Repainting your home is one of the easiest (if not the easiest) and most affordable ways to give your home a facelift. A new coat of paint will transform the appeal of your home and instantly improve its value, says Action Properties. This is true even if the only thing you do is repaint the building.
But repainting your home also comes with making some important decisions. For instance, you have to decide what colors you want to paint the building; should you retain the old colors or move to something trendier? The colors you choose for your home matter.
The other decision you have to make every time you repaint your home is whether to paint the building yourself or hire a professional painter to do it. Many homeowners like to think that painting their home is something they can do as well as a professional.
The main reason a lot of homeowners DIY the painting of their home is to save money. The other reason is many owners think of painting as nothing more than applying coats of color to the surfaces of a building. But is this thinking correct?
Is it true that you will save yourself money when you undertake the painting of your home by yourself? Is it true that painting a house is easy; all you need is to know how to apply a coat of paint using a roller? Should you paint your home yourself or hire a professional painter?
Why you should hire a professional painter to paint your home
There are several reasons to hire a professional to paint your home. This post highlights only six of them, with the most important one – paint preparation – coming last. Here are the reasons why it makes economic sense to hire a professional painter.
● Expert advice
Professional painters are in touch with the current trends. They know the paint colors and color schemes that will improve your home’s value the most. The professional will help you think beyond your personal style preferences to what buyers actually want.
● Professional finish
Nothing ruins a paint job like seeing brush strokes or roller marks in the finished work. Bent lines and smudge marks will ruin the paint job. A professional painter can help you avoid those. Moreover, when you hire a professional, you do not have to limit yourself to simple designs; you can set your imagination free.
● Warranty
When you paint your home yourself and something goes wrong with the paint soon afterward, the cost of fixing the problem is on you. However, with a professional painter, you can simply inform the painter and they will have the problem fixed at no cost to you.
● Safety
Painting a house can be dangerous, especially when working on the building’s exterior. You expose yourself to the risk of falls and other injuries when you paint the home yourself. Professional painters know the safety measure to take and have the equipment to implement those measures.
● Save time and money
One of the worst things about painting your home by yourself is how much time it takes. Amateur painters typically underestimate the time it takes to paint a building. They often end up taking more time than they anticipated and losing money in the process. But a professional will save you from all that.
● Paint preparation
This is the most important reason to hire a professional painter to repaint your home. What is paint preparation or surface preparation? To answer the question, we first need to ask this question; why do we even paint houses in the first place?
The main reason we paint a house is to give it value and preserve that value. The paint on the surfaces of your home is its first line of defense against the elements. Without that coating of paint, sunlight, heat, wind, rain, snow, and microorganisms would wreak havoc on the building.
Paint can prevent this but only if that paint is properly applied. In order for the paint on the surfaces of your home to adhere well and serve as a layer of protection for the building, you need proper surface preparation. This is all the work that is done before paint is actually applied.
Surface preparation involves the steps a professional painter takes to remove impurities on the surface and fix any defects on the walls. This process takes up more than 70% of the time and effort that goes into painting a home. Applying the coat of paint is less than 30% of the work.
Good surface preparation prevents premature paint failure. It is more important than the colors you choose or the quality of your paint. Surface preparation is a tedious process and various surfaces have their own surface preparation requirements. It is what determines the quality of the finished work.
The reason you need a professional painter is that a professional painter knows the best way to prepare the surfaces in your home before applying paint. Getting a professional to do this work will help you fix the damage you did not know existed. It will save you money in the long run.
