5 Ways A Cheaper Painting Contractor May Be Worse For You in St. Louis, MO

When you’re looking to paint your home, there are many ways that you can consider going about doing it — whether you want to go the DIY route and take care of the painting yourself or whether you would rather pay someone to do the painting for you.

When you go with a painting contractor, you’re going to notice that there are a lot of people who are offering their services and sometimes you will find a listed painter that seems to be quite different from the other painters in the area in that this one will be quite a bit cheaper than others — but why is that the case?

As tempting as it may be, you should do yourself a favor and steer clear of such outlying painting contractors, as we will explain in detail here.

Here are five ways a cheaper painting contractor may be worse for you in St. Louis, MO

1. They May Not Be Licensed Or Insured

The first thing you should be aware of is that when you’re looking to hire a painting contractor and one looks to be quite a lot cheaper than the others, it may be that the really cheaper one is not licensed or insured.

This is the sort of thing that makes a huge difference when you’re hiring a painting contractor – for being neither licensed nor insured means that there’s no way that you could know if they actually know what they’re doing on the job (getting licensed means getting tested first.)

Not being insured means that if there’s an accident and there is some damage done, you’re going to be the one that will have to pay for the damages — and imagine how bad it would be if someone were to get hurt!

2. They May Be Using Cheap Subcontractors

Any good painting contractor is going to make use of employees, people that work for them and therefore are well trained as well.

The lower-priced painting contractors could well be making use of cheap subcontractors, people who they find and maybe paying who knows how little to get the work done for them quickly and cheaply.

Of course, you should be well aware that cheaply and quickly rarely means that the work was done well.

3. They Could Be Ripping You Off Outright

A rather unpleasant possibility is that the painting contractors that you hire for not a lot of money might just do a runner — take the money and run, that is.

With your excitement to hire them, you may not realize that they don’t’ put anything in writing or ask you to sign any paperwork and are rather curiously insistent that you pay them in cash… and then the next time you’re expecting to see them, they don’t make an appearance.

At that point you realize that they don’t even have a website, a business card, or a working phone number — and the good deal money that you spent for your paintwork basically just got stolen from you.

4. They Might Be Doing Sloppy Work

A less than pleasant possibility is that the people whom you hire to paint your home may just be doing sloppy work, and that is why they are charging as little as they are for their paintwork.

They could indeed just be rushing through the paintwork, not even taking the time to allow coats of anything to properly dry, and while at first glance all will look good you will realize later just how poor the paintwork looks.

5. They May Use Extremely Poor Quality Paint And Tools

Lastly, think about the distinct possibility that the reason that the painting contractor is a lot cheaper than the others is because they are just using poor quality paint and tools that are therefore cheaper than anyone else.

It again will possibly look fine for a while, but you will eventually realize that the quality of their work just doesn’t live up to what you were hoping.

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