Story · 11:45
// THE QUOTE
“i hate pricing that stuff by the way it's like you never get the metrocards right”
— Guillaume Tremblay · GT Painting Inc.
Concrete war story — a $500-a-yard wall vinyl made a tiny powder room cost over $5,000 — vivid, specific, and self-contained.
Full episode at 11:45Why Painters Are the Banks of Construction — and Why No One in Atlantic Canada Wants to Fix It | GT Painting ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Scope creep onto finishing trades (caulking, patching, repairing other-trade damage) has increased over decades while prices have decreased — sub-trades must price a damage allowance into every bid or absorb the loss.
“the expectation that the painters will fix it the painters will fix it and it's the trickle-down effect”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Workforce crisis: no apprenticeship, no accreditation, chronic retention failure
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SOURCE: 11:45 of Why Painters Are the Banks of Construction — and Why No One in Atlantic Canada Wants to Fix It | GT Painting