Thursday, April 25, 2024
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EZ UP Dust Containment

We’re constantly bringing new products to the table to meet your dust containment demands. Our E-Z Up™ Dust Containment Door Kit provides fast dust containment protection. The unique C-shape zipper allows for quick access in and out of the jobsite. The kit can even be re-used! Just re-apply with new E-Z Up™ Double-Sided Seam Tape. […]

Steady Door

SteadyDoor is the perfect sized tool. It easily spans between two doors and is small enough to be conveniently stowed in a tool box. Overall dimension are just over 10 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. Just about the same size as that pile of junk shims you have been fighting all these years. Source: […]

EMERALD® LINE WITH URETHANE TRIM ENAMEL

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS EXPANDS EMERALD® LINE WITH URETHANE TRIM ENAMEL Emerald interior/exterior waterbased cabinet, door and trim enamel provides an enduring and premium appearance CLEVELAND — Sherwin-Williams has expanded the Emerald family of products, its finest interior and exterior paints, with the new Emerald® Interior/Exterior Waterbased Urethane Trim Enamel. It’s perfect for cabinet, door and trim projects […]

Bottom Feeder

Don Searcy, the inventor of the Bottom Feeder has invented a product that he says: In the paint industry, time and resources are a valuable asset. Any time saved during the cleaning process, by making clean-up faster, enables you to get more work done and finish more jobs! With resources saved through the use of […]

The 5 Pillars to a Successful Local Digital Marketing Campaign – Part II

Every painting company is unique, and every digital marketing campaign requires a unique strategy tailored to the needs of your business. With that said, there are consistent “pillars,” that together can work to help your painting business increase online traffic, leads, and sales. In part one of this two-part post, we discussed two of the […]

Paint Training Made Easy

There is no doubt, the world is changing. In some categories, the paint world hasn’t kept up. Critical skill and knowledge standards that painters need have not evolved into reliable digital form. There are plenty of marketing, estimating and sales resources, but online paint training options for crews in the field remains behind. Paint contractors […]

Avoiding 3 Painful Tax Penalties

“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.” – Herman Wouk Imaginative fiction that can cost you, if you’re not careful. There’s nothing worse than paying penalties on top of what you owe the IRS. The IRS can hit you with many different tax penalties. Here are 3 basic IRS penalties and […]

Understanding Project Manuals

Project Manuals are the other tool that is provided, along with blueprints, to enable us to assemble an accurate bid. Whether you are bidding to general contractors or directly to the owner of a project, often you will be provided with an FTP site link where you can download the “Plans and Specs”. Once you […]

Hiring, Firing and Training

There are several things to consider when you think about what type of work you want to do. Generally speaking, it’s better to do a few things well rather than trying to do it all. Consider what types of work are available in your area, what you are best equipped to do and what it […]