by Sara N | Feb 23, 2023 | Exterior Home Painting, Painting, Painting Project
… This Halloween, Your Decorations Can Have A Fresh Coat Of LOVE
Here at Imhoff Fine Residential Painting Company, we’ve been keeping a list. And you might be on that list.
(No, we’re not referring to that kind of list. If we were keeping that kind of list, and if you were possibly on it, we certainly wouldn’t refer to it.)
We’re keeping a list of all the very interesting things we’ve been privileged to paint (or stain) for our cherished customers.
We’ve painted or stained all kinds of walls and trim, every type of cabinet and stairway banister, and just about every surface you can think of, inside or outside our customers’ homes.
We’ve done lots of commercial jobs, too. Through our Paint It Forward program, we’ve put a fresh coat of LOVE on schools, community centers, and several other buildings which house worthy programs for needy folks whose causes wouldn’t usually be able to afford our services.
We even painted an historic train (as in, choo-choo) which was being restored up in the mountains! (You should see it… it’s a beaut!).
But, until recently, we’d never painted a monster. “We have a twelve-foot-tall monster in our front yard,” a caller recently told us, “and it’s looking pretty faded. We need some scary-looking green paint.”
(If you have a twelve-foot-tall monster in your yard, we thought to ourselves, paint is probably the least of your needs.)
Turns out the monster was not a live, child-and-pet-consuming menace, but a cool Halloween decoration which had faded in the sun after several years of tricking and treating the neighborhood.
“Does it come apart into pieces that will fit into the back of a pickup truck?” we asked, once we figured out what the customer was looking for.
“It does!” they said.
“Then YES! We can pick it up, bring it to our state-of-the-art spray booth, and apply a fresh coat of scary- looking LOVE to your cherished, uh, monster.”
“What about our fifteen-foot skeleton?” the caller asked. “We’ve had it out there for a few years, too, and it’s not as fresh and scary looking as it once was. If we break it down into its smaller components, can
you whiten it in your spray booth?”
“Yes, of course, it would be our pleasure to bleach your bones!” we replied.
“We also have some other little decorations that could probably use some freshening-up, like our tombstones, and this one witch we have which we usually stick to our privacy fence so it looks like she
crashed into it. You can spray those in your booth too, can’t you?”
We can. And that’s how we ended up driving down the road with a truck full of scary stuff, from a red- eyed faded green monster head to a skeleton’s leg bone, which dangled humorously off the back of the truck.
Talk about interesting painting projects!
This is definitely going to make the list.
Thanks to our spray booth, we can paint just about anything you can think of… and, as it turns out, we can paint many things you would never think would need a fresh coat of LOVE. So even if it’s just your boring old patio furniture, or some blinds in the house that need painting, one call to Imhoff Fine Residential Painting paints it all!
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by dybvirtual | Feb 17, 2022 | Painting
Why It’s Not Always Best to Buy the Most Expensive Paint in Denver Metro, CO.
You may know that in considering all of the aspects of your future painting project, the cost of the paint itself is going to be one of the more expensive elements – and that’s even when you’re looking to purchase paint that is more moderately priced, as it were.
However, if you take the idea that buying paint that is cheaper necessarily means that it is lower in quality (and depending on how cheap you go on the paint, there’s a good reason that this is the case) this doesn’t mean that the other extreme is true – that it’s best to buy the most expensive paint.
Today we are going to go over some of the ideas that are often thought of in regards to the most expensive paint, and why it’s not the best idea to get it just because it happens to be the most expensive.
Let’s have a good look at the reasons why it’s not always best to buy the most expensive paint in Denver Metro, CO.
1. It’s Likely Barely Better Than Moderately Priced Paint
At the crux of the discussion that we are going to have here today is that when you’re looking at various kinds of paint and what they are going to do for you, the most expensive paint that you can buy is only going to be a small amount better than moderately priced paint, while being significantly more expensive.
There are a lot of qualities that you’re going to want to look for when you’re thinking about painting your home, among them being the very important one of knowing if you are going to be painting the exterior or interior of your paint.
From there you have to think about what room you are going to be painting – depending on what room you’re going to be painting, the kind of paint that you are going to be using is going to be just a little bit different — the paint that you use to paint in your bathroom is not going to be the same as the paint that you would use to paint in your dining room, for example.
