Bay Area Painting Contractor

GSP Painting Incorporated is a fully licensed and insured Painting Contractor serving the California Bay Area. We were founded in 1978 with the goal of providing excellent service at affordable prices.

Trust in the Community: GSP Painting has been building its reputation in the California Bay Area as a Quality Painting Contractor for the past 34 years .  Feel free to ask your friends and neighbors about us, visit their homes, walk around your community… you will see for yourself that our experience is shown through the quality of our work.

Affordable Prices: With over 34 years of experience behind us. We have been able to streamline the process of providing Excellent Customer Service and keeping costs low at the same time.

Licensing: We are fully licensed by the State of California. By being licensed we have already passed rigid testing as required by the state. Unlicensed contractors are notorious for collecting money from customers and not providing the services they promise.

Insurance: We have multiple types of insurances to protect property owners from potential problems. Our general liability insurance alone protects all the properties we service for up to 2 million dollars per property.

Background Checks: All of our employees have had thorough background checks throughout their employment with us. Most roofing contractors do not bother with this step. GSP Painting has a policy of only hiring the best and most experienced people available.

Certified Workers: All of our crew members have had extensive training with regard to identifying dangerous toxins such as lead, mold and asbestos. They have also been trained on proper safety procedures to protect you and your family from these dangerous items.

By hiring GSP Painting for your next project, you can save yourself from some of the horror stories you may have heard from your family and friends about hiring unlicensed painting contractors.

Additional information on hiring a professional painting contractor.

The following article details what to look for before hiring a painting contractor. This information  will help you in the selection of a painting contractor. Furthermore it will also provide necessary information to the quality of the painting contractor, as related to workmanship, timeliness and materials.

The intent of this article is to provide property owners with guidelines on how to properly qualify a house painter. It is critical for the property owner to hire the best available house painter to do the work and then provide the tools for the house painter to do the job right with the highest possible level of quality.

Property owners are often driven by price, not capability, in their search for a painting contractor. This approach encourages an unqualified residential painter to submit unrealistically low bids for jobs that are beyond their technical capabilities.  Frequently, the owner is the one to suffer through protracted project schedules, poor workmanship and the coating system's failure or reduced service life.

Whenever possible, the surface preparation and painting portion of a job should be given to a paint company specifically qualified to meet the varied aspects of the owner's scope of work. Two key areas for review are suitable/successful experience and a technical capability for the type of work or coating system specified.

Although some homeowners do their own exterior painting, many others hire a professional house painter to do the work. If you are one of them, don't leave the selection of a painting contractor to chance. After all, your exterior paint job is important protection for the enormous investment you have in your home.

Ask about the materials they plan to use. Will the painting contractor allow you to specify the paint you prefer? More importantly, does the paint company recommend top quality paint? Top quality acrylic latex exterior paint can last for up to 10 years compared to only three or four years for ordinary paint, so you should favor the residential painter who uses the highest quality materials.

Former customers are an excellent source of information about professional painters. Call these individuals and ask if they were pleased with the work of that painting contractor. A reliable house painter will usually guarantee that the paint will not peel, chip, blister or chalk excessively for at least one year. Have the company agree that if any of these conditions occur, the problems will be corrected free of charge.

You and your painting contractor should both sign a written contract that spells out important details. At a minimum, it should include specifics on surface preparation, the exact paint to be applied, and payment terms for the house painters.

We hope this information will help you select a painting contractor that will perform the repairs to your home in a professional manner.