Big job requiring 2-tier scaffolding for LR and 2 BD's. Walls, ceilings, window trim, new 5 inch baseboards, SW paint. Needed one more gallon for last bedroom trim / baseboards. I (customer) walked in and WHOA, "That is a different color". Paint labeling showed the same recipe. My guys went back to SW...no love. ALWAYS open and compare (test paint a scrap & let dry) when needing "more" BEFORE applying. I'm easygoing, so I accepted it. Most customers would demand it be redone...and rightfully so.

Interested in why are you targeting younger painters? Good and bad has no age.

Brad:

They're going to find out how their profession is perceived when no girl's parents want her to marry a tradesman.

You're going to need an editor (thier^). Message me a copy, please. No charge.

I think painters get a bad rap b/c many think it’s a trade they can claim w/o effort and while they wait for something better. Not true at all but so many people who paint treat the skill with so little pride, that customers and casual observers follow suit. Not every painter, simply making a generalization.

Licensed, insured, and professional paint contractors command some respect. Still not enough to date the lawyer’s daughter. But a heck of a lot more than the spray can huffer, standing on the corner, taping up “$100 rooms” signs, and masquerading as a painter.

Too many people think that painting is just slapping up a $20 gallon with a 3/8” fuzzy roller. Because that’s what they would do, because no one else taught them the right way. Wham bam, no thank you man.

3/8” fuzzy roller. LOL!

I've been lucky with the quality of the work done by the 4 different painters/painting contractors that have done interior painting in the two homes we have owned. One of them, though, I haven't been able to recommend to others because of issues unrelated to the quality of the work: that painter started our project, and then - after a couple days, did not appear when scheduled, consistently promised to be here at a particular time on a particular day and then was hours late or just failed to appear, and did not answer his phone when I called to find out if and when he was coming. It was maddening - when I did speak with him, I told him that I was willing to work with him on the schedule, as it appeared he had something going on at home, but that I couldn't abide scheduling myself around his promises to be here only to have him fail to show up. When he continued to be erratic with the schedule, and to duck my calls, I found someone else to complete the job.

I was at Harbor Freight today picking up some of he $8 moving blankets. Poor Guy in front of me was buying a single $2 roller. Can you even imagine the quality of a $2 Harbor Freight roller?

To the OP - what a negative and grumpy post. I've used two painters in the last 12 years. One was a 2-man team, both around 30 (what do YOU define as "young"?), and they were superb. The other was a bigger shop and a team of painters of varying ages. They also did a great job, with one error, which they corrected as soon as I pointed it out.

I can't help you with your negative request. In any case, I believe in the school of hard knocks. A younger painter who can't get referrals or repeat business, and gets slammed on Yelp and Angie's List, will learn or leave. Certainly more powerful than you writing something they'll perceive as from an old guy that they won't read.

JudyG I agree. My husband has that PhD and he like many people could have made more without a college degree, learning a trade.

To the OP- well, I think most painters already know that painters get a bad rap. . .after all, it was a painter himself who told me ‘most painters are alcoholics’. Now, that was hyperbole of course but theres a certain stereotype for sure.

that being said- I dont actually care how polite someone is if they do good work! One time an *extremely* polite young man, went to a friends church, was trying to grow as a painter, came and did a job for me. Drywall patch and paint. It was BAD. I wish I had a pic! Like huge lump in the wall bad.

Anyway, I’ll take a competent late rude hungover painter anyday over that.

Hi! It so happened that I was able to meet in my life only one team of artists who decorated the walls of the children's room in my house . But again, I approached their choice with great responsibility after reviewing many sources and forums, I found painters and decorators dublin and never regretted that I chose them. Just professionals in their field! To be honest, I always thought that the drawings on the walls give a special comfort to the room and did not lose. The nursery looks so cozy that I want to move there myself.(joke) I'm thinking of painting the walls in the bedroom as well.

I had a crush on a painter years ago. She and my wife never knew.