What You Should Know About Pets and Your Painting Project

02 Jul What You Should Know About Pets and Your Painting Project

Let’s talk about pets and painting! We don’t mean paintings of your beloved pet, but their role during a painting project in your home. This is important because many of our clients are pet owners. However, pets roaming around during a project can pose safety risks for our crews and potentially damage the work. Equally important, having a crew of strangers working in their space could be stressful for any animal.

Here are some key points to know before we start your project:

– We prefer not to be responsible for containing or removing pets from the work area. As a pet owner, you know the best ways to manage and handle them.
– Pets can’t distinguish wet walls from dry ones. The last thing we want is for a pet to rub against wet paint and transfer it elsewhere.
Pets and pet hair can get into paint cans and trays and onto wet walls and our brushes.
– Pets can step into paint trays and run through the house, spreading paint on floors, rugs, or furniture. While we cover furniture in the rooms we work in, we don’t cover furniture in other rooms.
– Dogs might mark their territory on a drop cloth – or painter!
– Pets can get out of the house as we carry equipment and materials in and out.
– Some materials we use might be hazardous if ingested by pets.

We love pets, and many of us are pet owners. As much as we’d love to hang out with your pet while we work, having them around isn’t practical for our listed reasons.

If you have questions, please contact us. We are one of Northern Virginia’s most reputable painting contractors, and your pet’s safety is important to us.

Mike Katounas