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GreenWave Solutions Now Offering Roswell House Painting

During the past few years, GreenWave Solutions has performed most of our professional painting and drywall services in Atlanta, Buckhead, Brookhaven and Sandy Springs.  We have started to outgrow the perimeter and are now offering our house painting and residential drywall contracting in Roswell, GA.

Roswell is a suburb about 10 miles north of I-285.  Roswell has a nice blend of new and old homes.  Like much of metro Atlanta, Roswell is growing as people continue spreading into the suburbs.

GreenWave Solutions wants everyone in Roswell to know that we are now offering our professional house painting services in Roswell.  So whether you want to update the colors in your old home or have a new house and want to upgrade the cheap builder paint, our professional house painters are here to help.

We specialize in interior painting, exterior painting, pressure washing, deck staining, deck sealing, cabinet finishing, cabinet refinishing, drywall repair, drywall installation, popcorn ceiling texture removal, stippled ceiling texture smoothing, carpentry, rotten wood replacement and more!

In order to help expand into Roswell, GA faster, GreenWave Solutions will offer clients in Roswell 15% off any painting or drywall project that is over $2000.

Call GreenWave Solutions today to schedule your free estimate and see why we’re one of the best painting contractors in Atlanta.  404-549-7776

GreenWave Solutions is Atlanta’s first green painting contractor.  We proudly serve Atlanta, Brookhaven, Buckhead, Chamblee, Dunwoody, Inman Park, Grant Park, Ansley Park, Midtown, Morningside, Virginia Highlands, Vinings, Roswell and more.

Call us today to see if we offer our professional services in your area.

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Winter Exterior House Painting

Atlanta has a temperate climate.  All four seasons represent themselves with green springs, hot summers, colorful falls and cold winters.  One of the best parts of being a painting company in Atlanta is that we can perform exterior painting all year long.

Obviously, we can’t paint outside during rain or freezing temperatures but those conditions usually don’t last more than a few days at a time.

The reason that we can paint outside during the winter is because paint manufacturers have formulated their exterior coatings for low temperature application.  For instance, Sherwin Williams Emerald, Duration, SuperPaint and A-100 all can be applied in temperatures as low as 35 degrees Fahrenheit.   35 degrees is the surface temperature, not the air temperature.

Because GreenWave Solutions focuses on quality instead of production, we don’t push the low temperature limits of the paints.  Even though the paint says it can be applied at 35 degrees, you must determine many factors when painting in winter.  An important factor other than temperature is daylight.  If the paint doesn’t have time to set before sunset, surfactants leaching becomes a real problem.

These obscure, but important, details are why you should hire a professional to perform your exterior house painting.

Call GreenWave Solutions to schedule your free estimate – 404-549-7776

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Winter Weather Means in Interior Painting Season

Wow we’ve had some weird weather this year.  Summer was unseasonably cool and rainy.  Then we had a week of spring-like weather.  Thanksgiving was in the 20s.  The first week of December was in the 60s and now it’s cold and rainy.

There is no telling what Christmas is going to be like.  The one thing that we know is that this winter is unpredictable.  Unpredictable winters usually mean snow or ice storms.  In Atlanta, winter storms shut down the city because we don’t have  a lot of those machines they have up north to clear roads.

Personally, I like being snowed in (as long as there is power).  It makes you step away from work and spend time with family and friends.  There isn’t the pressure or temptation to go out because everything is closed and you can’t drive.  It nice to work out then watch movies, eat snacks and take naps.  And I nearly forgot to mention the best thing about winter storms; SNOWBALL FIGHTS!

If you’re wondering how this article relates to interior painting, you’re not alone.  I just realized that I forgot where I was going with that intro because I was thinking about how much fun snow ins are.

Back to the paint.

Because they predict that we are going to have wild winter weather, we will probably all spend a lot of time inside of our homes.  Since the weather outside is going to be cold, dark and possibly dreary, you should do everything possible to make your interior feel warm, cozy and inviting.

Interior house painting is the easiest way to achieve this goal.  New colors or even flatter finishes can make your home’s interior feel entirely different.

Because GreenWave Solutions is one of Atlanta’s finest interior painting company, you should call us to get an estimate for interior painting.

We are giving 15% interior painting projects until March 15, 2014.  Call us today to get a free estimate.

