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How to Obtain a Proper Commercial Painting Bid in Sacramento

Many times prospective clients call our office inquiring about a bid for a commercial property, HOA or a local business. While some have gone through it before, many have very little experience on hiring a Sacramento area painting company and getting a bid. I know most customers are going to get at least three bids and I recommend they do as well.

To get comparable bids, make sure the bid scopes are “apples to apples” which is actually very hard to do in this market. Why? Because many times a commercial paint estimator looks at the scope of work differently than another estimator.

Kevin's Recommendations When Getting a Paint Bid

For painting of any commercial building, an HOA, apartment complex or shopping center I recommend the following:

Contact a local paint supply company who has a sales representative that can walk your project with you in advance, prior to getting contractor estimates. Sherwin-Williams, Kelly-Moore, Dunn Edwards, and Benjamin-Moore, just to name a few, have sales people who can write a specification recommending how a building should be prepped and painted. What products should be used? What grade of products they would recommend? What type of patching material and caulking should be used? The sales peoples will even help in suggesting qualified painting contractors to bid your project.

Walk the job with all the recommended contractors at the same time to review the specifications written by the manufacture and to answer questions contractors may have about the project. Manufacture sales representatives will check in and see the project is getting done per specifications and to follow up on the quality of the job with the contractor and client. Paint manufacturers will also usually provide free a color previews showing what a building will look like with a new color. These services are free to property owners and help provide a competitive bid, apples for apples. These services also ensure a better job for the client. If you are serious about protecting your commercial investment and want a job quality, I recommend utilizing the free services Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin-Moore, Kelly-Moore and Dunn Edwards can provide for you.

Your job as a business owner is to run your business, let the paint manufactures sales people do the work for you; it’s their job to provide these services to our industry!

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Chris and Gabriel were amazing. Corey was patient and helpful in answering questions and while I decided on colors. The office was easy to contact and had good follow-through. Thank you so much to Brooks for a job I could not possibly be happier with. Feel free to use me as a reference!

Laura P

Bud was always available and extremely knowledgeable. He was always willing to go that extra step and also explain things thoroughly.

Michelle B.

Consummate professionals! We hired Brooks to repaint the exterior of our house, and they did a fantastic job. The paint looks wonderful, everyone was also on time, friendly, and respectful of our property. Exceptional communication through the entire process. I was worried about damage to the landscaping near the house (bad previous experience with another outfit), but they were all very understanding and the crew was super careful. Did what they said they would do with no weirdness, no smoking, no radio, and they cleaned up after themselves nicely. This picky customer is very happy!

Lisa Goodin
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My house is so beautiful now…great work. Courteous, prompt, awesome work.

Lisa H.

Competent, very thorough, listened to my wishes, very accommodating. Hard workers, friendly, happy, willing to please.

Kay M

They treat their employees in a fair manner resulting in happy workers. Company is well run. I really like the crew that was here, they were very comfortable to have around.

Pat H.

My experience with Brooks Painting has been outstanding, and, if it were an option on Google, I would assign 100 stars to their work. Mark and his crew were exceptional in painting both the inside and outside of my Central Davis home. They were considerate, careful, and respectful of my furnishings and yard. Kristen and her office staff were also responsive to my queries and were timely in scheduling the work. Thank you Brooks Painting for assisting in transforming my house into a beautiful home!

Hollis Skaife
Google

We chose Brooks Painting based on their excellent reputation. It was an excellent choice! We had them do a complete exterior and almost complete interior painting of our two story house. They were done separately, while we were out of town. We are very pleased with the quality of the work. They even fixed up a few mistakes made by a crew that painted a portion of our interior ceilings a month prior (removal of asbestos popcorn ceiling), at no extra charge. Cleanup was great, also. They repaired some dry rot that was uncovered (extra charge, but worth it), and they even moved furniture back into place as well as put back the curtain rods that I had taken down, which wasn't expected. I highly recommend them, and will use them again for any future paint jobs.

Charlie Russell
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They are on time! They show up! It was a big job and they were good and fast. Very nice guys.

Tracy W.

You are an excellent company and I couldn't be any happier with your work. This is your second job for me and both were excellent.

Donald S., Realtor

It was fun working with Chris and his crew. I’ve never had a contracted job go so smoothly from start to finish. The office was responsive to my needs, Corey was patient and helpful while I made color choices, and Chris made sure I was happy with the crew’s work every step of the way. Gabriel does amazing work as well. Very much a perfectionist like Chris. I don’t have a bad thing to say. The job is absolutely stunning and I’ve had so many neighbors tell me it’s beautiful. I’m happy to put one of your signs in my front yard if you’d like so people know as they drive by who did the work. Thank you Brooks Painting. I will be recommending you to anybody who asks.

D. White
Google

Another great job by Brooks Paining. they did a great job on our trim painting and siding varnish. They were very timely and considerate of our home and property. This is our 3rd time in 19 years utilizing Brooks Painting. We haven't been let done. 👍👍

T Thompson

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