Paint Exterior Metal Railing

Commercial buildings such as condominium and apartment buildings use metal fencing for security and aesthetic reasons. Maintaining the exterior metal railing will reduce costs and provide long lasting performance for the facility manager or owner. Our commercial painters provide maintenance services for the exterior of buildings, and painting railings is something that we do often. Winters in the Toronto area are harsh and unkind to exterior surfaces. Every spring and summer, facility managers engage in … Read more

Touch-ups Or Trade Damage

Being a new construction residential painter requires advance planning, patience and quite frankly a very thick skin. Finishing a new home is all about teamwork and being able to see the big picture. Builders and general contractors go through a lot of painters and other trades until they are comfortable with the ones they have. The contractors that succeed in new or renovated homes are a different breed of contractors. To be as productive as … Read more

Painting Facilities FAQ

Painting without Interuption FAQ about Facilities

Painting facilities has as much to do with solving problems as it does with putting paint on the wall. When we talk to a facility manager about an upcoming project we get asked the same questions. Will you work weekends or evenings? Is there an extra charge for after hours work? Who will move the furniture? Does the paint smell? Who will handle the clean up? This blog will attempt to answer the most Frequently … Read more

Protecting The Paint

How do you protect the fresh new paint and keep your facility looking good for years? The painters came and went. The paint job looks good, everything turned out perfect! Is there a way to extend the life of the paint and save on future facility painting costs? You can have the painters come in periodically and touch up in the high traffic areas. Some Commercial Painters offer maintenance services to their customers. Ecopainting offers … Read more

Ultra Spec 500 Review

Is Ultraspec 500 the perfect paint for facility services and maintenance painting? Benjamin Moore first introduced the Gennex waterborne colorants system for their top line paints. The Aura and Natura lines benefited immensely from this new technology. The writing was on the wall for their commercial paint lines. We expected that the new technology to trickle down to most of their paints. When Ultraspec 500 was introduced the commercial painting community jumped all over it. This was supposed to … Read more

Removing Wallpaper Prep

Wallpaper removal is possibly the single, most unpleasant task that painters can undertake. It is certainly a messy job, involving slimy glue residue, wet drop-cloths and garbage bags full of the stuff. What probably scares us the most is the unpredictability of the job. Very often we don’t know the age of the wallpaper. There are times that the surface was not prepared well by the installers. You can certainly test a little corner but … Read more

Educational Facility

Ecopainting is a Commercial Painting company specializing in repainting and maintenance coatings for facility managers. We are often asked to quote, and have painted for numerous public and private educational institutions. Our client list includes higher learning institutions such as Ryerson University, Trebas Institute, Humber and Seneca College. This summer we were contacted to paint the campus of The Story Arts Centre of Centennial College. The Story Arts Centre of Centennial College is located in … Read more

Colour Trends

Colour trends, such as the “Colour of the Year” influence homeowners, the paint industry, and even other industries like the fashion industry. But who are the trendsetters? Is it the consumers? Or maybe the colour consultants? Indeed, colour consultants and theorists study society’s changing mood and tastes to gauge the newest colour trends, but they don’t set them. One might argue that we, the consumers, shape colour trends, and we do. But it’s really down … Read more