Carter Painting Company

We here at Carter Painting Company are local Austin painters that stake our reputation on creating for you the highest quality, most satisfying and headache-free home-improvement solutions that your money can buy; here in Central Texas or anywhere for that matter! If you have never had the pleasure of experiencing The Carter Difference first hand, rest assured that you are missing out on the most comprehensive, most dynamic, and most appreciated Customer Service experience that you could ever imagine possible; in ours or any industry!

What if our professionals treated you like family from the start?

What if you treat us like family after your project is complete?

What if at the end of your project, you were to feel an overwhelming urge to call your friends and tell them how much you enjoyed working with us?

We create a personalized experience for each of our customers based upon your own unique interests and needs, and we know what it takes to be a hit with the rest of your family as well! Call us today to find out what has been missing in contracting until now!

It’s not hard to see the benefits of giving back to our friends and neighbors in the community we serve, because our friends and neighbors are our best and most loyal customers! We see your decision to hire a local contracting company for your home improvement projects as making an investment in your future. When you support local businesses you strengthen the local economy and you help make it possible for Americans like you and I to continue living a free and prosperous life in this country now and in the future! Because you proudly support your local businesses we proudly support you in return by investing our resources into providing you peace of mind in knowing that regardless of how complicated the problem is, Carter Painting Company is your partner and we are always just a phone call away, ready and waiting to step up to the plate for you so that you and your family may enjoy a higher quality of life!

We here at Carter Painting Company know what our customers want and need, and it’s not false promises that can’t be made good on or that are based on hot air.

We know that our customers choose us because we go out of our way to provide them the best value of any painting contractor in Central Texas!

We do not promise our customers the world only to fail to make good on these claims, we simply deliver real-world results that make our contracting solution the best in the business!

When we at Carter Painting Company sign a contract with you, our warranty is there on paper and it is legally-binding. Our warranty is a full 24 months, which is industry standard. We go over it for your protection at the time the contract is signed, and we never forget it as our ongoing commitment to supporting you our customer and the product we provide to you, even in your time of need!

Have you ever heard of someone hiring contractors that were obviously using illegal aliens? It’s an all-too common occurence when it comes to Austin painters, and can jeopardize the safety of you and your loved ones.

1. Does your contractor use illegal or non-english speaking labor?

We at Carter Painting Company only hire English-speaking Americans that are able to provide our valued customers the world-class customer service that we believe they deserve. When you hire us for a painting project, you will be given the full name and contact information of every employee that steps onto your property to work on your home. This way you know who is working around your family and your valuable property, and you don’t experience the problem of a language barrier when trying to communicate with our employees.

Some painting contractors expect you to move you own furniture out of the way and we are of the opinion that these Austin painters are not full-service, or dedicated to a sense of world-class customer service at all. Since when has the customer been wrong?

1. Ask your contractor if he will be moving the furniture or if you are required to do it yourself.

We will cheerfully move your furniture out of the way to keep it safe or even move it to the next town over as part of your kid’s moving away to college. We’re here to take care of you and your family’s assets as if they were our own. We at Carter Painting Company are dedicated to making our customers overall experience with us an overwhelmingly positive one. Other Austin painters simply care more about their own comfort than that of their customers, and it shows.

We hope you are gaining some confidence and ammunition to help you pick the best Austin painters for your home improvement project.

1. Ask if the contractor intends to wash the surfaces to be painted before hand.

We wash all surfaces to remove dirt, grime, chalk, etc… Before we paint anything. Ever.

The method used to wash your home will depend on if your exterior or interior is being painted. We use a powerwasher to clean the exterior surfaces and we hand wash the interior surfaces with cloths soaked in warm water. Painters in Austin that have a less intense dedication to their community will skip washing their surfaces completely, especially when these surfaces happen to be interior walls!

Preparation is the vast majority of the work involved with painting projects, not the actual painting itself. The extent of the prep work will determine the longevity of your paint job more than anything else, even the quality of the paint!