2. You May Want To Repaint Sooner Than Not For Other Reasons
Though of course a lot of people are going to like the idea of spending time painting a room of their home or even the exterior of their home and doing everything they can to ensure that the paintwork lasts as long as possible, sometimes people just want to paint and then have plans to paint again only a few years later.
However, these plans mean that you are going to have a paint job that is only going to last a few years, and if that is the case then one of the biggest arguments in favor of using more expensive paint sort of falls apart as you are only going to be repainting sooner than not.
With the timeline for the next painting project only looming a few years away (such as if you know that you’re going to want to change up the color of the room) there’s no reason to use the most expensive paint available when a moderate price paint would do the work just as well.
3. Sometimes It’s Just Brand
Do you know how sometimes you go to a grocery store and see a box of cereal that’s a dollar cheaper but looks exactly the same as the one next to it with dancing bears on it?
That is sometimes the case with paint as well — having a nice name on the label can sometimes increase the price of the paint by a good amount.
So just because it has the name of a big paint manufacturer doesn’t mean that it’s of a higher quality than perhaps a paint that was locally made by a smaller company that isn’t so well known.
Don’t settle for just any painter when you can get the attention to detail and professionalism from Imhoff Fine Residential Painting in Denver Metro, CO. Call us today to speak with one of our professional color consultants.
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by dybvirtual | Jan 21, 2022 | Painting
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Prior To Buying Paint in Denver Metro, CO
In any given painting project when you are painting, you are going to need to make use of paint – of course you are, it is a painting project after all.
When you are looking to purchase paint, you should of course not just go with the very first paint that you see, and naturally you aren’t going to want to just choose a paint purely on its price – there are many other variables that go into such a major decision.
With that being the case, let’s look at five questions to ask yourself prior to buying paint in Denver Metro, CO
1. Is This Being Used Outside Or Inside?
One of the most fundamental questions that you’re going to be asking yourself or rather that you should ask yourself prior to purchasing your paint is the question of whether you’re going to be making use of the paint on the outside of the inside of your house.
The reason that this question is so important is that there’s a world of difference between the paint that you use on the inside of your home and the outside starting from the kind of protection that you can expect to get when you use an exterior paint – being that the exterior paints that you use can have such qualities as being strong against weather elements whereas interior paints are not going to have them.
By contrast, exterior paints are not going to have some of the important qualities that you will find in interior paints, such as the kinds of paint you might want to use in a dining room that will be easier to clean than paints that you will be using in other rooms (more on this later.
For this reason, you should stick to picking interior paints for your interior paint jobs and exterior paints for your exterior paint jobs.
2. For What Room Is This Going To Be Used?
It’s important to know what room your paint is going to be used to paint, as there are various kinds of paint used for interior painting and you are going to want to make use of the appropriate one depending on the room.
A bathroom, for example, is typically going to be a bit more humid than other rooms in the house and so you have to take that into consideration when choosing your paint – will the paint you use be good against humidity and therefore not allow mildew and mold to grow?
If not, you should reconsider that particular paint for the room.
3. Will There Be A Lot Of Traffic?
An important question to ask yourself when you’re looking to paint a room is if you’re going to see a lot of traffic hit that room.
If you aren’t and therefore won’t have to do a lot of cleaning to the room, you may want to make use of flat paint.
If you are, however, a glossier paint is going to be your friend as it will be easier to clean – wipe with a cloth that’s moist, in some cases.
4. Am I Sensitive To VOC’s?
As you are going to be making use of the rooms being painted, you should ask yourself if you are particularly sensitive to volatile organic compounds, which are present in a lot of paints.
If it turns out that you are sensitive, you may want to consider switching to a paint that is low in containing these VOC’s.
5. What Colors Would Work Well?
Lastly, one of the biggest questions that you’re going to have to answer in painting whether you are painting the exterior or interior of your home is this – what color or colors are going to work well?
This is something we could easily explore in a number of articles on the subject of colors in painting and we shall return to it again.
Don’t settle for just any painter when you can get the attention to detail and professionalism from Imhoff Fine Residential Painting in Denver Metro, CO. Call us today to speak with one of our professional color consultants.
