If you’re reading this that means you’ve chosen us to paint your home. Welcome aboard! We’ve laid out everything you need to know about the entire process below. Please read it carefully as it has everything you need to know from here on out.
We look forward to working with you!
The Process
Accepting the estimate
Once you agree to the estimate on your painting investment, you’ll need to pay a scheduling deposit to secure your place on our schedule. The deposit amount is deducted from the total and can be found in the notes at the bottom of the estimate.
the scheduling deposit
The scheduling deposit can be paid via check, card or Venmo. Checks can be made payable to “Andrus Painting” and sent to the Kuna address at the top of the estimate. Card will be digital and will have a small processing fee. Venmo payments can be made to @andruspainting and for extra security you can confirm with the last four digits of our business line, 9332.
SCHEDULING
Our schedule is based on a first come first serve basis. When a client accepts the estimate and pays the scheduling deposit they are placed on our chronological list. Each project we work on will take an unknown amount of time to complete, which makes it hard to predict where it will fall on the calendar. We will do our best to determine and predict which month your project falls into, please be patient with us as we work hard to get to yours. As we get closer we’ll do our best to update you as to when we think we are able to start. When we give our one week heads up, be prepared for the day we come to pressure wash the house. This will also be the day we collect the half down payment.
paying the half down
The half down payment is due the day we start, which will be the day we pressure wash. A lead may not be there to collect it, which at that point it would just roll into the day we begin prep. A check is preferred and made payable to “Andrus Painting,” or can be made digitally with a card.
Pressure washing
Prior to us arriving to prep and paint the house, we will come out to pressure wash. The following prep from the homeowner is needed to ensure we can adequately clean and work on the house.
Items hanging on the house (decorations, plants, sun shades, etc.) to be removed.
Anything stacked up against the house (bricks, wood piles, furniture, etc.) to be relocated away from the house.
Vehicles to be cleared from the driveway.
All windows to be shut.
arrival
We’ll arrive early in the morning at least one day after pressure washing your house. We will have a trailer containing everything we need for the project from start to finish and we will park it on the street in front of your house until the job is completed. Don’t worry, it’s a good looking trailer so it won’t cause any issues with neighbors! On arrival the crew will walk the house and discuss what is to be done and where to start. We’ll begin our prep shortly after.
the prep
We’ll begin the surface prep process of caulking, sanding, peel bonding, masking, etc (depending on your specific project). This will usually take a full day or two to complete depending on the size of the project.
the painting
When the house is ready we will start painting. We spray out the body of the house, the doors, and then hand paint the trim, fascia, and gutters (depending on your specific project). If you are having the doors painted (front door, side door, man door, garage doors, etc.) we will need access to these doors, meaning they will need to be unlocked because we remove the weather stripping and the hardware, then mask out areas such as the casing/trim on the doors or the concrete underneath the garage doors. During this time we ask you to only use the garage doors to exit and enter your home. The garage door can be opened and shut while it’s masked out or freshly painted and will be perfectly safe. After spraying we get into hand painting, which could be the trim, fascia, corbels, etc. which includes the touch-up.
the touch-up
Touch-up is the final phase. Please remember the painting process is very tedious, nothing is 100% done until we are 100% done. As you walk the job when we leave each day you will notice areas needing attention. On our end that is a known guarantee and is mentally noted each day as a task to be completed the following day or when we deem it fit to address. These things may include:
Small unsprayed areas: We do this on purpose in awkward areas or at the bottoms or tops of downspouts so we can hand paint them later.
Drips of paint on the wall or concrete: This happens and will be addressed during touch-up. If there is a drip on the concrete, it will flake off when dry.
Imperfections or light spots: These will be addressed during touch-up.
Please keep a mental note of any touch-up you see during this time and let us know as we near the clean-up phase if we missed anything. This way we can ensure everything is done and the transition into clean-up is smooth.
the Clean-up
When we complete the painting we will transition into cleaning up the site. Please note we may start the clean up during the touch-up phase to keep everyone busy as we wait for paint to dry in areas where we will need to paint again. During the clean-up we will make sure the masking is removed, the trash is bagged up, any furniture is put back and the house looks like it did before, except now with a beautiful new paint job!
Completion
At this point we will be packing up our tools into our trailer and getting ready to leave so you can admire your new home in peace. I’m sure you will miss us though! We will leave you with cans of labeled paint for your records and future upkeep.
final payment
The final payment is to be paid on the date of completion via check or digitally with a card.
Remember, if anything comes up after the project is completed we encourage you to reach out as we will have no problem returning to address any issue you may have!