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HOW TO FIND A GOOD HOUSE PAINTER IN THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA AREA

So you have decided it is time to bring in a professional

to paint your home. Whether you are doing the inside or

outside there are many things to consider when making

this important decision.

Steps to finding a good painter:

1.) Check to make sure that they have a contractors license.

2.) Get two or more references.

3.) Ask how long they have been in business.

4.) Get at least one other bid for the job to make sure they are not ripping you off.

5.) Find a painter that will give you pricing for small jobs over the phone.

6.) Get flat rate estimates so you know the total you will pay beforehand.

The best place to start asking about painters is your family and friends. Other good sources of referrals include contractors, real estate agents and your local paint supply store. Your city may even be able to provide a list of recommended painters who are familiar with the codes in your area. When asking for referrals, be sure to check the type of job the painter was called in to accomplish. Also, determine if the painter specializes in residential or commercial work.

Some good questions to ask:

Were you happy with the quality provided by the painting contractor?

Everybody has their own ideas of quality, so you should take a look at their house and judge for yourself. Pay attention to cut in areas around doors, windows and trim. Are the lines straight and was caulking applied. Interior or exterior doesn’t matter; proper surface preparation always leads to better, more pleasing results.

Did the painting contractor protect non-painted surfaces or areas?

For exteriors this includes concrete, roofing and plantings. For interiors moving and protecting furniture is a major concern but don’t forget about the flooring. If a painter was sloppy with one customer chances are they will be sloppy with all of them. If you are left to clean up after your painter this will cost you more time and money and frustration.

Were they courteous and polite?

This is a very important consideration. The entire experience, from beginning to end, needs to be as stress free as possible. Plus if the house painter enjoys their job, the quality and attention to details will be better. The customers attitude can and will affect the entire paint job. Hopefully this

will be the first question you ask. If the answer to this question is “no” then do not go any further, you don’t want to work with that person.

Is the warranty included?

If a warranty was included find out if it has a reasonable amount of time before expiring, 3 years is enough, and if it has any value. Simply stating a warranty isn’t enough. Get it in writing and understand its limitations! A good painter is happy to stand behind his warranty. Good painters use quality materials and know their level of expertise. If a painter will not offer a warranty this is a problem in my mind.

How to Hire a Painter

Think about the last time you purchased a car. Chances are you didn’t go to the yellow pages, choose a dealership at random, and buy your car from the first lot you visited. Many times, though, this scenario describes the way homeowners find a painter — they look in the phone book and call the painter with the largest ad or the first one listed. But much like purchasing a car, finding a qualified painter requires research and comparison shopping.

Ask Questions

HOW DO THEY PLAN TO PREPARE THE SURFACE FOR PAINTING?

Proper prep work is the key to a long lasting paint job. Make sure your contractor has a clear plan for washing, scraping, and sanding the surface.

WILL THEY PRIME BEFORE CAULKING AND PAINTING?

All bare surfaces require a primer; previously painted surfaces usually do not require primer.

WHAT AREAS ARE THEY PLANNING TO CAULK?

The most common cause of paint failure is due to moisture from water going behind the paint. For that reason caulking all joints, seams, gaps, and cracks in the surface is a must to ensure a tight seal.

WHAT KIND OF PAINT DO THEY PLAN TO USE? WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS?

Good quality paint will be recommended by good painters, you probably don’t need the most expensive product, but don’t cheap out on this either. Make sure the painter can explain the benefits of the paint they are recommending and ask for documentation of any manufacturer’s

warranty info and product data.

Ask For a Quote

Invite painters to look at the job and ask for a quote in writing. In the quote also ask then to specify the time it will take to complete the job. It sucks to try and live in a house that is covered with drape cloths. Make sure the contractors are quoting on the same specifications – areas to be

painted, number of coats and so forth.

Execute a Contract

Execute a contract specifying the work to be done, total cost, payment schedule, start date and estimated completion date. Make sure the contract includes the paint brands and colors to be used in each location, as well as the number of coats. Make sure the contract specifies that the painter is responsible for cleanup and the removal of paint from all surfaces (windows, floors).

Things to Look For in a Qualified Painter

There are a number of qualifications that can set a professional painter apart.

