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Painter glazier the trade
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 At the time of a building site of restoration or construction, the house painter is that which brings the final key to the building site, the house painter equips walls and ceilings.
Passed main in the art of the completions, it can also advise the customers in their choices of decoration, this trade requires rigour and care.
Its missions:
That it intervenes on a building site or takes part in renovation works, the house painter brings to the buildings the final key by equipping the frontages, the walls and the ceilings.
Installation and preparation:
He assembles his scaffolding, installs his tables with trestles to pose tools there and materials, deploys covers to protect furniture and the fitted carpet.
Then begin a long preparatory work of the support. It is necessary to take off the old wallpaper, to pickle old paintings, to clog the cracks, to sandpaper, coat…
Once surfaces are perfectly smooth, the coating or papers will be applied.
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Competences of the painter:
Application of paintings and varnishes, insulation, sealing… Competences of the house painter are varied.
To know materials and to control the techniques are not however enough: it is also necessary to have the eye and the know-how of an artist for using the colors well, harmonizing the various nuances and to create an atmosphere.
The direction of the adaptation:
General-purpose, it adapts to any type of building site and is interested in the various coatings used in the building: decorative paintings, but also stuck fitteds carpet, vinyl coatings, cork plates…
Care and rigour:
Equipped with a physical good condition, it shows much patience, meticulousness, skill and care in its work.
On the building site, it respects the security instructions and handles with precaution the tools and the products. Perched sometimes in height, it should not be prone to the giddiness.
The painter will be able to also exert other trades in relation to his,
The layer of coatings equips grounds, walls and ceilings.
The glazier-miroitier finds his place in the fitting of stores, halls of reception and the interior decoration of the habitat.
He installs windows, mirrors and picture windows.
The painter-glazier-moquettiste very often works to renovate old surfaces, which they are interior or external.
He must then find the techniques specific to a given time and to sometimes even reconstitute them exactly to repair without causing new damage.
• Direction of the decoration and the harmony of the colors
• Taste of the drawing and calculation
• Care and precision
• Safety of the hand and the eye
• Good contact and taste of the commercial relations
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 The choice of the tools:
Between its hands, the brushes succeed the rollers, the brushes with the guns: at every moment, the painter must find the tool best adapted to work to realize.
He must choose between paintings (matt or glossed), the varnishes… Equipped with an artistic sensitivity, the painter can moult himself as a decorator, sometimes trying to imitate wood or the marble, sometimes to obtain an effect in trompe-l'oeil.
Places of intervention:
Houses, public places, offices, stores or factories… The building sites change, the customers too.
A house painter must be sufficiently general-purpose to be able to propose an global offer, which it will then adapt according to particular needs.
Paintings, parquet floors and panes
More and more often, this professional of painting is solicited to pose other types of coatings: wallpaper, floor covering, parquet floors… and even of the panes!
Technological developments
The techniques and materials are in constant evolution. New decorative paintings make it possible to obtain effects of matter (spangles, droplets…) or of surfaces patinated, spatulées, ruffled, sponged…
A team work:
Under the authority of a foreman, the house painter only works or in collaboration with the other workmen of building site (the electrician, the plumber, etc).
He exerts his talents inside buildings or outside.
Professional life:
Whatever its education level, a young person will have hardly evil to find an use of painter. It is, of course, in the cities which opportunities are most numerous.
And at SME, largely majority in the sector of the building. The companies seek professionals general-purpose, able to complete various work: insulation, decorative painting…
To become site foreman:
The holders of a vat pro can ambitionner become site foremen, to even settle on their account, if they have concepts of management and accountancy.
Other requirements to be able to evolve/move: to have experience, will and the direction of the responsibilities.
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