Remember, GreenWave Solutions also does cabinet finishing, exterior painting, color consultations, drywall installation and more!

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GreenWave Solutions Drywall Contracting for Residential Projects

GreenWave Solutions Drywall Contracting Services.

GreenWave Solutions has grown and evolved over the years.  We started doing VOC compliant painting, cool roofs, photo voltaic energy systems, rainwater harvesting and radiant heat barriers.  It turned out that people didn’t care that much about sustainable contracting so we discontinued many of those services.

What survived the recession was our paint contracting division.  Residential painting didn’t just survive, it thrived.  Along with house painting came other painting/coating related services.  One of these service was drywall contracting.

We found that there was a gap in the drywall contracting industry.  The limitation was that they weren’t professional drywall contractors that did small to medium residential drywall projects.  If you needed to drywall entire apartment complex or a new house, you can find lots of contractors.  However, if you only wanted to drywall an unfinished basement or even a few rooms in an unfinished basement, you don’t have many reputable options.

Another void we saw in the drywall industry was that most drywall contractors didn’t offer painting services.  This was most surprising.  As a business person, I didn’t understand why you would hang and finish all the drywall and not offer to prime and paint it, too.  You make more money, duh.  Contractors aren’t known as being the sharpest tool in the van.

We already had the painting part of this equation covered so we started researching and interviewing drywall professionals.  It turned out that some of our crew leaders knew drywall guys so we joined forces.

The outcome was GreenWave Solutions drywall contracting services.  Our drywall contracting is a full service solution from studs to paint.  We hang, tape, sand, finish, prime and paint drywall.  We also install trim, doors, and moulding.

Do you have an unfinished basement and want to make a guest room, office or playroom?  GreenWave Solutions can do this.  Our prices are competitive to other high-end contracting services.

Call us today to get a free estimate on your drywall installation project – 404-549-7776

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2013 Holiday House Painting Specials

It’s November and that means it’s officially holiday season.  We have Thanksgiving, a month of holiday parties and finally New Year’s Eve.  All these holidays mean a lot of holiday guests.

Holiday guests include family, in-laws and co-workers.  Sometimes guests use the condition of your home as a discussion topic.  We all know that most in-laws would never judge you for not having fresh, clean walls, some do.

If you have been putting off your interior house painting all year, November is the time to get it done.

We understand that the holidays can get expensive so we are offering 20% off all residential painting projects over $2,500 the rest of 2013.  If your needs are smaller and you only need a room or two painted, we will give you 10% off any jobs under $2,500.

Don’t wait too long because GreenWave Painting Solutions’ schedule fills up fast this time of year and you only have a few weeks before the guests start coming.

Call 404-549-7776 to schedule your free estimate.

GreenWave Solutions is Atlanta’s first ‘green’ painting company.  Our professional house painters serve most of Metro Atlanta including Brookhaven, Sandys Springs, Buckhead, Inman Park, Grant Park, Chastain, Vinings, Virginia Highlands, Roswell, Alpharetta, Chamblee, Dunwoody, Decatur and more!

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New GreenWave Solutions Residential Painting Services

Residential house painting is GreenWave Solutions’ specialty.

Residential painting requires the most skilled and professional painters available for a myriad of reasons.  Here are some of them:

  • You must have professional and trustworthy painters because you are inside people’s homes and around their families.
  • The painters must be clean and careful because they work around furniture, decoration and other valuable property.
  • Painters must be skilled at using high-end coatings, professional finishing and painting straight lines.
  • Painters must be polite and respectful as they typically work in close proximity to women and children.

The above stated characteristics of residential painting contractors are equally important because ignoring any one can cause huge problems.

GreenWave Solutions carefully interviews and screens all of our painters because we understand the importance of employing high-caliber people to represent us.  We know that our fantastic reputation is what separates us from the competition and strive to provide our clients with the best service possible.

We train our painters about how to use high-end specialty coatings, as well as the importance of demonstrating professionalism to all of our clients.

As we prepare to grow GreenWave Solutions for 2014, we are offering residential house painting promotions.  One of the most exciting promotions we have is 15% off all residential house painting in the Atlanta Metro area.

