Painting Doors.

It was one of those hot summer days. 98 degrees or higher. We had told them we were going to start that week, but that week was also supposed to go to another, bigger exterior job that was postponed 2 months ago because of the weather. So now the weather is finally good to get the other big exterior job done that was supposed to have gotten done 2 months ago but kept getting delayed due to weather, but the calendar says we have to go paint those doors!

What should we do? We did both. We went to the big job, set it up and left a couple painters there, while another 2 of us went to do these doors. We try to keep up with our schedule, we also try to keep up with the order of our schedule, so we try to do one job at a time. But many times, the weather can mess up our whole schedule, so we are forced to split up and do 2 jobs at once. It’s rare though.

There are also other things that may happen that can cause delays. For example, many places where we go paint, they end up liking our work and add more stuff to the job that wasn’t previously scheduled. If it’s a half day to 1 extra day then it’s not too bad. Any more than that then I have to tell the client that their project will go into que.

We also had delays due to Sherwin Williams being out of the materials we need. Not anymore because we have gotten used to ordering ahead of time during the pandemic and paint shortage not too long ago.

We actually have the name of this color, It’s “Real Red”. We remember thinking “for this real red we are going to need a deep base or else this real red will be real pink real soon”. So we didn’t need to look at any notes to remember this color.

These were originally stained doors, so we gave it the works. Degreased, cleaned, primed twice, painted twice. Luckily the hot summer day helped us put multiple coats in one day, plus we used a quick drying primer. Sherwin Williams’ Extreme Blocking Oil Based Primer.