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by dybvirtual | Sep 5, 2021 | Painting
7 Safety Tips For Using A Ladder While Painting Your Home in Denver Metro, CO
In the course of painting your home, you will on occasion find yourself needing to access higher areas that cannot be so easily reached – with the height of some rooms towering over the typical person looking to paint it, equipment is needed to make sure the painting goes well.
One such piece of equipment is your typical ladder — and when you are careful with the ladder you can be sure that you will have a painting project that goes well and is safe as well.
Let’s now look at and consider seven safety tips for using a ladder while painting your home in Denver Metro, CO.
1. Try To Get Help
The first thing that a lot of people don’t realize about using a ladder, in general, is that it’s considerably safer when a second person is in place to stabilize the ladder.
Indeed, having a second person there to stabilize the ladder will make it considerably more secure — and of course it’s not always going to be possible, but you should nonetheless try to have said the second person there if it is at all possible.
This doesn’t mean you should abandon a painting project if you cannot secure a second person but rather that you should be even more careful with the rest of the tips.
2. Do Not Stand On The Top Rung
In terms of getting up on your ladder, there’s one place that is more dangerous than the other parts of the ladder and that is the top rung.
Of course, some would say that you should not even get on the top four rungs of the ladder however you can see for yourself what seems to be the best way to go about treating your ladder in particular.
3. Get The Right Ladder
In terms of painting your home, you are going to have to be careful to select the right sort of ladder that is going to be appropriate for your particular painting job.
Specifically, you have to get a ladder that is of the right height for the work that you’re going to do — if the ladder you are planning to use is too short for the work you are putting yourself in danger because the extra missing height will require some way to get up higher and those means are typically not so safe.
4. Three Points Of Contact
One thing that is going to make your use of a ladder while painting is to make sure that you have at least three points of contact with the ladder at all times.
These are typically the two hands and at least one of the feet, but you can just imagine any number of combinations of hands and feet will work.
5. Inspect Before Use
The ladder that you’re going to use for your painting project is going to be only as good as its biggest flaw and the only way that you can be sure that your ladder is as flawless as possible (within reason) is to inspect the ladder before you use it.
You will want to make sure that there is no damage to the ladder and that no rung is wet — that could easily cause you to fall off of it while you are using it.
6. Dry And Level Foundation
The foundation for the ladder must be perfectly level when you are putting down your ladder.
Though you might think it’s not so important, it can make the difference between a dangerous paint job and a safe one.
7. Reposition Only When Off
Lastly, you cannot reposition a ladder when a person is on it — or even worse try to reposition yourself when you are on the ladder.
The best thing you can do is to get off of the ladder fully before relocating it.
Don’t settle for just any painter when you can get the attention to detail and professionalism from Imhoff Fine Residential Painting in Denver Metro, CO. Call us today to speak with one of our professional color consultants.
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by dybvirtual | Sep 1, 2021 | Painting
5 Tips For Painting Your Home Like A Professional in Denver Metro, CO
When you’re looking to paint your home, whether you’re going to be painting the exterior or interior of it, you are bound to wonder if the way that you’re doing this is the right way to do them — you might even ponder how you are doing in comparison to the professional home painting contractor.
Of course, it’s not going to be possible to get quite the same exact results as a professional painting contractor (like the professionals at Imhoff Painting) since they have years of experience that inform the things that they do and have done similar painting projects many times over.
There are, however, certain painting tips that you can take into consideration to help you paint better — and more like a professional painting contractor.
Let’s now look at and consider five tips for painting your home like a professional in Denver Metro, CO.
1. Cut In Before Using Paint Roller
Of course, you may well be aware of the power of the paint roller, the painting instrument meant to spread the paint evenly over the surface of your walls.
The thing that people don’t seem to realize is that you have to cut in first as it were before you make use of the paint roller — cutting in refers to using a paintbrush to carefully paint the walls near the floor, the ceiling, and the edges of the room.
By doing this you will be able to better control how the walls look, painting-wise.
2. Make An Educated Color Choice
There are many ways that you can choose the color that you’re going to be painting your home, but not all of them are going to be equally valid as they were.
If for example you just go to the paint store and look at the paint switches that they have — that’s not really going to do it as the way the color looks in your home is not the way it’s going to look on those switches in the paint store.
