1.     Insurance- No workers Compensation means a lower price but no protection to you from this important element of insurance coverage!

Always verify with a contractor’s agent !

2.     Quality of People Performing Work- $8.00 - $10.00 per hr. type of workmanship rarely results in a positive finish. In addition, brokered painters are often paid near poverty type wages and the overall quality of the job typically suffers. Remove the cost of material, which a contractor should be able to provide and divide by the number of hours projected for the job. This will give you some indication as to the quality of people that will be on your project.

3.     Over manning or under manning of projects- An unusually low price on a bid often results in a contractor sending out 6 – 8 painters to paint a house in a day or 1 or 2 painters working on a house for 2 or 3 weeks. Either way the customer suffers with lack of attention to detail/quality or just plain long term inconvenience.

4.     On-site Supervision- Lack of proper supervision can effect the quality of the job and supervisors have to be paid more to manage a project.

5.     The ability of the contractor to properly ascertain time to complete a job, especially those with allot of variable. Guessing or the lack of using standards of some sort will frequently result in proposals being sometimes dramatically underbid. Less is certainly not going to be more in this case.

6.     Specific specs being detailed in a bid as to product & technique. The less specific a bid, the more likely shortcuts will be taken to compromise the end result..

7.     Attention to detail or lack thereof. Proper protection, masking, clean lines, proper priming, double rolling walls, and clean up. Proper time in a bid has to be accounted for to attend to these things.

                         FOOD FOR THOUGHT

     It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay to little. When you pay too much, you lose a little- that is all. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything, because the thing that you bought was incapable of doing the job it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)

Stellar is proud to have serviced the following areas for Interior Painting, Exterior Painting and all our Kitchen, Bath, Basemnet Finish and General Remodeling Services:

Denver Co., Littleton Co., Centennial Co., Parker Co, Aurora Co., Castle Rock, Co., Westminster Co., Thornton Co., Northglenn Co, Evergreen Co., Golden Co., Lakewood Co., Wheat Ridge Co., Englewood Co., Cherry Creek, Co., Morrison, Co., Castle Pines Co., and Roxborough Park, Co.