- Insurance — Be sure that the prospective painter you are considering is fully insured, having both workers compensation and liability insurance. Your selected painter should be able to provide you with a copy of his or her insurance policy.

-Better Business Bureau — Contact your local Better Business Bureau to ascertain if any complaints have been filed against your potential candidate.

- Use Angies List www.AngiesList.com to see what others have to say about this person. If a painter has good reviews on Angies List then it is a good bet they will do good work for you too.

Safety Commitment

Accidents can happen with almost any home improvement project. So ask your prospective candidate what steps he or she will take to prevent injuries and property damage. Again if a painter is good at his work he or she will be able to answer this question with ease.

Clean Up

Ask the painter how he or she intends to leave the work area once the job is completed. You don’t want to be cleaning up after a painter for hours after they’ve left your home. Also, ask about disruption during the project.

TIPS

* Small business painters will be much more affordable because their overhead is lower.

* If it’s a big job, ask a number of painters and discard the cheapest and most expensive options. The cheapest will have underestimated and will sting you for it later and the most expensive doesn’t really want your business, probably because they have work up to their eyeballs already.

If you have not found a Painter in the Chino or Chino Hills area that fit all these qualifications We Highly Recommend All Pro Painting, Inc.

Call 1-800-BRUSH-ON to get a free consultation

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SEO Link Robot is a link building and SEO software tool that will help you build backlinks to increase website and ultimately to help you become more successful online. The software competes in the crowded market of other automated and semi-automated software packages such as SEnuke, EVO2, Bookmarking Demon, Web 2 Mayhem, Synnd and Social Bot. These are are relatively sophisticated products with many moving parts, but SEO link Robot has developed a solid following and is one of the more affordable packages on the market today.

SEO Link Robot was developed by Stephen Hawkins who has 15 years of experience in the Web and Windows based development world. He graduated with honors from the University of Newcastle in the UK with a BS degree in software engineering and today is an SEO expert and product developer working with Xpert Tech in the UK.

seo Link Robot performs many link building tasks all under one roof and Hawkins is continuously adding more features to the mix. The software performs content posting as well as content promotion tasks and  is very broad based.

Here is what you’ll get:

Content Posting:

Article Spinner. Article Poster Web 2.0 Poster. Web 2.0 Linker. Video Poster (coming soon) Network Blog (coming soon)

Content Promotion:

Social Media Bookmarking. RSS Submitter. Meta Indexer to help get your site indexed faster. Site Pinger. Press Release Submitter.

The word on the street regarding SEO Link Robot is very good and at $47 a month (through my link) it beats the competition in price. SEnuke offers its services for $127 a month. I am not a big fan of article spinners and have seen a lot of poorly spun articles out there. The “spin on submit” concept scares me to death as you don’t have a chance to review the article once you’ve created your master. spun article. It takes skill and patience to develop a quality master article and based on what I’ve seen on the internet, people aren’t willing to spend the time to create quality spin syntax.

All of these link building products also miss the boat when it comes to bookmarking and social media advertising. All of them submit bookmarks to social media sites that you’ve created. There is no harm in bookmarking content from your website or blog to your social media sites on Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Delicious. I do it all the time, but the real power in social network marketing is getting people to respond to your content with “likes” “digs” and “re-tweets” for instance. Only the Synnd Content Syndication Network posts, promotes generates buzz for your content. Google is using Social Buzz, also called social signals, more and more in their page ranking algorithms. Notice that they have introduced their own “+1″ button to help people vote and give content their stamp of approval. This concept is big and is the latest trend in social network marketing. Only the Synnd system is moving in that direction right now.Everything that I have uncovered about SEO Link Robot suggests that its members are satisfied with the service and in the link building results that they are getting.

The easiest way to prepare a dog to ignore a floating decoy is to condition the dog before the hunt to leave decoys alone. For starters, take the dog out after you have set out a small spread of decoys – let’s say five to seven – on the lawn and walk the dog through them. Let the dog know you don’t want him to pick up these decoys. They are taboo.

 

After we make the dog comfortable around the decoys to the point that he’s not picking them up, we can start throwing the training dummy into the decoys and have him retrieve the dummy out of the decoys until he’s very comfortable with the concept. You must also be careful that you don’t make the dog afraid of the decoys (for example, by applying collar stimulation when you shouldn’t). You want to make sure the dog is comfortable moving around amid the decoys and not trying to retrieve them for you.

