News from John Thomas Painting

Balboa Boulevard, Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California – 4

By John Thomas Painting Staff | November 27, 2021

Another home in the same Balboa neighborhood where we’ve done so much work in the past, this home is just down the street from this home above on G Street. This home required the application of a bleach product to remove mildew from the exterior walls which is then power washed off in preparation for…

Balboa Boulevard, Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California

By John Thomas Painting Staff | November 27, 2021

This home on the Balboa Peninsula is literally right around the corner from these two homes here and here. The windows needed extensive repair before painting, we used Bondo to fill cracks, holes and termite damage. The windows themselves were re-glazed with new glazing material after the old material was cut out. The fence involved…

Balboa Blvd, Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California –

By John Thomas Painting Staff | November 27, 2021

This one is actually right next door to this home which we also painted but we actually painted this house first. While working on it we met the homeowner of the place next door and he hired Thomas Painting Contractors to paint his summer rental home as well. Complete interior and exterior paint job including…

Exterior Painting on Craftsman Style Home in Newport Beach – Larkins St.

By John Thomas Painting Staff | October 1, 2021

This Craftsman-style home was remodeled inside and out about 4 years ago but we painted only the outside just recently. As you can see the results are beautiful, especially the front door which, though hard to make out, is a contrasting deep red. We sanded the entire house as is our normal procedure to maximize…

Huntington Beach House Repaint

By John Thomas Painting Staff | January 18, 2021

The owner was a landscape architect and wanted to handle the prep work himself. He power-washed the exterior and hired us to paint the entire exterior. We did extensive covering of hardscape putting plastic over the stone walkways, wainscoting, stone accents, plants and trees. We also carefully masked the nicely finished trim with plastic and…

September 2015 Tip – Protecting carpets while painting

By John Thomas Painting Staff | September 1, 2015

PROTECTING CARPETS WHILE PAINTING Here’s how it always goes for me. I am painting a wall in a room with carpet. If I get lazy and Just put my drop doth up to the edge of the wall, while I’m painting and moving about the drop cloth gets pulled back exposing carpet. That’s exactly where…

Employee Development Pays Longterm Dividends

By John Thomas Painting Staff | July 28, 2014

I have had the pleasure of working with a great group of guys over the years. I have found that treating people fairly helps you develop a stable and capable crew that you can depend on. Every once in a while I’ll get something like this that is just above and beyond and all I…

Commercial Painting: the Kimberly Clark Corporation Warehouse

By John Thomas Painting Staff | July 3, 2014

This job started with a request to repaint the guard shack at the front of their facility. The surface was covered with things that had to be worked and painted around including truck traffic. Our success on that project lead them to give us the other 2 interior projects dealing with the yellow curbs and…

Painting Tips: The latest painting tips courtesy of John Thomas Painting

By John Thomas Painting Staff | June 19, 2014

August 2013 Painting Tips – SUPER QUICK PRIMER

By John Thomas Painting Staff | August 1, 2013

My crew and I are never without a few cans of Kilz spray primer. This Stuff is great for small last minute jobs. It holds back stains, water marks, marker and tannin stains and it dries quickly. Kilz lets you patch a hole, texture that patch, prime and paint it all in a day Plus…