Tagged as Indianapolis area painting contractors

New Construction Painting is Not the Same as a Repaint

The skills required to do a quality repaint are not the same skills required for new construction painting.  But with the slow down in new housing construction, many new home construction painters are bidding on interior repaint projects, and they may give you a price that is too good to be true to get the […]

Why Paint Before Listing Your House?

So you’ve found your dream home. It meets all the needs of your growing (or shrinking) family and even has that three car garage you have been wanting. Your next call is to your trusted Realtor® to come over and give you advice about what you need to do to get your house ready for […]

Blue Tape: the Professional Painters’ Choice for Clean Edges

I got a call the other day to do a paint estimate on a rental property. Although I don’t work on a lot of rental properties, this was close to home — in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis, so I thought I’d check it out. As it turns out, the prior renters went nuts […]

Selecting the Best Paint Finish for Walls and Trim

It used to be that walls were always done in a flat finish paint and the trim, and by trim I mean all woodwork, was painted with a gloss finish paint.  The only exceptions were kitchens and bathrooms where everything was done using gloss paint. Times have changed. Today, when a house is built, the […]

Greg Mrakich’s Tips for Painting Wood Paneling

Many homes built in the 1950s through early 1980 have wood paneling in at least one room. Some of the paneling is very high end – solid wood tongue and groove and is a great addition to the look of the home. When I lived in Los Angeles, one of my customers had me paint […]

Greg’s Exterior Painting Tips – When Selecting Colors, Consider Your Roof

On April 14, 2006,  a hail storm in Indianapolis caused 1.3 billion dollars in losses and generated 282,500 insurance claims for roofs and car damage. I remember the sound and fury of the hail hitting my roof and bouncing across my yard and driveway. Luckily, my vehicles were in the garage so I did not […]

EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule for Pre-1978 Houses

I just completed the EPA certification class and test for working in houses that were built prior to 1978.  Kudos to Sherwin Williams for sponsoring the certification class.  This RRP rule is a real game changer in as far as what it will cost to paint and remodel these homes.  If there are cracks to […]

Greg Mrakich Painting: Tips to Reduce the Cost of Your Interior Painting Project

When a painting contractor gives you a price for your interior painting project,  it is based on materials,  time and overhead. You never want to go cheap on materials,  and you really can’t do anything about your contractor’s overhead (other than hire  a small company like Greg Mrakich Painting, Indianapolis, IN). Since I have no […]

Interior Painting Tips for New Home Construction and Room Additions

I’ve been painting homes for over 20 years, both in Southern California (Pasadena area) and the last nine years in and around the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. Most of my work is custom repaint projects, but from time to time, I will be hired to paint a new house or a room addition. Here are […]

3 Tips for Hiring a Painting Company

So the “Silly Season” for painters is about to begin. I got my first call for an exterior painting estimate on the very first day of spring from a client who I did interior painting for last summer. Indianapolis area painting contractors have about a six-month window to do exterior painting every year. Rain and […]