What Goes Down In A House Painting Job?

Last worker to intervene on the building, the painter dresses facades, walls and ceilings. He brushes the finishes and embellishments of surfaces. Let’s take a look in the world of house painting services and know it better.

The painter mounts the scaffolding and the trestles if necessary, provides protection to avoid splashing and installs his supplies (plasters, brushes, rollers and poles). He prepares the supports manually or mechanically by tearing off the old wallpapers and by stripping the paints with a torch, with steam or high pressure machines. He cleans surfaces to be painted by dusting or washing. He refines the cracks, remakes the damaged casts, coats and pumps the surfaces to be painted. He provides a protective and decorative coating: paint, wax, varnish, resin, wallpaper, fabric, linoleum and carpets. He sometimes has to install carpentry and glazing. According to his skills, the painter deposits and reassembles sanitary ware and simple electrical appliances.

House painting services also work on construction or renovation projects. There are different specialties in painting; Painter facade, painter finisher, painter ravine. The associated trades are: painter decorator, coater.

If the sanding phase is painful and tiring, the painter appreciates the finishes which give him the opportunity to transform the site and to perform quality work. He then has the opportunity to exercise his creativity when realizing effects of matter or elements of decoration. For example, he realizes several types of stucco and paintings: wiped, whitewash, frieze, stretched lacquer, patina. By advising the customer on colours and textures; he immerses himself into people's lives.

The painter can work at high altitude. Wearing protective gear (shoes, gloves, helmet, and harness) is required. At the will of the building sites, the painter makes sometimes long hours. Schedules are regular and sometimes early morning. Paints contain a lot of toxic substances. This job is not recommended for people with respiratory problems. If painting is not your specialty, stick to house painting services. 

The qualities required to be a house painter are technical knowledge, knowledge of tools and materials, knowledge of safety rules, versatility and also aesthetic sense. And when it comes to house painting the painter should also be manual, clever, meticulous, accurate, watchful, healthy, clean, rigorous, dynamic, patient, volunteer, resistant and independent. Painting jobs are not for people who suffer from dizziness since it requires the person to go at certain heights and also for those who do not like routine.

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