This includes:

  • Atlanta
  • Buckhead
  • Brookhaven
  • Dunwoody
  • Chamblee
  • Sandy Springs
  • Alpharetta
  • Roswell
  • Vinings
  • Virginia Highlands
  • Grant Park
  • Inman Park
  • Candler Park
  • Marietta (some exclusions apply)
  • Milton
  • Northside
  • Morningside
  • And more – Call us at 404-549-7776 to see if we serve your area

GreenWave Solutions residential house painting services include:

  • Interior painting
  • Exterior painting
  • Deck staining and sealing
  • Cabinet painting and cabinet lacquers
  • Decorative concrete staining
  • Concrete polishing
  • Popcorn ceiling removal
  • Stipple texture ceiling smoothing
  • Wallpaper removal
  • Lead paint removal, lead paint abatement
  • Color consultation
  • Carpentry
  • Drywall Repair and drywall installation
  • And more!

Call us today to schedule your free residential painting estimate!

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Atlanta Exterior House Painting Company

A building’s exterior is the first impression guests get when visiting somewhere.

Think about the first time you go to a doctor’s office, restaurant or hair salon.  If you pull up to a building that is unkempt, messy or dirty, you may think twice about using this businesses services.

Now think about if you are taking your child to a new friend’s sleepover and pull up to a poorly maintained house with old, peeling paint and plants growing out of the gutters.  Many parents may feel uneasy about leaving their child at this house and think to themselves, “Hmm.  If these people don’t even take care of their home, how are they going to take care of my child?”

We all know the old adage, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.”  And while it may be unfair to judge people based upon how they maintain their home, we still do.

Anyone that owns a home knows that keeping up with a house can be time consuming and expensive, however, it’s a responsibility that comes with home ownership.

One of the least expensive and easiest ways to make your house look new and clean is with fresh exterior house painting.

GreenWave Solutions has been performing high quality exterior house painting in Atlanta for nearly 10 years.  We’ve painting hundreds of Metro Atlanta homes over years and have it down to a science.

Here’s how we do professional exterior house painting:

  • Pressure wash the home’s entire exterior
  • Perform all necessary carpentry.  We replace rotten wood around windows, doors, trim, soffit, and fascia.
  • Extensive prep work.  We remove old, dried caulk and recaulk around doors, windows, trim and cornice.  This creates a seamless finish.  We scrape all peeling paint and spot prime bare areas.  If there is rust on handrails, we scrape and prime it, too.
  • After the house is clean and thoroughly prepared, we begin painting.
  • We use Sherwin Williams’ best coatings.  We spray siding and cornice to make sure that we get a think, smooth paint finish that will look great for years.  We paint doors, windows and other detailed work by hand.
  • Once we finish painting, we do a quality inspection walk through, perform touch ups and clean up the job site to pre-project conditions.

Of course each all houses are different so sometimes the preparation changes according to the condition of home and from what it is built.

GreenWave Solutions is offering 15% off all exterior house painting projects this Fall.

Call us today to schedule your free estimate 404-549-7776

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Fall House Painting Specials

Is that football I hear?

Yes it is!  And football means that Fall is here.

We didn’t have a typical Atlanta summer this year.  It was one of the coolest and rainiest summers in recorded history.  It was good for interior painting, however, many Atlanta residents postponed their exterior painting projects due to the constant rain.  I’m not a weatherman, but I’m right about the weather about the same percent of the time and I hope that we have an unseasonably dry and warm Fall.

Typically, Fall is good season for exterior painting.  The lower temperature and relative humidity allow the paint to dry at near perfect conditions (manufacturers rate most coatings at around 70 degrees at 60% humidity).  Also, there is no pollen or surprise thunder showers like in Spring and Summer.

GreenWave Solutions is offering 15% off exterior house painting in Atlanta to help our neighbors that didn’t get to take advantage of our Summer specials.

Our 15% off Fall house painting special includes:

  • Exterior Painting

  • Interior Painting

  • Deck Staining and Sealing

  • House Painting

  • Cabinet Finishing

  • Wallpaper Removal

  • Popcorn Ceiling Texture Removal

  • Stipple Texture Ceiling Smoothing

These are only some of the many services that our skilled painters, carpenters and craftsmen do to make your home a more beautiful place.

