If you are moving home and trying to encourage a sale, or if you just want to give your property a lick of paint for your own satisfaction and out of respect for the neighbors and the neighbourhood, then painting your building is one of the very best ways to do this. The fact is that our walls take up by far the largest surface area of our property and so this is the best way to make the biggest impact to the appearance of the building.
When you decide to go ahead with this renovation you then have two options - to do the job yourself, or to hire a professional in to do it for you. So what do you do? Well by far the best option is to go with the professional service - and here we will look at why that is.
Time
First of all, few of us have time to paint our entire house and this is something that takes a considerable amount of time. When you hire a painting service, that's their job so they are going to work on it eight hours a day until the job is complete. This then means there's minimal time where the house is left looking blotchy and uneven and worse than it did before you started, and it means the whole ordeal will be over sooner.
Appearance
Of course a professional service is going to do a much more professional job than you will when they paint your home. This isn't a dig at your painting skills, it's just a simple fact seeing as they will be doing this on a daily basis and will have had professional training. Painting a house is harder to do than you might think, and if you try to do it yourself you will inevitably end up with streaks, air bubbles, marks where you leaned against the wall with the ladder (it takes a lot of forward planning) and places where the rain ruined your still-wet paint. If you are painting your house in order to sell then of course this rather defeats the object.
Safety
Another matter that you need to consider is your safety. If you are up on a ladder with a bucket of paint and a strong wind blows then this is very dangerous indeed and you can easily fall and seriously injure yourself. It's only safe to paint your house if you are a professional, if you have the right equipment, and if someone is there to hold the ladder. Do it yourself and you will be putting yourself at serious risk.
Cost
So painting the building yourself will save you money of course, but you might be surprised to learn that you'll save a lot less than you at first thought. You will save money on the labor yes, but you will still lose money on the paint you buy (which a professional service will get at discounted prices) and on the equipment like the huge ladders that will rarely get used again.
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