subject: How To Look For Painting Contractors Seattle [print this page] First of all, before you start looking for painting contractors Seattle or anywhere else you need them, you'll want to understand a bit about painting a home or out building. First, if it's new construction, you'll want to make sure everything has been prepped correctly, the same goes for older homes, and even for those places that are just getting trim or other types of simple paint jobs.
If you don't hire a contractor with experience in the type of paint job you need, you could be sorry in a very short amount of time. If the paint is done wrong, if the siding is not prepped correctly or if it's not sealed correctly you could be sorry in under a year.
Usually within the first year, especially in a rainy area such as Seattle, if the siding has not been sealed, you'll soon find problems within the inner walls of your home. Water will soon leak into cracks and crevices that weren't caulked properly. Meaning that you'll have the beginning of dry rot before you know it.
If you're window frames are older, if they do not have the frame caulking filled in properly, you'll soon have drafts as even more of it chips away, leaving the window edges exposed to the elements. The same can be said for any missing siding, especially in older homes.
A good painting contractor will take a look around your whole home before giving you a bid. Then the bid will include prep work such as caulking all windows, caulking all corner siding, repairing caulking where needed and other types of prep work like washing the outside completely. This is all before they begin on the home itself.
So don't worry so much about color when it comes time to paint the house. Find painting contractors Seattle or wherever you live that understand it's not just about the color or the paint, but also, about the prep work.
