After going over the main benefits of a quote, we should mention that there is one thing to keep in mind. If you are moving and planning on hiring a Burlington painting company to come in and paint ahead of time, you’re probably in a situation where you don’t take ownership of the home until it’s done being built. There are ways to get around this though, but it will require a painting estimate and not a quote.

An estimate is simply an accurate guess. Due to the nature of the home situation, weather it’s being built or you just don’t have access to the future living space. A Burlington painter can only give you an “estimate”, since they have only a limited amount of information to work with. What could help them in the estimating process is blueprints of the home are blueprints. The information that house blueprints provide is mainly square footage and dimensions of the rooms. All paint cans provide specifications on the back so this helps when trying to figure out how much paint will be needed. The amount of coverage per painting gallon can be mathematically calculated to see how many square feet of the home will be covered by a certain amount of paint. Burlington painting companies should be able to figure this out and give you an almost exact amount on paint cost, the only variable being dark colours since they sometimes take 3 coats.

You should know that blueprints can only provide Burlington painting companies with so much information. The little imperfections of a new house build can only be noticed once inspected first hand. No matter how good the home builders are, there will always be small issues when it comes to visual perfection. Burlington painters can easily handle these issues once in the home and working, it only takes a good eye and some knowledge on how to repair the imperfections.

Since a new home needs time to “settle”, it’s impossible to put a guarantee on all new home Burlington painting projects. This is the process of the walls moving and creating nail pops in random areas of the home. This is a natural and inevitable process that is not a big issue. These bumps can be hit back into the wall, filled with putty, smoothed then repainted to match the rest of the paint job.

In conclusion, a painting quote is much more accurate then an estimate, which is straight forward in the name, but does not mean estimates are a bad way of finding a painting company. Either process is good habit to learn more about the painter or painters on a personal level so you can properly select the most trusted and reliable Burlington painting company possible.

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