Commercial Painting & Carpentry Articles
Articles to help you paint your business or multi-family community.
Tips and advice for commercial & residential painting projects > Residential Painting Articles
Commercial Resources for Property Managers, Facility Managers, Business Owners, Office Managers, and Multi-Family Communities:
Our current wait times to start your commercial project
Anti-Graffiti Paint – dries to a slick surface so graffiti can be erased with plain water.
Assisted Living Communities – as members of the Massachusetts ALA, we know a few things about painting in assisted living communities.
Budgeting painting: developing a paint budget for commercial painting projects.
Churches and Religious environments – how we stage a painting project in religious buildings
Commercial Painting Case Studies – learn from our experience in commercial painting with summaries of the ins and outs of some recent commercial projects.
Condominiums – painting for multi-family communities
Corrugated metal siding painting – tips to painting corrugated metal siding and roofing.
Ebook we wrote about Commercial Painting: New to the industry? This free e-book explains the lingo, secrets, and things that would take years to experience to learn.
Elastomeric paint – when to use this stretchy paint and tips on applying it.
Facility Managers – how we work with Boston’s busiest professionals
Home Owners Associations: Tips on how to develop a budget for painting projects
HOAs: More tips on repainting common areas and exteriors in these 24/7 communities.
Industrial & warehouse painting: our process for painting these busy environments
Insurance: How to ensure all contractors you hire are properly insured and licensed in Massachusetts
Our insurance, licenses, and Women-Owned Business certifications. The page links to our licenses, certifications, and insurance policies.
Lifts & Scaffolding: How we paint faster & more efficiently by renting lifts, saving our clients money
Microbicidal paint to kill germs on high-touch surfaces.
Multi-Family Painting Considerations: How to communicate with residents when a contractor is on site.
Night and Weekend painting – we work “off hours” at no extra charge, so your business stays open.
Office Painting: Using your brand’s colors to paint your office.
Office painting: The process is as important as the painting in a 5-day-a-week office.
Property Managers: How we work with Boston’s best multi-taskers.
Photos of our commercial projects: Take a look at recent interior and exterior commercial painting projects.
Relationship with your commercial painter: Why a long-term relationship is key.
Religious: interior painting for area churches, synagogues, and places of worship
RFPs (Requests for Proposal): How to develop a good RFP, so all contractors are bidding on the exact same scope of work
Rusted surfaces – tips on preparation and painting of rusted substrates.
Schools: Painting for colleges, private & public schools, and early childhood centers
Scuff-resistant paint – great for high-traffic areas, including hockey rinks!
Team page: Get to know who you’ll work with at CertaPro Painters if you hire us.
The ultimate guide to commercial painting – a whole ebook we wrote on commercial painting in New England!
Unusual things we paint for our commercial clients: Speedbumps, bollards, industrial pipes, scoreboards, and more.
Warehouse painting: Learn from our experience how to help these busy spaces get painted.
Women-owned Painting Business: CertaPro Painters is a Woman-Owned business and WBE Certified