Monthly Archives: April 2016

Painting for clients with young children around

Posted on April 23, 2016

You can never predict what you may encounter when you enter a customer's home. Not all clients will hire a professional painter for an empty house – some may just want to change up the interior design of a room or two.

You'll mostly likely encounter children or pets as a professional painter, so here are some tips on best practices.

Keeping young children away may also mean they won't mess with wet paint.Keeping young children away may also mean they won't mess with wet paint.

Young children or pets

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How to ensure your painting business is paid on time

Posted on April 22, 2016

For painting professionals who are overseeing two, three or many more different projects at the same time, project management become a key skill to master. As well as ensuring that your team has the right Resene paint, as well as equipment and information, it is vital to keep track of payment for work completed.

If clients and customers are slow to settle invoices and quotes, this can start a chain reaction where you can't expand your own enterprise nor explore new innovative techniques or designs. Fortunately, according to the most recent statistics from Dun & Bradstreet, invoice payment times are continuing to fall in New Zealand.

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How to use plants to help your interior look green and stay clean

Posted on April 1, 2016

In most interior settings, it's important to get an inflow of fresh air. Whether it is a restaurant, your home or an office, fresh air is needed for optimum brain functioning and upkeep of general wellbeing. It's the oxygen in the air that we require to live, and an insufficient percentage in the air we breathe will lead to a mental decline in any sort of work we do.

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