You’re moving your mother into an assisted living facility and you’ve been tasked with painting her house to get it on the market to sell. Lucky you. You’re looking at a week or two of work and want...
If this doesn't answer your questions about picking the right paint for exterior painting please feel free to call me at 509-551-1060 for advice. I would also suggest going to a store that...
Selecting Colors for Your Home Sometimes choosing colors can be the hardest part about painting a house. Here is some help. Please keep in mind that there is a big difference between how a color...
If you are buying zero or low VOC paint to reduce the air pollution in your home be sure to either not tint it or tint it to a very light tint. So far tint is a non-organic material which can...
It's Not Your Fault If you or your painter paints a room and you discover it's not at all the color you expected it may not be due to poor color picking, poor coverage, or a bad tinting job at the...
Kirbyworks Painting is Top-Rated for Painting Contractors in Richland, Pasco & Kennewick The award reflects the company’s consistently high level of customer service. Kirbyworks Painting...
Many people go to sell their home and their realtor takes one look at their kitchen and tells them they need to get it remodeled before trying to sell the house. They also tell them they need to get...
If given the chance, I'm going to try to talk you out of it. Not that a painter wouldn't want the business but some things just trump that desire to make another buck. Here's how the conversation...
We Have a Water Problem Here in the Desert in the Tri-Cities Home exteriors in the Tri-Cities sure take a beating. Not only does the sun fade even the best paint and practically burns the paint off...
It's Too Late to be Part of the Class-Action Suit Between 1985 and 1995 800,000 homes were sided with a Louisiana-Pacific (LP) product called Inner Seal that sparked one of the largest class-action...
A high-quality coating starts with ingredients that allow paint to apply more easily, look better and last longer. The following four key ingredients affect the quality of paint: Pigment Two types...
I just got through painting my second red house. For my first red house, the owner already knew he wanted it red. It was an assisted living facility in Kennewick. This time however the owner just...
San Francisco is certainly a unique place with lots of character. The folks there don't seem to mind standing out in a crowd. That and maybe they just don't worry too much about what the neighbors...
My friend John Shearer of Shearer Painting in Seattle has put together a boat load of useful information regarding house painting called The Internet Guide to House Painting. Between our two blogs...
Painting Instead of Replacing Cabinets - A Great Alternative Quite often you can give your kitchen a bright, new look for a fraction of the cost of replacing your kitchen cabinets. If your current...
There are many variables to consider for picking the right paint for interior painting in Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick. I would have to write a too-long post to get to all of them so I'll just...
Why Would Anyone Want to Relocate to the Tri-Cities, WA? It's the Economy - Our economy has been getting national attention: the Kennewick-Richland area ranked #66 out of 384 Statistical Metro Areas...
Too hot: 100 degrees is the recommended maximum, including the surface temperature of your siding. Does that mean we can't paint on days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees? We still can...
If you are having satellite or cable TV installed at your house you are probably concerned about the aesthetics of having all those black or grey wires running around the outside of your house....