If however you get small samples of paint and paint a little bit on the wall you’ll be able to tell pretty quickly how the paint is going to look in a number of lighting conditions.
3. Sand Properly Before Painting
One big way that the typical home painter paints and the way that professional painting contractors do the same kind of work is that your typical professional painting contractor spends a bit more time making sure that the surface that is being painted is as smooth as possible.
One way that you can do this is to make good use of a sanding tool (manual or electric) to sand the surface before you begin the painting process, as well as between the different steps of the painting project.
The key is that you’re not looking to roughly sand and get a lot of material off of the wall but rather a gentle sanding in between the different stages so that the surface is always a certain kind of smooth.
4. Primer Before Paint
Another way that you are going to be able to make the surface of your various areas that are being painted is to make use of a primer before you are to apply the first coat of paint.
This is key because the paint will adhere much better to primer than it does to the bare surface that you are going to paint and the paint will stay on a lot better and for a lot longer.
5. Allow Time To Dry
Lastly, one key trick that painting contractors know is that you have to make sure that enough time passes for surfaces to dry.
Without doing this, you are allowing for the possibility of painting surfaces to get painting issues — and you are going to want to avoid such issues.
Don’t settle for just any painter when you can get the attention to detail and professionalism from Imhoff Fine Residential Painting in Denver Metro, CO. Call us today to speak with one of our professional color consultants.
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by dybvirtual | Jan 17, 2021 | Painting
5 Things To Know About High Quality Paint in Denver Metro, CO
When you are looking to paint your home, possibly the exterior of your home but maybe even the interior, one of the things that will come up is the purchase of paint — and the decision of choosing a particular kind of paint to use over another kind of paint.
There are so many kinds of paint that you will be able to choose for your painting project, but it’s important to realize that there are some things that distinguish high quality paint from other sorts of paint — and when you know more about them, you will put forth the effort to try to only use the higher quality paints in your painting projects.
With that being the case, here are five things to know about high quality paint in Denver Metro, CO.
1. High Quality Paint Spreads More Easily
The first thing that you should know about higher quality paint is that it spreads a lot more easily.
This may not seem like such a big deal but when you are standing and painting and spending hours doing so, you will appreciate the kind of paint that is easier to apply than another.
Just the fact that the paint goes on more smoothly and is less inconvenient for you during the painting process is a good starting point for why you should consider getting it over a cheaper paint.
2. HIgh Quality Paint Has Better Pigment
There are many ingredients to paint and pigment is one of them — it is what makes the paint look the color that it does.
When you have paints that are higher quality, you will know that the pigments inside are also of higher quality, meaning that it is better made.
Of course, the cheaper paints out there also have their own reasons for having particular colors but those tend to be lesser quality pigments that don’t look nearly as good.
3. High Quality Paint Also Has Better Resins
Resins are the compounds in your paint that will cause the paint to stick to surfaces — and you want the paint to stick to the surfaces, after all, so that you don’t have to go back and repaint.
The higher quality paints that you will find out there have better resins, meaning that they are less prone to peeling problems and will stay on the surface that you paint significantly longer.
Of course in the long run when you have something that lasts longer, you end up paying less overall because if you don’t have to keep going back and painting again, you spend less time and thus less money on painting projects.
4. High Quality Paints Are Slower To Fade
One of the big problems that people will have when they are painting a home is that over time, the paint will fade, leaving them with a home that is not quite the same color that they wanted.
The end result is that they have to paint anew after a couple of years, which is both inconvenient and time consuming.
It is therefore better to use higher quality paint, which takes a lot longer to fade and thus lasts longer on the surface.
5. High Quality Paints Have Fewer Fillers
In the world of high quality paint as with other things, a good test of how truly good it is can be determined by how many fillers it has.
As you can imagine, if the company that makes the paint fills it up with cheap fillers, they don’t have to include as much of the ingredients that make it such a good quality paint.
Look for paints that have as few unnecessary fillers as possible to get a higher quality thicker paint that won’t disappoint you after a year or two.
Don’t settle for just any painter when you can get the attention to detail and professionalism from Imhoff Fine Residential Painting in Denver Metro, CO. Call us today to speak with one of our professional color consultants.
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