Outdoor painting services seem to be everywhere in this town. I would not hire half of them but yet they still stay in business because everyone is always looking for the cheapest bid. I wish that this town would realize that the cheapest bid usually means the crappiest job. Not always, but if the outdoor painting services company that you just hired, does not have any contractors insurance or workman’s compensation insurance then you are probably hiring what the industry would call a hack.

A hack would be someone who takes work from the hard working professional people out there that have made this their career and then these people come in and underbid everyone just to get the job. They are probably just making enough from every job to cover the cost of the paint and the materials but they somehow stay in business just long enough to make it very difficult for the real companies.

I remember a painting company when I was little that came to our house and did an estimate. The estimate was half of what the other painting company’s had quoted my dad but he did not want to hire them because he knew that they were not a professional company and he wanted professional work to be done on our house.