Ryan is an award winner for his outstanding painting and marketing work, You can find his contributions to the painting community across numerous blog sites and on his YouTube channel.
His company has won Best Painting Company four years in a row by Lehigh Valley Style and Best Painting Company twice by What's Happening. Also being named Emerging Business of the year 2015 and also 2017
Ryan Amato Painting
306 S. New St
Bethlehem, Pa 18015
484-821-7112
Being present is much more than simply being there, you know you can be physically there but miles away in your mind.
When you call any company to come out and give you an estimate all the want is to be able to give you an accurate cost and possibly do the work for you.
By not taking this seriously you are wasting their time but more importantly what happens if you actually give them the project to do and you never reviewed all the information with them? You're setting the project up for missed expectations and possible failure.
I cannot tell you how many times I go look at a huge painting project and get little to no information from the client. It makes it hard to give an actually detailed estimate, there are always many follow up questions that could have been avoided on-site and the work order the painters follow is one we made up with this little info given.
This can all be avoided
All of this can be avoided simply by putting your phone down and devoting the 15-30 minutes it takes to do YOUR estimate. Speaking about all the details and reviewing the project onsite.
Remember not every company does things the exact same way.
I have had the luxury to be able to interview, meet and interact with many great people from all walks of life, from business to sports to entertainment and I wanted to start to bring these discussions to you.
You will soon find out even though we all come from different walks of life we all have many of the same things in common.
Listen in as we speak to Mark about his life, business and family and I hope you can learn a few things to use in your world as well
We recently had the opportunity to interview David Galkin of Fish Window Cleaning of the Lehigh Valley's owner David Galkin
I have had the luxury to be able to interview, meet and interact with many great people from all walks of life, from business to sports to entertainment and I wanted to start to bring these discussions to you.
You will soon find out even though we all come from different walks of life we all have many of the same things in common.
Listen in as we speak to David about his life, business and family and I hope you can learn a few things to use ion your world as well
If you have not heard of metallic epoxy you will soon in our area.
In other parts of the country metallic epoxy is used inside people's homes, in kitchens, on the entire first floor, in garages, stores and more.
It offers a very unique and custom element to any area and brings the wow factor to the space it is used in. WIth any epoxy however you have to know what you're doing and be able to follow very specific details when applying this product.
With metallic epoxy it is very creative and artistic so it does not mean any person can do it, you have to make adjustments on the fly, no two floors or applications will ever be the same for this reason and we prefer to have one person working on the floor at least in the final creative portion otherwise you will end up with two different techniques, this also can be fine too as it is custom.
It is hard to match certain looks on sample pieces unless the person doing the sample also does the application. Many things go into the final look, the base coat, the lighting of the room and the reflection of those lights can also change the look not to mention the metallic pigments will also change, the way your application looks the first day is not what it will look like the next.
Here you can see we had an old table lying around so why not coat it with metallic epoxy?
We used Armorpoxy of New Jersey high solid epoxy clear along with metallic pigments., at first you can see we disbursed the epoxy with alcohol but then decided to go over it, we added blue highlights with epoxy and white using a spray can and then hand created the final look. You can contact us for any epoxy project you have in mind, we would love to take a look at it
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Kitchen Countertops or paint the cabinets first?
We are asked this question all the time and it is a great one.
In a perfect world, everything goes as planned and this is a simple answer.
But as we all know it is never that easy
Even with the most conscientious contractor mistakes happen and small damage can occur such as scratches, dings, and dents, if you refinish your kitchen cabinets first and then have backsplashes or countertops done there is a very good chance some things can happen.
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When mistakes happen it costs money, it costs money to the painter to come back and do touch-ups and in turn that cost will be given to the homeowner to cover or put in the estimate in the first place to cover these incidental costs so we recommend doing your painting AFTER all other work is complete.
Floors can be covered, counters can also be covered and protected from any damage.
Think about it wouldn't it be great to start and complete a project without having to ask contractors to come back out?
Having your painter do his or her work after all other trades have been in is a perfect way to maintain project costs while getting a top-quality job.
You need or want an epoxy floor for your business or home and you start to search around, look online and have a few estimates.
What you find is the information you receive may be all over the place but one thing that is more important than the type of epoxy used or who does your epoxy project is the preparation needs to be done and done well and specifically how the epoxy being used mandates.
