Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Benjamin Moore Waterborne Ceiling Paint

  I recently had the chance to work with Benjamin Moore’s fairly new ceiling paint 508. Touted as an ultra flat paint specifically formulated for ceilings that hides common ceiling imperfections, it uses the Gennex waterborne colorant system making it a VOC compliant product in all areas. It has longer open times for more work-ability, leading to less laps […]

What’s in your toolbox?

Painters have “stuff” As we are heading full force into the exterior season I am sure there are guys (like my husband Rob) who are digging thru toolboxes and finding tools in all sorts of buckets and places they don’t belong! Some guys have a pretty good system of organizing their tools, like Scott showed […]

Taking Your Work Home With You

I’m in the middle of a Elevated Blood Lead Investigation.  This is where I try and find the source or sources that caused the lead poisoning of a child.  One suspect is a painter who transferred lead dust from his clothes to the family car and then that dust was transferred to his wife’s clothing and […]

Social Media: Creating Your Connection

By far, one of the biggest draws to social media is the ability to expand your “reach” in your market. Social media helps create awareness for causes, and it gives us the ability to connect with others. It is no secret that social media has revolutionized how we all do business – from communicating with […]

3 Steps for Painting Contractors to Power up your Referral Network using LinkedIn

Why don’t more painting contractors use LinkedIn effectively? I’ve often citied the statistics I’ve gathered over the years from coaching over a hundred painting contractors and tracking their numbers. Those statistics continue to hold up. 65% or more of your business comes from relationships, whether they be repeat customers, referrals from customers, referrals from strategic […]

On Hiring A Consultant…

I have been in the painting business for 30 years. Like many of us “old dogs” change is a foreign word analogous to using waterborne finishes on interior trim. Nevertheless, I would like to think wisdom is one of our strengths, and the waterborne finishes are actually quite nice, therefore I have accepted change into my business operations as well.

April is for Renewal, New Life and Donation

April is a time of renewal and new life.  It is also National Donate Life month.  There is a great need for organ and tissue donation; in fact the need vastly exceeds the available donors.  According to the Donate Life America website, over 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants.   In 2011, […]

LeadCheck for Plaster and Drywall

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that LeadCheck is now approved to test drywall or plaster.  You can verify this by going to http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/testkit.htm This approval was in the works back in September of 2010, but wasn’t made official until a few days ago.  It seems LeadCheck had to do some of their own test, […]