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Old 08-21-2007, 11:03 PM   #1
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Do ya'll have any suggestions as to good books on painting? I'm looking for detailed technical information on all aspects of painting from beginner through advanced. I don't need information on how to run a painting business - just how to do professional, commercial painting.

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Old 08-21-2007, 11:42 PM   #2
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The PDCA has a lot of info
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Old 08-22-2007, 07:27 AM   #3
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Painting is the easiest trade to learn, the hard part is perp work cause every good Painter knows that perp is 90% of a good paint job 10% is the painting itself.
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Old 08-22-2007, 12:13 PM   #4
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Painting is the easiest trade to learn, the hard part is perp work cause every good Painter knows that perp is 90% of a good paint job 10% is the painting itself.
I am not sure about the 90%.
It is not the easiest trade to learn.
20 years in it and I am not sure I know half of what I need to know.
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Old 08-22-2007, 12:14 PM   #5
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Look for the "Wheels of Learning" series in the following link:

http://www.pdca.org/store/2005Catalog.pdf
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For commercial jobs you will need much more than the Wheels of Learning. That is a great trainning program and I recommend it to anyone that needs to learn or feels the need to. I think what you more less need are documents and such pertainning to saftey and trainning for the purpose of obtainning commercial work. We had a guy that belongs to this forum make us a customized, detailed packet pertainning to work place saftey, health, trainning, gang box meeting ext. Many commercial companies or contractors require this information and need it on file. In Ohio we cannot do a commercial job over 100,000 k unless we have the saftey packet. If you need such services I would contact Mandrake or pm me and I will give you his info.

If that's not what you need PDCA and or NAPP will have what you need.
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Old 08-23-2007, 12:38 AM   #7
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Thanks for all the posts folks - looking into it all now.
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