1. Ask your potential contractor what steps he will take as far as prep work before the painting begins is concerned.

As far as painters Austin TX go, we try to stand out by completing the most comprehensive preparatory work standards that we know of. Carter Painting Company  includes the full extent of possible prep work on every job we do, to ensure the best quality work every time. We are dedicated to going above and beyond when it comes to the extent of our prep work, which gives your paint job the longest life possible, which will in turn provide you the greatest value for your dollar. We will powerwash the exterior or handwash the interior walls, then scrape and sand as needed to remove the old paint to ensure good coating adherence. We cover or move all furniture and remove all eletric outlet plates and any other plates that may need to be removed. Next, we will use dropcloths for the floor then mask off the windows and anyhting else that needs to be masked. At this time we we fix minor wall damage such as nail hailes and dents using joint compound. We will then do a full prime and we will sand the walls in between every coat of paint to ensure they are smooth. As we said, the quality of the prep work done before the job has the biggest impact on the final quality and longevity of your new paint job. Look for the prep work to be the area that painters Austin TX with no morals target to try and save themselves time and money while yet again failing to provide you with any sort of actual value in your investment with them.

Welcome to our continuing series about how to screen potential painters in Austin TX when choosing a contractor for your home improvement project.

1. Ask the contractor how he will be applying the paint.

In the event that we at Carter Painting Company do in fact use a sprayer on your project, we do not just spray and go. We spray the coat of paint on initially and then we use a technique called back-rolling to build stipple, and work the paint into the wall the best. This involves rolling over the entire surface of the wall that was just sprayed to ensure a high-quality job. Back-rolling results in a more durable, thicker coating which means your paint job will last much longer than had someone just sprayed the whole house and moved on to the next house, which is a tactic used by some less integrity-oriented painters in Austin TX employ to make more money without providing more value to their customers. Back-rolling is the sole way that we will use a sprayer inside or outside your home. We do not spray either of the finish coats of paint without back-rolling as doing this would result in a lower-quality finish. One sad trend in other painting contractors is the tendency to use the sprayer as a crutch to finish the job as quickly as possible. This is is not our policy and never will be. We are painters in Austin TX that stand for honesty, integrity, and producing the highest quality product that we can while providing world-class customer service to each and every one of our customers.

Welcome back to our series on how to qualify potential painting contractors. We have suggested questions to ask then we go a little more in-depth and give our own answers and insight to these questions. We try to educate when ever we can so that others may avoid the common pitfalls associated with hiring painters Austin.

1.  Ask them if all details of the project will be described in full detail on the estimate that they submit.

Carter Painting Company is dedicated to providing a high-quality and high-integrity product to every one of our customers. This is why all specific details of your project are brought to light in our very descriptive and fully detailed estimate sheets. Another thing we do is provide all inclusive estimates, we estimate the job out adhering to the highest standards of quality in our choice of materials such as paint, primer, and caulk. You can rest assured that our estimate has every step and process accounted for and that we do not skimp or shirk on any aspect of the job, from the day and time we are scheduled to arrive, to the brand and type of paint we use, to the full prep work that we complete to our own exacting standards and those of the Painting and Decorating Contractors Association. Beware of other painters Austin who appear cheaper but when you compare our estimate versus theirs, their estimate is vague about what they will actually be doing and the paint they want to use costs less than half of what ours does and is currently on sale at Walmart in the buy one get one free section.

Every project we complete is completed with 2 coats of paint as topcoats, a full prime, washing the surface beforehand to remove grime, dirt, and chalk and the walls are sanded between coats to ensure superior smoothness. So, next time you are comparing bids and one painters Austin bid is priced lower than another, look at the details of the bid to make sure you’re still comparing apples to apples before you accidentally buy an orange without realizing it. The difference in price has to come from somewhere and remember, you get what you pay for!