Essential Ways To Care for Your New Paint

INTERIOR

Cleaning your newly painted surface: If you spill or splatter onto your new paint job, use water on a cloth or rag to wipe off the surface. It that is unsuccessful, then use a cleaner with ammonia (Formula 409) and spray the cleaner onto the sponge or rag and wipe. Ammonia based cleaners are also good to clean dirty surfaces.

Touch-up Tricks: If you need to touch-up any of the areas we’ve painted we recommend you use the touch-up paint provided and follow a “less is more” philosophy, i.e. touch-up the smallest area possible. If you do not get the “blending” desired, you may need to apply the paint to a stopping point, i.e. paint 1 wall or a whole length of baseboard, etc.

Getting more paint: Take the container we’ve left with you to the paint store to identify what you need (this helps so even the most recent hire at the store can get the order correct). Our office usually has records of what we’ve used. If you contact our office we’ll be happy to affirm the colors we’ve used and if you ask, will tell you how you can get a discount on future paint you need.

EXTERIOR

Cleaning: Periodically, you may want to wash the dirt or dust off of you home to help maintain the luster of the new paint job.

Peeling paint: Areas that receive repeated exposure to water or snow (window sills / foundations) may need to have maintenance done every few years. In that case, scrape the old paint off, spot prime with a top-line primer and touch-up with the paint provided (see “Touch-ups Tricks” below).

Touch-ups Tricks: If you need to touch-up any of the areas we’ve painted we recommend you use the touch-up paint provided and follow a “less is more” philosophy, i.e. touch-up the smallest area possible. If you do not get the “blending” desired, you may need to apply the paint to a stopping point, i.e. a whole window sill or length of siding etc. Paint will fade over time and doing a whole length of siding or window sill will help minimize any differences between the new paint and existing.

Getting more paint: Take the container we’ve left with you to the paint store to identify what you need (this helps so even the most recent hire at the store can get the order correct). Our office usually has records of what we’ve used. If you contact our office we’ll be happy to affirm the colors we’ve used and if you ask, will tell you how you can get a discount on future touch-up paint.