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.
New Website Upgrade For SingaporePaintingServices.com
We have just upgraded our website with a fresh new look.It has been more than 2 years (2008) since we started to provide our painting service online. The old website look was kind of simple and straight forward. We know that and that is why we had to change to help our customers able to navigate more easily in our website.
At the same time, hoping to give our customers (you) fresh things with fresh feeling with us, of course our free on-site painting quotation and 2 year painting warranty is still on. If you have any questions regarding house painting, office painting, commercial painting and exterior painting, do use our form to contact us.
Lastly, our stuffs at SingaporePaintingServices.com wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011. Enjoy the joyous holiday season.
For New Home Owners Who Have Not Collected Their Keys Yet
I have a lot of calls or even inquiries on our forms that they have not collect their new home keys yet, but yet wants to find out our painting rates first. You can click on the our HDB painting rates link to find out more.
Do note that we will still need to do an on-site viewing for actual quotation. It is free and no obligation.
Currently is the year end, and a lot of people are moving house or repainting their house. All this is to get ready for the new year to come. So be sure to fix appointment or even fix a date for painting work soon, for this is a peak period for us.
After the new year, the Chinese will be celebrating the Lunar New Year. So be sure to have your home paint soon, so you can get ready to for Chinese New Year.
Imposing As SingaporePaintingServices.com
There has been some company trying to say they are Singapore Painting Services, they even say that they provide 2 years warranty just like us. But till I found out from this company’s customer Mrs Ong from Pasir Ris Street 21.
Mrs Ong called in today, mistakenly thinking we are that company (since the company also called themselves Singapore Painting Services), asking for Mike and George. I told her we do not have anyone by these 2 names. She asked again if we are Singapore Painting Services, and I said “Yes, we are. But we do not have Mike or George in our company”.
As Mrs Ong did contact us in Oct 2010, wanting to paint her house. After giving her a rough quote range, she wanted to discuss with her family, but she lost our contact number. Then she saw that the other company is advertising on the newspaper, using Singapore Painting Services as their name. Mrs Ong though that it was us, so she used them.
After Mrs Ong has confirmed the painting with them, she paid them upfront full. She saw they have their uniforms with our names too. Then the painting stopped halfway, and no work has been done. Mrs Ong tired to contact Mike or George, but they were not contactable. So she search online using “Singapore Painting Services”, and she found us.
I must say that for those who wants to paint their house, please find out what are the names of the contact person with their mobile number and their REAL company name or domain name. If those who have been doing this thing to Mrs Ong, they can also do this to you too.
If you want to find out their websites, search in Google using “singapore painting services”, scrolling down once the result is out, find Mike’s name there and you can find out more about them.
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.
Get our free and no obligation quotation on site viewing now!
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.
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