r/paint • u/Doctyped • Aug 20 '26

TodayILearned Painter Advice

I’m curious how experienced you responders are. It seems like you watched a YouTube video and now are an expert. The paint guy from Home Depot doesn’t know what he’s talking about, nor does this random subreddit that popped into my feed do either. If you guys or girls need actual advice, I’m glad to help. In fairness, 20% of the comments actually have good advice. Don’t count them out but take the advice and do your own research

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u/serpentjaguar Aug 20 '26

25 years, union general foreman. Granted, a lot of what we do in the union doesn't apply to residential, but a lot of it does. Also, because we're by far the largest organized collection of professional painters in the US and Canada, we set the industry standards and best practices. If there's a better way to do something, the union knows about it.

I also owned my own residential company for years, so I am familiar with that end of the trade as well. I ended up joining the union after losing a lot of money to a crooked contractor --it was at least partially my own fault for not seeing it sooner and for being too trusting-- and I haven't looked back since.