Call us today to learn more about GreenWave Solutions’ services and specials.  Our professional interior and exterior painters serve Atlanta, Alpharetta, Roswell, Brookhaven, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Buckhead, Midtown, Grant Park, Inman Park, Decatur, Chamblee and other affluent Metro Atlanta suburbs.

Call GreenWave Solutions for your free estimate at 404-549-7776

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Brookhaven GA Finest Painting Contractor

We love Brookhaven, Georgia!

Not only is it Atlanta’s newest city, but also our home.  Since its incorporation in 2012, Brookhaven has quickly become one of Atlanta’s premier addresses.  Brookhaven’s demographic breakdown is similar to Dunwoody and Sandy Springs:  affluent, educated professionals.

Also like Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, Brookhaven has a wide array of homes.  From brand new to 60 years old, Brookhaven has a little bit of everything.  Brookhaven needs painting contractors that can do a lot of everything.  GreenWave Solutions can handle any kind of painting and coating project.

As City of Brookhaven charter members, GreenWave Solutions is Brookhaven’s Official Painting Company.

Because GreenWave Solutions wants to give back to the community that has been so good to us, we are offering specials on residential painting in Brookhaven.

GreenWave Solutions Brookhaven painting specials include:

  • Free driveway pressure washing with full home exterior painting
  • 20% off full exterior house painting
  • 20% off full interior house painting
  • 25% off full interior and exterior house painting
  • Free Sherwin Williams Emerald paint upgrade on full exterior painting
  • Free Sherwin Williams Emerald paint upgrade on full interior painting projects
  • $100 gift card for any project over $4000.00
  • Free window cleaning with full exterior or interior painting
  • AND MORE…

Call GreenWave Solutions today to get your free estimate and learn more about our Brookhaven house painting specials and promotions.

Remember that GreenWave Solutions does more than painting, we also perform the following high end services:

  • Color consulting
  • Concrete Acid Staining
  • Concrete polishing
  • Color Design
  • Fine finishing on Cabinets
  • Cabinet glazing
  • Cabinet antiquing
  • Lacquer wood work
  • Onsite HVLP lacquer application
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Top Rated House Painters in Dunwoody GA

Dunwoody GA, incorporated in 2008, is an Atlanta suburb with a population of about 46,000 people.  Dunwoody, Georgia is only 12 square miles, but that is enough to pack in a lot of goodness.  This mostly residential Atlanta suburb has a great mix of old homes and new homes.  The styles of homes are also very diverse.   From 1960’s one-story ranch styles to 2010’s stacked stone mansions, Dunwoody has a little bit of everything.

Having so many different types of homes requires house painters in Dunwoody to have large skill sets and experience.  One day you may be painting a 5 year old house whose paint is simply faded or worn and the next project could involve a 50 year old house with 6 layers of lead paint that is cracking and peeling.

Although both of these projects are paint jobs, they each require very different processes and licenses to be completed correctly (and legally).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found direct correlations between lead’s toxicity and the rise in dumb people in America.  Lead paint was not banned until 1978.  Consequently, there is a high probability that any home built prior to 1978 contains lead paint.

Because of lead’s acute dangers, the EPA requires contractors working on pre-1978 home to earn lead removal certifications.  This certification proves the contractor understands the dangers of lead and knows how to safely abate the lead and paint or renovate the home without putting anyone in lead danger.

GreenWave Solutions is RRP Certified by the EPA and GPD.  GreenWave Solutions is lead paint certified.

Dunwoody, GA has been good to us, so we want to give something back.  GreenWave Painting Solutions offers 15% off to all residential painting projects in Dunwoody GA through October 1st 2013.

This includes:

  • Interior Painting
  • Exterior Painting
  • Color Consulting
  • Decorative Concrete Polishing, Staining, and Epoxy Floors
  • Deck Staining and Sealing
  • Cabinets finishing, Glazing, Lacquers
  • Faux Painting
  • House Painting

Call GreenWave Solutions today to get your free estimate and 15% off for Dunwoody painting projects.

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GreenWave Solutions is Sandy Springs GA Top Painting Company

Sandy Springs was one of north Atlanta’s first affluent communities to get annexed as a new city.  Sandy Springs’ residents fought long and hard to gain independence from the City of Atlanta.  City of Atlanta didn’t want to lose the valuable tax dollars from this affluent suburb, but Sandy Springs wanted the ability to control zoning laws and codes to make the area as nice as it should be.

