Schmidt Painting

Thanks so much for taking the time to put up a review. Should you need anything else don't hesitate to call.

Pleasure working with you and your husband. Have fun in Key West this year and thanks for leaving a review.

This client had hired what he thought was a quality painting company who promptly subbed out his job to another company. The company that did the paint job broke all 3 rules of painting.

1. They bleached the house and power washed but didn't power wash hard enough to remove the soft pulp of the shingles. This means the new stain would attach to the soft pulp of the shingles and as the soft pulp started to shed off the shingles it would make the shingles look like spaghetti noodles hanging down.
2. They did not wait for 3 days of dry weather to pass before staining the shingles. We do this plus we check the shingles with a moisture meter to be sure the shingles have less than 17% moisture content. If the moisture content is more than 17% the stain will bubble and begin to peel off in the first 6 months.
3. They put water based stain over bleaching oil stain. This is a big no no. Water based stain will not stick to oil. You have to use a hybrid stain.

I been doing this 15 years and never seen a worst paint job. 6 months after the client had the house painted it was bubbling everywhere. He was able to get the company to come back 3 times and they would sand the bubbles and restain the spots but it was clearly obvious they were unwilling to do what it would take to fix the job correctly. A year after the paint job I came out to look at the job. I told the home owner that most likely the house would need to be stripped down close to 100%. I ask the home owner at that point with the shingles completely stripped and looking new would you want to leave the shingles stripped to cut down on future painting cost. He agreed and we stripped 100% of the stain off the shingles and most of the stain off the trim and then we repainted the trim. You can see the beautiful results that we achieved on a house that the home owner thought would need to be reshingled. I am Benjamin Moore Master Stained Certified and I keep up on the latest innovations in the painting field this allows me to quickly diagnose problems and not make mistakes that other companies do. Many clients that I've done estimates for in the past went with companies that were 5% less money and then 1 year later I get the call the other company painted and it looked great but now there's bubbles and peeling everywhere and can we fix it. The answer is yes we can but the company they hired made the job much harder to fix than when we first estimated the job which means the 2nd estimate from us is even higher. I feel bad for these clients they got screwed by the other company and now they in a worst spot than when they started. These same clients become clients for life because after you lose that much money by trying to save a little money you quickly realize that quality equals value and comparing estimates from a painting company is not like comparing apples to apples and many times it's like comparing apples to onions. There's nothing wrong with onions but it's not what your hoping for when your hoping to bite into an apple.

Always a pleasure working with you. I believe this is our 3 time do so. Wonderful to see another life long client happy with the service we provide. Thanks for writing the review.