has been decided. It’s down to choosing the paint colours. There are usually more than 20 different colours to choose from a type of paint. Once the colour has been decided, we will take note of the colour code, and note down which wall to paint which colour.
3) Inspect the wall condition. We will also go around the house to check on the condition of the walls. This is because that if the walls are not in good condition to paint, we will need to do plastering to it, or paint it over a couple of times. This will also determine the cost of painting.
4) Expected date of start. The owner to inform us when to start the painting. A rough date range will do.
5) Send quotation (optional). Once the above is done. Quotation will be send to the interested painting party. We will only send the quotation upon request.
Note: Due to the availability of our manpower, it’s best if you can inform us at least a week to confirm the date of painting.
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Invest Now, Or Pay For Repairs Later?
When I was in primary school, there was this story in one of my Chinese textbook, it talks about a man who has a problematic wooden door, it can’t be locked.
Thinking that Singapore is such a safe place to live in, he decided to ignore this seemingly petty problem, and go about doing his normal work and activities daily. After a few weeks – he cam back from work, he found that his house has been robbed, and most of his valuable items has been taken away.
He reported the case to the Police, they found out that there was no forced entry as the wooden door was not able to be locked. The police officer asked the owner, “Did you know about your wooden door - it can’t be locked?”
Taken from www.chesterfield.ac.uk
He replied “Yes”. Police said “Then I guess you made this easy for the thief to walk in to steal your property, and I guess the insurance company will not be paying for your losses as well”.
What this story tells us – it is necessary to spend or invest in repairing the problem wooden door or even get a lock when the problem arises – and this will make sure the owner will be insured even if the thief steals from him.
With unethical and unprofessional painting contractors in Singapore, what you need is assurance and insurance from the painting contractors.
We SingaporePaintingServices.com has been very open and I can say – one of the most transparent painting contractor or painting company in Singapore. We have a 2 year warranty for those who uses our painting services. The risk is on us not you.
That will explain why we want to have an on-site viewing first before we can give you the actual quote. By giving an on-site quotation – you can be assured that the price is the most accurate with no add-on or top-up costs.
Why some painting contractors give quote on the phone without viewing the house?
A lot of painting contractors do not want to waste time in going to your house to give actual quotation, because of the transport fee they incur. Thus they will tell you that the price starts from, but no ending range price.
Whereas we have given you on our website or on our painting services blog – the price, and what happens if you have additional items that you need us to service on, then will there be additional charges.
There are some many horror stories I heard from those who called in, wanting us to help them touch up or even repaint the whole house again, because of unprofessional and cheap painting contractors. They have paid those un-pro and cheap contractors, and was not able to have them come back to paint again, as they deemed it was not profitable.
Yes, it is unprofitable for them. But who engaged them in the first place? It was the owner! As the owner paid them cheaply, so their work also is cheaply done for the owner. Do you want this to happen to your over $400,000 or more home? Think again about the time you have to spend again PLUS the money to repaint over again, is it worth it?
We are your assurance and insurance in getting your home painted professionally. Click fill in form for on-site viewing NOW. We promise that there will be no charges when we view your home. If you feel bad about this, you can always treat them to a drink when they are over at your soon-to-be beautiful home.
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.
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?“
Painters In Singapore: Are They Reliable?
Have you heard of some bad comment from some friends who used painters in singapore that did not provide sufficient service to their home? And you are wondering how to find a good reliable Singapore painter?
There are a few ways you can find out whether they are reliable:
Friend’s Recommendation: This is also known as word of mouth, which is the best way to find reliable painters. This is the best advertising for any type of business, as it is free and you have someone who is happy with the service willing to tell others about it. I must say that our business is mostly coming from friend’s recommendation; almost 50% of our business in painting comes from recommendation.
Registered As a Singapore Business: With this in hand, the painters are accountable to you as well as the Singapore government. Because once the customers find that the painters did not provide the services they should be, the customers can complain to the Singapore government authorities. So the painters have huge accountability to you as a customer.
Testimonials from Past Customers: Well this may not be the best, but they must have at least some testimonials from their past customers on the website, telling how good, how fast the painters are. How happy they are in engaging the painters. Here are some of our past and current testimonies.
There is a clear line when you want a reliable painting service, compared to a cheap service. You will decide which to use depending on your budget.
Do note that once you have engaged cheap painters in Singapore, your home may not be in the shape (colour) as you intended with the cheap painters. It is always better to have quality reliable painters in Singapore, where you pay for quality instead of cheap pricing. You decide.
We do provide free on-site viewing quotation, that is no-obligation. Do contact us now for appointment now.
Painting Contractors Singapore: How To Find Good Ones?
Finding good painting contractors in Singapore can sometime be a headache, as you will not know what are the things you as a home owner.
I have list down how to determine the painting contractors are good to service your home:
1) Free No Obligation Viewing
Some of the painting service company does not offer this service to the home owners or the office owners. This can really help in helping the owners in explaining and understanding what the owners want.
In this way, it also helps the painting contractors in giving actual quotation instead of just the phone quote. The painting contractors would like to see the home or office, as there will be some area that on phone the owners might have miss out.
2) Giving Good Painting Recommendation
A lot of home owners do not have idea what colour to paint their home. Of course those that engage interior designers, the designer will determine the colour with the furniture. A tip in how to determine your home colour is to know what the majority furniture colour is.
If your furniture are mostly black, then you might want to have the walls maybe in white colour. The thing is to have a contrast in the colour, even if the furniture are mostly white, you can use a different white to contrast it.
Lastly is that you might want to have a room (most properly living room or dining room) to be your feature room, so the colour of the room will be a different one from the other rooms.
3) Attitude Of The Painting Contractor
This is what I think is the best reason to use the painting contractor. The whole world now focus on service of the service provider, they are in the end customers to us. It is right for them to get good service, so the attitude of the painting contractors is the only reason that the owners engage you.
You might think that price is your focus, I agree but price cannot be the main reason. It’s always the service that counts.
If you want to find good painting contractors in Singapore, you might want to consider engaging us.
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