Once Sandy Springs was incorporated, it got nicer almost immediately.  The new city cleaned up many of the city of Atlanta’s zoning missteps.  You can see remnants of this on Roswell road in the form of “massage” spas and dirty apartments.  But fortunately, most of this has been abated and Sandy Springs property values have boomed.

Homes in Sandy Springs, like much of Atlanta, are very diverse.  Some houses were built in the 1960’s and others were built during the last few years.  Either way, many of these house need painting and home improvement and that’s where GreenWave Solutions comes in.

Based in Brookhaven, GreenWave Solutions has been serving Sandy Springs for nearly 10 years.  Our Sandy Springs painters have experience working on all of the different kinds of home in the area.  Now that we are lead certified painters in Atlanta, we can perform painting and renovations on all of the homes in Sandy Springs, GA.

Because Sandy Springs has been so good to us, we want to give something back.  We are offering 20% discounts on all residential painting services to Sandy Springs home owners for the month July.  This includes:

Call us today for a free estimate at 404-549-7776!

 

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Best Painting Contractor in Buckhead

Buckhead is a community just north of Atlanta.  While, Buckhead is not an incorporated city, everyone knows it.  From fine dining and upscale shopping to Atlanta’s best bar scene, Buckhead is where you need to go if you want the best Georgia has to offer.

Buckhead’s coolness doesn’t stop at restaurants and stores, the houses and condos are just as impressive.  From cute, little old houses to 10,000+ ft2 cribs, Buckhead’s houses are full of character.

Since Buckhead has the best restaurants, malls, and houses, we figured that it should also have the best painting contractor.  Enter GreenWave Solutions.  We have been painting and doing home improvements in Buckhead since the beginning.  Our painters know what the houses and clients in Buckhead expect from a painting company.

ALSO, GreenWave Solutions has received our RRP Lead Certification.  This means that we are licensed by the EPA to safely and legally work on homes built before 1978 that contain lead paints.  This lead paint certification is kind of a big deal.  Up until 2010, the only party liable for doing lead work without a certified contractor was the contractor.  This created a large market for home owners who would hire unlicensed contractors to do the work “on the low” to save some money.

Now liability for doing unlicensed lead work falls on the contractor and the home.  Stay tuned as we have an updated article about this…Back to Buckhead house painting.

We are offering 20% off and lead paint abatement project during the summer of 2013.  We are also offering 15% off any residential painting project in Buckhead through summer.  These can’t be stacked on each other.

Our services include:

Call us today for your free estimate – 404-549-7776

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Summer House Painting Specials

Although it has felt like summer for a while, the summer equinox just happened which makes it official.  After just one season in Atlanta, you quickly learn why they call it “Hotlanta.”

While the temperature outside is hot, GreenWave Solutions’ prices are cool.  We are offering 15-20% off all residential house painting and decorative concrete finishing services during the ENTIRE SUMMER!

This includes our core service area of Metro Atlanta;  Atlanta, Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead, Chamblee, Doraville, Dunwoody, Grant Park, Inman Park, Marietta, Milton, Roswell, Sandy Springs, and Vinings.

Our summer special includes the following services:

 

 

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House Painting Contractors in Alpharetta GA

Summer is not officially here according to the equinox, but we’ve past Memorial Day and that means summer in Georgia.  This summer, GreenWave Solutions is going to offer exclusive Alpharetta house painting specials!

Alpharetta, one of Atlanta’s most affluent suburbs, has wide open spaces blanketed with subdivisions full of beautiful homes.  Many of these houses are between 10-20 years old and need the attention of GreenWave Solutions Alpharetta painters.

Exterior house painting is a simple and inexpensive way to preserve and maintain the beauty of your home.  It starts with a thorough pressure washing to remove dirt, debris and other surface contaminants.  After pressure washing, we will perform any carpentry and replace rotten wood or siding.  Then we prepare everything for painting.  This includes caulking gaps and joints, scraping peeling painting, priming bare areas, filling holes and patching imperfections.

