Anyone engaging Charlie Yan please keep a tight check on his workers. Overall his service is not bad but from experience, some of his workers take short cut sometimes e.g. I felt they diluted the paint too much so coating wise is not that great. I guess diluted paint is easier and faster to work with and these people want to finish quickly so that they can move on to the next job. Also, if you don't supervise closely, some (not all of them) will say already done 2 coating but in fact did only one. I had one large can of ICI paint left over and not even opened yet..they only used 3 cans to paint the whole 900+ sqft condo. Charlie had told me to buy 4. I had pmed another of Charlie's customer to ask about service quality but that guy didn't reply me until my painting job was over. He too told me he wasn't satisfied but didn't state why.

However, i do commend them for other quality e.g. their painting is quite neat, paint are not dripping on floor here and there when they do work, workers are punctual to work and friendly.

This post has been edited by honkkydorry: Sep 27 2014, 06:14 PM

Must paint be mixed with water first before painting?

Can I say I don't want water mixed with paint as I prefer thicker coating?? I have painted 1-wall before without mixing water and the wall paint quality was still very good after 3 years so I assume it will last longer. In contrast, when I had my whole apt repainted, the workers mixed paint with water and I find the coating thin despite 2 times painting. When I asked the painters, they said must mix with water.