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Bay Area Painting Contractor likes the New Benjamin Moore store in Danville
Bay Area painting contractors like Color Touch like to see that a new Benjamin Moore store opened in Danville. This store is part of the local Creative Paint chain. Creative Paint already has a few other locations in San Francisco, and the East Bay. They recently opened a store at 688 San Ramon Valley Blvd. in Danville. A great location Read more...
How To Paint Professional Looking Lines
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 room, but the results are Read more...
Insl-x Cabinet Coat for San Ramon Painting Projects
Insl-x Cabinet Coat is a great choice for kitchen or bathroom cabinet painting. As professional painting contractors in San Ramon, we care about the quality of the painting products we use. With environmental regulations limiting the manufacture of oil-based paints and polyurethanes, many companies are producing low-VOC versions. Often these are "hybrids" that are oil-based, yet water clean-up. One product Read more...
Surfactant Leaching
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 more of a visual problem Read more...
Interior Painting Tips from a Bay Area Painting Contractor
Interior painting tips
Customizing paint colors on a San Francisco Victorian
Let's talk about customizing paint Colors San Francisco Victorian: Color Touch just finished painting a San Francisco Edwardian and we are very psyched about how the colors worked out! Initially the owner chose two greens: one for main body and one as an accent; an off-white trim color (accented by a mustard/yellow), and a red, accented by gold. San Read more...
Painting Stripes in a Bedroom
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 lines with minimal "bleed through". Read more...
Interior Painting or Flooring: which comes first?
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 then be clinging to your Read more...
Poor paint adhesion
Of all the problems that can arise in a painting project, poor paint adhesion is perhaps the worst! When new paint fails to stick, it just sucks! Yet as a San Francisco Painting Contractor, I see plenty of interiors with peeling trim paint. The most common cause of this is the application of a water-based paint over a dense, glossy Read more...
Using Top-side Varnish on San Francisco Wood Exteriors
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 check out the Hamilton Marine Read more...
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