Once the house is ready, it time to paint it.  GreenWave Solutions applies exterior coating using professional paint sprayers, just as the manufacturers recommend.  Spraying applies a thicker, smoother coating which translates to a longer lasting job for our clients.  Don’t be fooled by the “we do all work by hand” line.  It may sound good, but machines do better than humans when operated by a skilled professional.

Why do we use bulldozers to move dirt instead of using 300 guys with shovels?

At this point, we are almost done beautifying your home.  We perform quality inspection walk through with our client and project manager.  At this point, we fix any touch ups and tie up all loose ends.

Finally, we clean up and leave our job site how it was when we got there; except of course for the magnificent, freshly painted house.

This isn’t the only way to perform exterior painting in Alpharetta, but it is the way that GreenWave Solutions has a nearly perfect customer satisfaction record.

Call us today for your free residential painting estimate – 404-549-7776

Our 15% off discount applies to all residential projects costing $1500.00 or more and includes:

 

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GreenWave Solutions Atlanta Painting Services Update

GreenWave Solutions has a very large website boasting many services.  We understand that it can be overwhelming so we created a list of services and their service areas.  These are our core products for which we have the greatest demand.  This list, by no means, represents the only services we offer.  If you don’t see a home improvement service that you need or don’t see your city listed, please call or email us because we still may be able to provide you our first class service that Metro Atlanta has become used to.

Here is a quick refresher of some of our most popular services that made GreenWave Solutions the finest green contractor in Atlanta:

Buckhead GA Painting Services

Sandy Springs GA Painting Services

Roswell GA Painting Services

  • Painting Contractor Roswell
  • Painter in Roswell
  • Roswell house painting
  • Exterior painting Roswell

Atlanta GA Painting Services

  • Painters
  • House Painting
  • Professional painting contractor
  • Color Consultation Atlanta

Dunwoody GA Painting Services

Brookhaven GA Painting Services

Again this does not represent everything we do, nor all the cities we serve.  We also provide the following high quality services:

  • Deck staining and sealing
  • Siding replacement
  • Wood floor installation
  • Wood floor finishing
  • Carpentry
  • Popcorn ceiling removal
  • Texture ceiling smoothing
  • Stipple texture ceiling smoothing
  • Wall paper removal
  • Rotten wood replacement
  • and much, much more!

GreenWave Solutions also proudly serves the following areas:

  • Alpharetta
  • Milton
  • Cumming (not all areas)
  • Marietta (not all areas)
  • Decatur
  • Chamblee
  • East Atlanta
  • Grant Park
  • Inman Park
  • Little 5 points
  • Virginia Highlands
  • Johns Creek
  • Duluth
  • Doraville
  • Vinings
  • Midtown Atlanta
  • And most other upscale parts of Metro Atlanta

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Sherwin Williams Eminence Review

As a high end painting company in Atlanta, we like to use the best quality paints and coatings on our projects.  Part of using the best products is always trying and testing new products.  Sherwin Williams helps this process by giving us demo products to use and provide professional feedback.

Today, we are reviewing Sherwin Williams’ Eminence.  Eminence is a high performance, interior ceiling paint.

We used to use ProMar 200 flat on ceilings until recently, when the 0-VOC reformulation rendered a flat with high angular sheen.  Having any sheen associated with your ceiling is asking for trouble due to the typically mediocre drywall work on ceiling.

Choosing the “right” ceiling paint can be challenging.  You don’t need any durability because ceilings get no traffic.  Your first instinct is “get the cheapest flat paint they have.”  This can cause problems because the cheap paints look cheap and have an ugly finish.

So what do you do?

Use Eminence.

The Upside:

Eminence is an acrylic latex paint which gives it low-VOC and water clean up properties.  It comes in a clean, bright white.  Eminence is a thick, sticky paint that prevents it from misting paint all over the painter and floor.

Upon drying, Eminence reveals an exceptionally smooth and flat finish.  This finish does a fantastic job hiding tapes lines and other substrate imperfections common with ceilings.

The Downside:

Eminence’s only drawback is it’s perceived cost.  We painters are used to getting our ceiling paint cheap; like $10/gallon. When you pay nearly $30/gallon for ceiling paint, it is tough to swallow.  However, the finished product speaks for itself so I guess we must revert to the old adage, “you get what you pay for.”

The Verdict for Eminence high performance ceiling paint is…Awesome!