 

If you know you’re hunting out of a particular boat, be sure to load the dog in and out of the boat a few times so he’s comfortable with it. If you can work it out, take the boat to a lake or pond and let the dog make some short retrieves so he knows where he’s supposed to sit and his entry and exit points. After you have done some of that initial work, it’s time to take the dog out to a pond. Spread out six or seven floating decoys and make sure the dog will retrieve through the decoys.

 

Always make sure when you put your decoys out that you keep the anchor strings as short as possible or the dog will get tangled in your decoy spread and start dragging them around. A young dog can become afraid of a floating decoy if he has become tangled in the anchor string and the decoys bumps him a few times. We don’t want that.

 

Many dogs don’t hear a duck or goose call until the first time they hunt. When they do, they can’t identify the noise and it causes excitement and confusion. You need to condition your dogs to the call. Use the call while you’re training them.

 

Many dogs have never been shot over prior to their first hunt. You have to train the dog to react positively to a shotgun going off over his head. In training, start out shooting away from the dog and slowly adjust until you are shooting right over the dog. You want the dog to remain perfectly still as the gun is going off.

 

What I do when training is blow the call for a while, shoot the gun and throw the dummy bird to retrieve. Then the dog will get used to the scenario. He’ll become more efficient when he’s not surprised and will perform properly that first time in the duck blind or the boat.

 

If we’re going to change something – let’s say we’ve been hunting out of a blind and now we’re going to use a boat – then we should expose the dog to the boat and make him comfortable in it before we hunt.

 

I never get too critical of my dogs in a new situation until they know what is expected of them. Once they understand the rules, then often just a low level of stimulation from the collar is all that’s necessary to keep them on track.

 

Bad habits are reinforced every time we let a dog do something more than once. If you let your dog leave the boat or leave the blind before you have commanded it, then you are allowing a situation to develop that will be harder to break later. That’s why you want to have all the kinks worked out before you actually enter a hunting situation.

 

Although your dog may be well trained, you may discover that all the excitement of the hunting action can cause your dog to have some temporary memory loss. Even if that happens and the dog gets a bit out of line, he will understand why he’s being corrected and what needs to be done so he won’t have to feel the stimulation of the training collar. A few simple reminders with some low-level stimulation will be all it takes to get the dog on the right path and get him thinking properly again.

 

One big problem we all see in blinds is that the dog likes to break for the bird before we give the command. The best way to train a dog from breaking too quickly when a bird drops is with a breaking box. I have also used an eye bolt in the boat or blind to put the dog on a check cord while hunting.

 

We put the dog in the box and attach him to a check cord attached to the box. Where the cord is attached to the dog we use a slipknot, and when we are ready to release the dog we just reach over and pull the knot loose on the cord and give him the command. Without the box the dog is spinning around and moving. This box is just big enough for the dog to get into and he can’t buck around in it.

 

Many people think their dog is ready for hunting because he’s doing a good job of retrieving. But unless your dog is brilliant – some are, but not all – you need to train with hunting situations. It will keep your hunt from turning into a training session, and you will be proud of the way your dog performs.

 

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Estimating house painting jobs is something that you develop over time. I can go into any house and go from room to room and tell you by eye just how much paint you will need to do the ceilings, walls and woodwork. I can also tell you just about how long it will take to paint each room basically.

I can even tell you just about how long it will take to paint each room in general. But estimating many times goes a lot deeper than just eyeballing a few simple rooms. So here are 6 points to help you when figuring your bids or estimates.

1.) Know Your Target Market

When getting prepared to do a painting estimate you first need to know your target market or markets. Are you going to be painting in the mid-class neighborhoods or are you aiming for the high-end expensive neighborhoods? Or are you going after commercial or industrial accounts?

Now you can you gauge how high you are going to set your bid rates. You can have have high-end rates for larger homes, or for commercial or industrial painting, and mid prices for the rest.

Personally, when it comes to painting for residential customers, I keep my rates the same. I do not care if it’s high-end or middle class. If they cannot afford my painting services, I am out of there. Once you have painted at a higher price, it’s hard to go lower unless of course, you are hard up.