Often, during my estimate appointment visits, homeowners ask me job related questions. I think they ask them to get some confidence that their potential painter will do a good job on their project. Homeowners should ask questions, and this is definitely a good time to ask them, but the curious thing is that the most often ask question is about paint quality and material manufacturer. Well, using good quality paint is important, but the fact of the matter is that cost of paint material constitutes less than 10% of the total job cost. Most of the job is labor. That is, over 90%, of what they will be paying for, will go to paying for painters time doing actual work. And a very big chunk of that time, and what is going to largely determine how well this paint will look over time (no matter the paint manufacturer), will be spent (at least on my jobs) doing service preparation. And yet not so many questions about that.
