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My painter is a big pain in the $%^. There is no way I'd tip that mother&^&*(). Oh wait the painter is me, he is awesome. Ut Oh I am talking to myself again I think I have to go back to counseling. No I'm not, yes you are...........
I always have tipped my painters for the last 35 years for many paint jobs. I have been a auto mechanic for over 40 years and have received many tips myself for a job done to the customers satisfaction.
Mark
Yes I slipped him 100 twice he did all the sanding.
There was pressure between him and the body shop owner .
He went out of his way to sand and make sure the lines were correct and perfect the owner did the spraying and I slipped him 100 .
This this at different times separately . Each didn't know about the tip between them .Owner thought the he was taking too long but he was trying to get it right.
If i could find one that would actually finish the job maybe.
Bunch of double talking thieves if you ask me.
Its too bad but true the good painters are find to find .
I has seen it time again had 5 cars painted seems most of them weird or had issues that ended up with some kind of drama while taking more money .
Don't get me wrong some of them are great but hard to find.
In the 51 years in the body shop business I have received only one tip. That was from a plumber that after quoting him a price to install two windows in his service truck, he said
"Now that we have set the price, if you get me out of here in ten minutes I will give you $5.00"
We had him out in 9!
(Although we do have a customer that owns a bakery and his incentive plan is to give us plenty of pastry with each estimate.)
I dunno - had a casual friend paint his El Camino "under the stars" in Florida humidity and with love bugs flitting around. I went all over the paint job. Freakin' outstanding and blemish free.
He's either lucky or a genius with a paint sprayer - maybe both....
PAINTER = NO IDEA of what promptness is. Usually months late and over estimate. Doesn't mean the job was not properly done or that it didn't require as much time as it took to deliver a quality product.
Quality painting is a talent that not everyone possesses.
But race car paint is 50/50....has to look good at 50 feet/50mph.
Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink
I dunno - had a casual friend paint his El Camino "under the stars" in Florida humidity and with love bugs flitting around. I went all over the paint job. Freakin' outstanding and blemish free.
He's either lucky or a genius with a paint sprayer - maybe both....
IN a hurry to get it to a race, we painted it at night under a couple of fluorescent lights in a junkyard along Military Trail when it was nearly all swamp. We had a big fan blowing towards to to get the bugs away and I'd pick bugs out that made it anyway.
A few years later, we painted it in the parking lot of my warehouse at 6:30 on a Sunday morning to avoid the code inspection guys since there was no room inside to paint it.
That would be like tipping the mechanic at your dealership after they charged book rates, did the job in half the time, and charged you $150 hr labor.
