A painter is a tradesman responsible for the application of paint for decorating apartments and buildings. They are also known as a decorator or house painter. The purpose of painting is to provide good visual effect and increasing the longevity of a building and to protect it from damage by water, rust, corrosion, insects, and mold.
Professional and qualified painting services are getting phenomenally popular and it is observed to have remarkable growth too during the last decade. The painter service now has become highly competitive one due to the entry of the leading painting companies with their sophisticated painting machinery and software for painting in a professional way. They provide separate painting service team who are trained extensively to perform excellent, economic as well as fast painting job at a marginally higher cost to the clients.
At the same time, there are private domestic painters also who have no professional training and have entered this profession based on hand on experience gathered by working as a helper. These painters generally carry out painting which is somewhat cheaper and painting is done manually.
For multi-storied housing complex, property management agencies hire full-time Painter for the painting of the buildings. The responsibility of the painter includes painting multi-family apartments. Painting work focuses on interiors. However, occasionally exterior painting work is also necessary, which involves multiple safety issues as the work is performed at a high level. Experienced Painters are demanded in such cases who have practice in working with high rise buildings with lifting and painting facility.
Selection of paint by a software application
To decide the color and style of the paint is a great headache for every client and they are most of the time not satisfied when the painting is finished. To solve this issue recent trend is to view different designs and color composition by means of application software.
Some example of which is given below:
Recent phenomenal development of painting is the application of software used by the big painting companies. This enables the client to view the virtual reflection of the painting, its design, and colour matching virtually on the PC screen. This enables them to select the correct style and color perfectly.
Stratosphere’s Paint Visualizer Software
It is a free online paint visualizer software. With this software, you can easily upload interior and exterior photos of your home and then apply and compare hundreds of different actual paint colour applications and styles and can select the correct one.
Benjamin Moore’s Personal Colour Viewer
It is also a free online software. This offers sample rooms that you can mix and match colours. You can upload your room layout also and apply various properties of the software to it.
Sherwin-Williams Colo Snap Visualizer
It is a similar software as stated above. Additionally, it can suggest color themes. This is very helpful for clients undoubtedly.
Painter responsibilities and duties
The responsibilities and duties are important for the scope of work and cost. Here you should outline the functions to the painter who will perform their task on a regular basis.
Examples of responsibilities
Experience in painting interiors of apartments, town homes and other multi-family dwellings
Experience of work in coordination with other construction professionals, such as carpenters, electricians, and plumbers.
Protection by covering all nearby furnishers and building materials before and during every painting job. This includes carpets, cabinetry, outlet covers, lighting fixtures etc.
Experience in collaborating with other professional house painters with bigger jobs.
Practice self-supervision on small jobs and ensure you to complete each project efficiently and within the time schedule.
Painter qualifications and skills
The most important aspect is the preferred skills for the painter to be selected. This may include:
Education
Previous job experience in painting high rise buildings
Certifications and technical skills
Knowledge and expertise of using online painting software
Profession of a painter is a challenging job and expertise of painting in combination with using advanced painting machinery and computer knowledge is of great advantage for a painter in this completive age.
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