I love this product, my painters love this product, and most importantly, my clients love this product.  Eminence’s ease of application and outstanding performance makes it worth the extra money it costs.  Hopefully, Sherwin Williams will give us some special pricing after reading how much GreenWave Solutions loves their Eminence coating.

Right, Johnny? 😉

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GreenWave Solutions is the best painting contractor in Atlanta.  Our painters perform high-quality painting and drywall work in Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Buckhead, Chamblee, Decatur, Doraville, Milton, John’s Creek, Dunwoody, Grant Park, Virginia Highlands, Smyrna, Vinings, Marietta and many other metro Atlanta cities.

Call us about our house painting specials!

 

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Hey Atlanta, It’s time for Exterior House Painting

Winter is over, pine pollen is over, April showers are over and that means it’s time for exterior painting and staining.  It’s also time for a bunch of fun things, but since we are a painting company that is what we’ll focus on.

The U.S. has experienced an economically turbulent decade.  The 2000’s began with one of the largest construction booms we’ve seen and was followed by an equally significant crash.

During the boom, 10’s of 1000’s of homes were built in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Milton, Sandy Springs and the rest of the metro areas.  Most of these home were painted using inexpensive, construction-grade paint which lasts only 5-6 years.

It’s been 10 years and it’s there are thousands of homes around Atlanta that need a fresh coat of some high quality paint.  GreenWave Solutions was founded by Atlanta natives that understand the elements that our home’s must stand up to and we are ready to help get everyone’s homes fresh and beautiful.

Our skilled painters specialize in applying all of the new ‘green’ coating and know get the most of the space-age acrylic resins.  GreenWave Solutions’ exterior residential painting projects both look beautiful and last a long time.  We are so confident in our work that we warranty all of our projects.

If you want an entirely new color scheme or just want to refresh your exterior, GreenWave Solutions can help.

Call us today for you free estimate at 404-549-7776 or fill out our contact form.

GreenWave Solutions offers painting services in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Decatur, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Brookhaven, Duluth, Grant Park, Inman Park, Buckhead,Milton, Midtown, and more!

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How to Remove Stubborn Stipple Texture

As the best painter Sandy Springs has to offer, GreenWave Solutions gets involved in all kinds of cool and challenging projects.  One service that we have had many recent requests for is ceiling smoothing.  This includes both popcorn texture and stipple texture.

As a construction professional, I loathe both of these finishing systems because I know builders use them.  Textured drywall finishes are used to hide shoddy drywall finishes.  Drywall has 6 different levels of finish and here is a brief description of each:

  • Level 0:  Boards simply hung with no tape or mud.
  • Level 1:  Drywall and hung and taped, but the tape isn’t covered with joint compound.  Boards may have unfinished tool damage.
  • Level 2:  Boards hung, tape embedded in joint compound and screw holes are mudded.
  • Level 3:  Boards hung, tape and fastener heads embedded in joint compound, excess joint compound wiped clean.
  • Level 4:  Same as level 3, with two coats of drywall compound on fastener heads, tapes and other imperfections.  Then sand joint compound.
  • Level 5:  Same as level 4 plus a skim coat of joint compound on all drywall and full sanding.

Here is a great detailed explanation of drywall finishing

 

For ceilings and walls with a textured finish, such stipple, popcorn, knockdown or orange peel, you stop at level 3.  You can stop at level 3 because the texture is applied to cover the incomplete drywall finishing.

Typically, popcorn and stipple texture come off from ceilings quite easily.  However, when you run into a stubborn batch of texture, it is going to be a long project.  We ran into this on a project just a few weeks ago.

GreenWave Solutions was contracted to do stipple texture removal on a Alpharetta interior painting project.  After we finished covering walls and floors, the crew began removing the stipple texture.  They did the normal process of applying warm water onto the texture and scraping it off.

It wasn’t coming off without taking the drywall with it.

When I came to the house to check everything out, the first thing that noticed was that the ceilings were badly mangled with paper torn from the gypsum boards.  I told my operations manager, “Dude, Luis and the guys are going to have a long with this.”

After finding the guys through the maze of plastic sheeting, I was greeted with “This stuff doesn’t want to come off, man.”

