Hiring a painting contractor... making sense of the process

Painting, it’s an easy DIY, so why bother to hire a contractor for the job? You may lack the time, or be working with a hard-to-paint space with high ceilings and lots of architectural details. Maybe you’ve got an old place where there may be lead paint to deal with. Or maybe you’re not the DIY type. There are plenty of reasons to call in the pros. No matter what your reasons, it’s important to get apples-to-apples estimates from multiple contractors, and that’s not always easy to do. When you’r