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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...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco Painting Contractor Notes: How to Apply Gold Leaf
(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 removable tissue pages for easy gilding Read more...
Ornamental Victorian Plaster in San Francisco
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 out lornakollmeyer.com
Glidden Paints
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 Imperial Chemical Industries). The brand Read more...
Zero VOC Encasement Products
I'd like to mention a neat product called prepLESS by Global Encasement, an encasement product for covering lead and asbestos. PrepLess was designed to "encapsulate" lead and asbestos, and it sticks, holds, breathes and stretches, making it a very tenacious and durable coating (according to the manufacturer). We first applied it to a badly weathered (chalky, crackled, peeling) stucco exterior, and Read more...
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