My project manager, Luis, is as good of a PM there is and an excellent problem solver.  Had already Googled “how to take down ceiling texture” because this was worse than anything we had encountered in our 8 years working together.  He learned that by adding fabric softener to the water, it helps soften the texture compound.

It helped, but not enough.  After 2 days of fighting with this texture, Luis had enough and brought in the heavy artillery.  He went to Sunbelt and rented a commercial drywall sander with a vacuum attachment.  These Porter Cable drywall sanders is what I used to sell to huge drywall outfits to finish hotels and casinos in my days at Sherwin Williams.  My clients used these machines during the construction of places like Atlantis in Bahamas, The Wynn in Vegas, The W and Terminus in Atlanta.

We were using this on a 2500 square foot house.

A month ago, I would have told you using a commercial drywall sander for stipple texture removal was overkill.  Now, I have a new trick up my sleeve.  For less than $100/day, I can outfit my guys with a machine that does 4 hours of work in 20 minutes.

Once we got the ceilings smooth, we painted them and had another happy client.

Although this story has a happy ending, it isn’t all rosy sunshine.  There is no easy short cut to removing textures from walls and ceilings.  It is hard and labor intensive.  You have to have a strong neck to look up at a ceiling and work from a ladder above you head for 5+ days.

If popcorn ceiling texture removal and stipple texture ceiling smoothing doesn’t sound like something fun that you want to do during your free time, call the pros at GreenWave Solutions to do it.

I promise it will be worth money.

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We also offer residential and commercial drywall contracting, wood flooring, and many other home improvement and remodeling services.

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Product Review: ProMar 200 Waterborne Alkyd

Water based Alkyd?

That’s impossible, isn’t it?  Apparently not.  Sherwin Williams released its line of water based alkyds about a year ago and they are pretty amazing.

Based upon my chemistry background, I’m pretty sure that these products are not true alkyds.  I deduce this from the fact that water is both the solvent and reducer for these products.  I think that the moniker “water based alkyd” means “alkyd performance from a waterborne coating.”

We have used both the ProMar 200 and ProClassic water based alkyds.  I am reviewing the ProMar line because my painters reported better results from it.

Inside the can…

Upon opening the can of ProMar 200 wb alkyd, you will notice a smooth textured coating and a mild, sweet smell – like banana Laffy Taffy.  Because we have only been using this product on trim, we have not poured it into a roller pan.  We have either brushed or sprayed it from buckets.

Application characteristics…

ProMar 200 WB alkyd has a thin body.  It loads into your brush very nicely.  It releases smoothly and evenly.  For a thin bodies coating it covers well.

Another advantage of this coating is its adhesion.  ProMar 200 WB alkyd can be applied onto minimally prepared oil paints without needing a primer.  You should give the existing oil some profile by either scuff sanding or liquid deglosser.

The one pitfall that I saw was the urge to apply it too heavy or over working it.  It levels extremely well for an acrylic coating.  In order to avoid any runs or brush marks, apply it at a normal thickness and go.  The paint does the rest.

The finish…

The cured finish of ProMar 200 WB alkyd it what makes this coating so impressive.  It dries to a smooth, hard block resistance finish like an alkyd.

The Verdict…

I love ProMar 200 WB alkyd.  For the price, it’s top of its class.  It’s application, performance and finish are all comparable to a true alkyd, without the smell, slow dry time and messy clean up.  I recommend this for trim, doors, windows and cabinets.  (Note:  This product is for interior use only).

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Roswell – Spring Painting Special

We are finally getting warmer weather, budding trees and blooming flowers!

GreenWave Solutions is kicking Spring off with a positive attitude and would like to spread the good vibes by offering a painting special to all residents and businesses in Roswell.  We are taking 15% off on all interior and exterior painting, deck cleaning and staining, pressure washing, drywall repairs, siding replacement, wallpaper removal, rotten wood replacement, floor refinishing, and more.

The fresh air and beautiful weather puts everyone in a good mood so why not make your house feel the same way with a fresh coat of paint or a new look?  Spring is the best time of year to get everything freshened up and GreenWave Solutions is here to help.

To make everyone happy with a wonderful Spring mood we are offering this special to all residents of metro Atlanta.

GreenWave Solutions is proud to serve the greater Atlanta area including Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead, Chamblee, Decatur, Doraville, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Marietta, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Vinings and more.

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