Color Touch Painting
Color Touch Painting
A good house painter typically picks high quality paints to complete their residential painting projects for their clients. Color Touch Painting offers painting services in San Ramon, San Francisco, Alamo, Danville and other bay area cities using high quality paints. Using top brand primer is as important as picking the right paint brand. We at Read more...
One of our house painting tips we like to share is how to paint lines that look good and professional. With years of experience as painting contractor, we've developed a painting method that will help you when completing your painting projects. Many people rely on masking tape to create clean paint lines when painting a Read more...
Have you ever painted an exterior--it looks great--then the next morning there are amber streaks or droplets marring the newly painted surface? As a Bay Area painting contractor, I often encounter "surfactant leaching". Surfactant leaching, or exudation, occurs when water soluble components exude out of the paint. This happens with all water-based paints, but is Read more...
Our professional house painter recently painted a baby's room in San Ramon. The mother-to-be wanted vertical stripes in alternating shades of pink. We used a snap line to create clean, vertical lines, then applied "Scotch-blue 2080" tape to the lines. One could also use "Frog Tape" for this purpose, as both brands offer clean paint Read more...
When discussing interior painting jobs, clients often ask our professional house painter whether they should paint or re-finish the floors first. From my experience as a house painter and painting contractor, my advice is generally to re-finish the floors first, then paint afterward. This because sanding of floors invariably creates a ton of dust, which would Read more...
When considering exterior polyurethane products (either clear or pigmented), don't forget to check out places like West Marine, or online sites like Hamilton Marine. (store.hamiltonmarine.com). Last time we varnished a natural wood exterior in San Francisco, we used "Epiphanes", and found it to be an excellent product. We purchased ours from West Marine, but also Read more...
(Newel Post with a coat of "sizing") (A layer of gold leaf applied...) My team of professional painters is often asked to apply gold leaf to Victorian exteriors. Here are some tips: First off, I choose patent gold leaf, which means that the gold is actually lightly adhered to the Read more...
I was talking to a potential client and they told me about a San Francisco restoration artist who's created a line of ornamental plaster (cartouches, scrolls, onlays, medallions..) They will be using one of her Cartouches on the front of their San Francisco home. Her name is Lorna Kollmeyer. She's got a great website! Check Read more...
An interesting thing about the new Glidden Stores. Over a decade ago, several US paint brands (Fuller O'Brien, Sinclair, and Glidden among them) were bought out by the international giant ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). Former Fuller Obrien/Sinclair locations were converted into ICI/Dulux stores. Dulux is an internationally available brand of paint, produced by AkzoNobel (formerly Read more...
We recently used XIM Peel Bond’s Trim Magic, a low VOC, high-build primer, recommended for smoothing out rough surfaces including crackled paint and T1-11. We used it on a peeling stucco substrate to help blend the patches. We found that the product leveled well, and formed a smooth, flexible, low-lustre film. Recommended dry film thickness Read more...
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