Read the specifications
With every paint or epoxy, you buy or consider using you should have access to the datasheets an inside those data sheets it will specify the application and preparation methods needed and may even note the CSP (concrete surface profile) level needed.
I would bet some companies you have had out may have never heard of CSP profiles but they are so important to know and must be met so you have a manufactures warranty on your floor.
CSP
Concrete Surface Profile (CSP) is the measure of the average distance from the peaks of the surface to the valleys as seen through a cross-sectional view of the concrete surface. The standards are rated 1-9 with 1 being the smoothest and 9 being the roughest.
The CSP is important to consider when trying to achieve proper bonding of concrete overlays and coatings. Generally, when using a thick overlay, the CSP needs to be higher. When using a coating that is slim, a smoother CSP of 2 to 4 is correct. When using thicker self-leveling and polymer overlays, the appropriate CSP will range from 4 to 6. (ref )
Every person who is coating your floor should know what csp profile is needed and have the csp samples to match up before applying any coating.
Acid Etch or Grind?
When it comes to preparing concrete for a garage floor coating, the best method is to grind the garage floor. One of the reasons for this is that the profile of the surface can be controlled to provide the desired outcome. It provides a rougher and more porous surface that is considered ideal. It will also remove excess laitance that acid etching doesn’t always remove. Link
Remember, acid etching will not remove dirt and oil from your concrete floor. It still needs to be cleaned first. Etching works by reacting with the free lime in concrete. If the concrete is coated in oil or grime, the acid will not be very effective.
The results
So what happens if you do not prepare your floor?
This is an actual site we were asked to come out and diagnose the issue of the previous companies coating, it was pretty easy to tell the floor was installed over an unprepared sealed concrete floor. In this or most any environment, the flor would never work and of course, you get failure.
Not only did they pay the first contractor, now they had to pay us to remove that coating, grind the floor and install another coating, so double or triple the original price
Do it right first
Please do the project correctly the first time and save yourself a lot of headaches and money down the road, we have seen it time and time again.
Check out out my video on this subject and hopefully, we can save you some issues
We receive questions all the time about the painting projects we do. it seems there is a mystery on some things as contractors sometimes can be very secretive and not disclose everything that may or may not happen.
What we like to do is answer every possible question there may be, we have found it solves many issue s that may happen on job sites, reduce missed expectations and create a great template for a perfect project if there is such a thing.
So if you have any questions we have not addressed here we would LOVE to hear them, please send them over to us and we will add them to our list for our next video.
When your receiving multiple bids and speaking to different painting contractors or any contractors for that matter you will hear all kinds of things, from the way they will do your project, how they run their business to the types of products they will use. This is why it is so hard to compare proposals as we spoke about in this blog
So sit back and enjoy the video we did, we hope it can help answer some of the painting questions that you may have.
We recently had the pleasure of working for a great client Valentino. He was referred to us by another client we did work for two years ago.
Ryan visited Valentino’s home after he scheduled an estimate, upon arriving it was clear the need to have the garage floor done was because he was having a large family gathering and the floor just had not been maintained over the years.
This was an easy floor to solve except for one thing, he needed it done within a week of us doing the estimate, that presents a few issues such as scheduling, other projects already scheduled and sourcing the materials.
Everything fell right into place however, it turned out we had an open day before starting two other floors and we were able to fo this floor in one day, it all worked out great. As he was looking for a quick cosmetic coating and with the requests we come back out in the Spring and do a fully epoxy flaked floor, the perfect floor was not his wish this time around.
We still diamond grinded the floor and then applied two full coats of a water-based epoxy to the garage floor, he was so happy he did a video review for us.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Kitchen Cabinet Painting FAQ'S
We are asked questions all the time about the kitchen cabinet painting process and why not? Painting your kitchen cabinets can save so much money vs replacing or refacing them.
At typically more then half the cost you can dramatically change the appearance of your home and kitchen in a few days.
Using the top of the line materials and the proper preparation procedures are vital to this type of painting. You want to make sure the company you choose has a vast knowledge of this process and that includes what to do when something goes wrong. From cleaning to priming and painting there are many steps that can go the wrong way and experience are vital so you can avoid or correct these issues should they happen.
Do you have other questions that we can answer? Please reach out to us Email Us We would love to hear from you and help answer painting questions you may have.
When you call any company to come out and give you an estimate all the want is to be able to give you an accurate cost and possibly do the work for you. 
