Have you ever heard the term “to a hammer everything looks like a nail?”
Potentially you have hired a painter in the past and you felt like they just painted over everything – maybe they missed an outlet cover or two, maybe they painted over damaged wood. Either way, it seemed like to a painter, everything needed a paint brush…
Table of Contents
- Hire a One-Stop-Specialty-Shop
- Time and Money
- Quality
- Conclusion
Hire a One-Stop-Specialty-Shop
When hiring a home services company, it helps to find a company that specializes in more than one trade. Not just the local handyman, but someone that truly specializes in more than one thing, has a trained staff with versatile talents, with one common goal – to create a solution that solves your problem in one go, not one solution that causes another problem.
This is a comprehensive, complementary approach to Home Services.
At Rogall + Co. our carpentry team specializes in carpentry but they are also trained on the basics of painting, and vice versa. Every one of our operation team members, whether they are a senior level carpenter or a paint team apprentice, has an understanding of how their role supports one shared goal of creating lasting repairs.
Time and Money
Whether you need carpentry repairs or just exterior painting, the two projects go together. Wherever carpentry repairs are done, painting will be required to help the repairs blend in with the rest of your home.
For proper paint adhesion, oftentimes carpentry is required; therefore, wouldn’t you want to hire the same team to complete the project, rather than bringing in two separate trade companies?
If the two teams are working together it’s going to minimize the time it takes to get the work done and the cost since the two teams working together requires less coordination efforts.
Furthermore, if the teams are able to support each other through shared knowledge, there will be greater attention to detail and quality control. Wouldn’t it be nice if, to a painter, not everything needs painting until it is properly repaired?
Quality
At Rogall + Co., we create a harmonious connection between our two divisions, carpentry and painting. By studying how the elements affect your substrates, we’re able to create processes that ensure the longevity of the carpentry repairs or the wood already on your home.
Take our paint process for example, the typical process for painting after repairs is to, (1) have a carpentry team come in and repair any damaged boards that need to be replaced. Then (2) painters will follow up and paint over any board that has exposed wood.
But then what about the backside of the board, or the joints where the boards connect? Those are unsealed and not painted, so that’s just going to lead to more wood rot all over again.
Instead what if the paint team and carpentry team worked together and the paint crew was able to seal all joints and all exposed wood before the board was installed on the house. Imagine if the inside of all miter joints were primed, painted, and caulked prior to being installed. That would result in less wood damage in your future, and a more seamless paint job. All in a fraction of the time, and the cost.
Conclusion
No matter who you hire, always consider the information above and look for a team that specializes in the elements and how the elements affect your home, not just how the elements affect one trade. In San Luis Obispo County in particular, it’s critical to find a home services contractor that understands the local climate and can ensure that any repairs they complete are in the interest of not just the paint job, or the carpentry repair, but your entire home as a symbiotic system.
