“We have a team that specializes in sport courts, parking lots, and parking garages.”
problems we see is when these companies skip out on two- by-fours for backing or they have used leftover, mismatched materials from other job sites – you know, they’re just not doing what they said they were going to do. They are cutting the corners, and the clients didn’t know any better.” In the 10 years since Amy and Dave moved to Chilliwack to start Master Painting and Renovations in the nascence of BC’s real estate boom they have noticed a number of trends amongst their competitors but none as pervasive as a “definite lack of training in key jobsite positions,” he explained. “The lack of apprenticeship programs in BC is a big issue, too. We have an apprenticeship program at Master Painting and Renovations where junior-level workers work beside a master for two – or even three years in some positions – before they go out on their own. So they learn from the ground up: they learn to start filling and caulking baseboard and trim, for example, and then they can work on houses that need primer coats and so on. But what really sets us apart from our competitors is that each individual trade position at Master Painting and Renovations is filled by an individual craftsman. So, our electrician only does the electric; our tile setter only does the tiles; the plumber, he’s a plumber; the painters do the painting; the drywaller does the drywall. We don’t have one guy running around doing drywall, tiling, carpentry, pulling electrical, doing a halfway job on the plumbing. Every single person is a craftsman in
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JANUARY 2019
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