re: House Painters...Why do they all look like they've just got released from prison?

Have you ever painted OP? Either you haven't or you are the dumbest son of a bitch posting on this site. Maybe they should break out the new clothes everyday so they can get paint on them genius.

Painting is messy. Clearly you aren't familiar with manual labor.

I have been a residential contractor for a few decades and have never had a painter that wasn't an addict. It can be meth or alcohol but they are all addicted to something.

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How much do they get paid?

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Some of them can make serious money especially if they know how to use a sprayer without getting overspray everywhere and can finish trim that looks silky smooth.

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I've never seen a Profesional paint crew

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Even the ones that work in the plants painting tanks that get inspected are trashy looking. Just comes with the profession.



Everyone thinks they can paint but they can't. There is a skill to the good ones.

The real-time and quality comes in the finish on things like cabinets and trim. That's when you can tell if you have someone that dabbles in meth or a full-on addict.

Friend,

Your experience is completely the opposite of mine. I know three professional painters very well and two of them are teetotalers. The third might have a sip of beer every now and then, which I am trying to get him to stop. These men have never been ensnared by the harder drugs discussed here. They are men of decorum, excellent citizens who make our city and our nation a more beautiful and democratic land. Their handiwork is a reflection of the order God brought at creation when all previously was a jumbled abyss. Likewise, their lives show an order and sharpness reflected in their fine work. I suggest we, the members of the OT, create a national home painters day, perhaps some time this month, so that we can rightfully thank and show our appreciation for this clearly underappreciated group of laborers.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

I don’t reckon most of y’all have done much painting, but standing on a ladder, looking up all day, repetitive motion, painting base boards, etc, that shite hurts.

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I don’t reckon most of y’all have done much painting, but standing on a ladder, looking up all day, repetitive motion, painting base boards, etc, that shite hurts.

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I've done more than my share of painting, both interior and exterior. Give me interior every day, all day compared to exterior.

Outside in the elements, standing for hours on end on step ladders or even worse, extension ladders with a tinier platform for your feet. That crap gets old fast.

Then if using a Makita 5 in. sander/grinder removing bad paint, you should be wearing a full blown respirator and eye protection at the very least.

You think wearing a cheesy face mask during Covid was no fun, wear a carbon filtered respirator all day long and tell me how you like it.

And then while doing all this sanding, the dust is getting everywhere, down your shirt, in your ears, covering exposed skin and sticking to it due to sweating.

And if you're lucky, nobody will call the Inspectors and you can just put the ladder up and prep away, but if they do and they come out, chances are you will have to tarp the house from the gutter line to the ground. Ever try to prep under a tarp with no breeze blowing and all that dust staying confined????

Then caulking under weatherboards and along trim lines getting splinters when leveling the caulk for a nice finish.

The painting is the gravy part of the job. It's all the prep work that is a killer if the job is done right.

I just had a dude come out for an estimate to redo my deck. He looked professional, so now I’m worried.

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How much do they get paid?

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Pays pretty good we had one that was a former IT manager give up six figure job to have his own painting business. We also had one that drank Dr. Tichenor’s all day and stayed piss drunk but minty fresh.

I painted houses during the summers in high school... Your descriptions are not far off. I left them alone and they didn't want to have anything to do with me. One day I was cleaning up the site... I found a paint can in the bushes.. I picked it up and it was heavy... I opened it and there a giant turds in there... One the guys got pissed with me and I shouted back that he should have put in the trash can. That was the only disagreement we had...

What is a “professional” paint crew?

You need them to wear collared shirt?

I wouldn’t give a frick if an awesome paint crew had face tats and painted shirtless. If they are good, who gives a frick