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How to Break Into the Commercial Sector

Gulf Coast Premier Painting’s owners share 5 things they wish they’d known when they started taking on commercial jobs

Cody Edwards and Matt Fruge, co-owners of Gulf Coast Premier Painting (GCPP) in Houston, Texas, remember the nerves they felt the first time they took on a commercial job. As contractors who had primarily worked in the residential space before, handling a large commercial project was intimidating.

“I remember it well,” Edwards says. “It wasn’t in Houston, so we were on the road. It was going to be an eight-week job: 22,000 square feet of texture on top of painting 142,000 square feet of surface. I don’t want to speak for Matt, but I was scared.” Continue reading How to Break Into the Commercial Sector

Large Commercial Projects Key to Growth of Carolina’s A&K Painting

Paint is definitely in the blood of the Robbins family. For four generations now, they have been doing award-winning professional painting work from their home base in the Charlotte metropolitan area of North and South Carolina. The current family business is A&K Painting, founded by Andy Robbins in 1994. Continue reading Large Commercial Projects Key to Growth of Carolina’s A&K Painting

The Right Colors for Every Job: The 2023 Commercial Colormix® Forecast

Use the six palettes of the 2023 Sherwin-Williams Commercial Colormix® Forecast to help your customers in the color selection process. These palettes have been selected by the company’s color experts using the latest paint color trends for hospitality, healthcare, education and commercial jobs, plus new residential and multi-family properties.
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Customer Pain Points: How One Commercial Painting Company Resolves Them

More than three decades ago, The Kaloutas Company was busy building a distinguished name for itself with a record of successful and efficient painting projects for commercial and industrial customers throughout New England.
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Commercial Color Collections: Great Ways to Help Your Customers Choose the Best Colors for their Projects

The Sherwin-Williams Commercial Colormix Collections are a great resource that can help you assist your customers with color selection on a wide array of projects, from hospitality and healthcare to education, new residential and multi-family properties.
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Create Balance in Built Environments with 2021 Colormix® Forecast Color Collections

Looking for resources to help your customers in the color selection process? Sherwin-Williams has introduced new 2021 Colormix® Forecast color collections that will enhance public and personal spaces through the pulse of color. Continue reading Create Balance in Built Environments with 2021 Colormix® Forecast Color Collections

Egan Painting Achieves Dramatic Results at 14,000 Square Foot Distillery

“We love challenges,” says Mitch Egan, owner of Egan Painting in South Pasadena, Florida. That’s one of the reasons why painting the American Freedom Distillery in St. Petersburg was such a fulfilling project for this 40-year veteran of the construction trades. PPC editor Mike Starling sat down with Mitch to learn more about this high-profile job. Continue reading Egan Painting Achieves Dramatic Results at 14,000 Square Foot Distillery

A Win-Win: Improve Profitability and Maximize Customer Satisfaction with a Harmony® Upsell

Cooler weather, football games, apple picking — and an upsell to Harmony® Interior Acrylic Latex Paint? Indeed, the fall season is ripe for many opportunities, and it’s uniquely suited to help you improve project profitability and maximize customer satisfaction with the help of Sherwin-Williams’ odor-eliminating technology.* Continue reading A Win-Win: Improve Profitability and Maximize Customer Satisfaction with a Harmony® Upsell

Island Hopping: Painting Hawaii’s Largest Airport Car Rental Facility

Over the past 20 years, Consolidated Painting, LLC has earned a spotless reputation for tackling some of the toughest commercial painting challenges in Hawaii. There’s no better example than their recent completion of a $340 million Kahului Airport Consolidated Rent-A-Car (CONRAC) facility.
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Power Play to Sweet Retreat: The 2019 Commercial Color Collection

Influenced by everything from the latest fashion trends to the surrounding environment, color trends are always changing. Inspired by these trends and the Colormix® Color Forecast, Sherwin-Williams has created new market segment-specific palettes to help pro painters transform their customers’ spaces with the power of color. Continue reading Power Play to Sweet Retreat: The 2019 Commercial Color Collection

Martha’s Vineyard Museum: New Life for an Island Landmark

Rick Convery Painting, Inc. has been making homes and commercial buildings on Martha’s Vineyard Island look fantastic for the past 35 years. A recent example is their work on one of the island’s highest profile restoration jobs: Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Continue reading Martha’s Vineyard Museum: New Life for an Island Landmark

New Products: Get Protection Plus Color With New Loxon® Stain

Now you can offer both great color and long-lasting protection with new Loxon® Semi-Transparent Vertical Concrete Stain. This semi-transparent addition to the Loxon® stain family allows you to enhance the natural variation in concrete – adding beautiful color as well as all-weather protection to your concrete coating jobs.
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All Systems Go! New Trim Paint Is a Winner for New Jersey Contractors

Triad Coatings and Sandblasting of Morristown, New Jersey is always looking for new products that can increase their efficiency and help them do better work for their customers. They recently had a chance to work with Emerald® Urethane Trim Enamel for the first time.
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Concrete & Color: Paint Breathes New Life into Historic River Town

Paint color transformed a historic property and helped Designing Jewelers gain recognition as one of “America’s Coolest Stores” from InStore magazine. Two Sherwin-Williams masonry coatings provide the one-two punch for long-lasting protection on the repaint of the 136-year-old building. Continue reading Concrete & Color: Paint Breathes New Life into Historic River Town

Cool Pool: A Colorful Pro Industrial™ Paint Job in Tennessee

As one of Eastern Tennessee and Southwest Virginia’s premier painting contractors, Woods Paint Company has built its reputation on superior craftsmanship, attention to detail, clear communication, honesty and integrity. Continue reading Cool Pool: A Colorful Pro Industrial™ Paint Job in Tennessee