So you need some help painting in NH

Hello I'm Rob and I own Robert Codman Painting and Wallcoverings in Hancock, NH. Most of the time when I tell people what I do they always have a follow up question about some project they are doing, going to do, or did but had problems. So here I am just going to start posting on what I have been doing on certain jobs because when I need to know what to do I look back on my experiance, so now we all get a chance to look back and use, (or not use) my experiance.

The last few days I relearned a valuable leson that has proven to help business. I was painting a living room and hall for an older customer who has done all of her own painting for years but now just does not want to do it. What this really means is that I have a lot of work ahead. See there was a lot of "roll over" on trim work and doors. "Roll over" is the term I use when paint get built up on the edge of something. When an unexperiance painter tries to paint say a door, the paint will pile up on the edge and dry as a bulge or a run. This can happen on all edges and is really what separates someone who paints from a painter, it also is what separates a paying job from a job you can be proud of. What I mean by this is that I spent a bit of time scraping and sanding off all of this "roll over" from the homeowners painting and it definately took more time than alloted in my estimate. The reward was that even though the homeowner didn't posibly notice what I did they did notice that everytning looked clean and sharp when I was finished. This is the detail that makes someone happy they spent the money on something they normally would have done themselves. I also painted out two closets she emptied but didn't have in the bid. This one worked out because I had enough paint to do it but could have caused some real problems if it used up needed paint. We probably put in an extra hour on the closets and I did a quick sand on a mantle that was covered in years of paint splatter and used some Polyshades I had in the van to bring that back to a new look. One last thing was to replace the painted and stained outlet covers with new ones, a three dollar investment.

Now I probably lost 60 plus dollars on these "extras" but what it did for the overall look of the room was priceless. I know that I will get another room in that house to paint and I also know she will tell all her friends about our work plus she made us cookies...