Hiring A Contractor For Commercial Painting
Normally in the painting world, the one where you are painting buildings and not works of art, you have three types of painting. Residential is the painting of someone's home. Industrial is painting of factories and other areas where dirt will collect and special precautions and paints will have to be used. Commercial painting is probably the one you see the most because that is painting of office complexes, malls, retail stores, and anything where the public would be going. Some people will also put government and institutions in with commercial painting or they would just call it institutional painting. When you first hear about commercial painting it sounds like a pretty sweet gig. You get to go to the mall and paint the walls. But there is so much more to commercial painting and every company that hires a commercial painting contractor should know some guidelines they should follow to make sure they get the best contractor for the job.
Always Take Bids
Never hire someone for commercial painting out of the phone book. Always take at least three bids from commercial painting contractors so that you can see the difference in pricing between the various companies. Make sure you make the specifications of your job very clear and always make the communication line open in case any of the contractors have questions. You do not want to have someone complain that the bid was not fair because they never got their question answered.
References
Always ask for references from every contractor you accept bids from and always check those references for the winning bidder. It is one thing for a company to tell you that they painted the inside of the Empire State Building and it is another thing to find out that they actually only painted one floor of railings and did a terrible job. So always ask for references and always check them before awarding the job to anyone.
Experience
This is your business we are talking about so make sure that anyone you are hiring to change the look of your business knows what they are doing. Ask all bidders for a list of previous jobs and contact the owners of those jobs to see how the contractor worked and how the owner was satisfied or not satisfied. Make sure the contractor includes pictures of previous jobs. Also make sure they include the names and resumes of their supervisory staff as well as you will want to check on them as well. This is your business' look and you should be prepared to make sure that the people you hire can do the job.
