Painter and Decorator

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A typical day

Load the van, be on site by 7am. Most of the morning is protection and preparation: dropping cloths, taping, filling and sanding. Paint goes on later, cutting in edges by brush and rolling or spraying the field. You work standing, reaching and on ladders, and you finish by cleaning tools that will be ruined if you skip it. Commercial jobs are big empty spaces and long spray runs. Residential jobs are somebody's living room, so you are also the polite person who moves furniture carefully.