Rain, rain go away. I still gotta paint today!
For most paint contractors, weather plays a huge part in what they can get done.
This time of year our focus is on exteriors and we need all the dry weather we can get. All it takes is several days of bad weather to screw up the schedule and make customers angry.
In the past, we relied on the morning weatherperson, how the sky looked, roll of the dice and any other method that we could think of to decide if we were working that day. Some days you take a chance and knock off early because it starts to look gloomy. Who wants to fix a paint job because of bad weather?
With today's proliferation of smart phones it is no longer necessary to pack it up early because it looks like it might rain. You can tap into real time weather information maximized for your location. I use an app called my-cast, but there are several options. I just enter a zip code and download barometric pressure, Doppler radar maps, and more so we can make decisions based on real time info, instead of a best guess. It has kept us on the job more which translates into more work getting done.
What do you use, if anything to base weather related decisions on?
It's raining here in Denver to...!
ReplyDeleteLooks like rain most of the week here.
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