Five Star Painting Franchise

When kids live in a home, the walls are bound to get a few marks and scuffs. Accidents and experiments happen. Parents, take a deep breath. You may not prevent kids from spoiling your furniture, but you can likely repair the damage.

Save Left-Over Paint, Wallpaper, and Carpeting

When removing marks from the walls, some come off fine and others will remove the paint or wallpaper with it. In cases like these, parents will be grateful that they saved those cans of left-over paint or extra rolls of wallpaper. One important tip parents will want to remember when painting over a stain is to first use a primer. This will prevent the mark from bleeding through the new coat.

When Repainting, Go With Glossy

If you don’t have left-over paint and the store can’t match a paint chip to do a touch up, you’ll need to find a creative way to hide it the stain, or think about repainting the room. One silver lining to this dark cloud might be in nipping future marks in the bud. Instead of redecorating with more wallpaper or repainting with matte or satin, parents can try painting with a high-gloss finish. They’ll love the way marks, food, and whatever else their kids dish out next time wipes away with cleaner and a wet cloth.

Remodeling? Paint your walls with oil paint, a surface from which crayon can be easily cleaned. For new art supplies, go with soap-based crayons. To rid ink stains from the walls, wipe ink marks with bleach.

Consider painting a large area of your child’s bedroom with chalkboard paint. This gives children a big creative space where they won’t get into trouble when drawing on the walls. It turns out really cute too!

How to Remove Crayon from the Walls

To remove crayon from painted walls and wallpaper that you can scrub, put baking soda on crayon stains and scrubbing them clean with a wet toothbrush, as well as mixing dishwasher detergent and water and rubbing the solution with a damp sponge. Another great way is to put a blow dryer on it to melt the wax and remove with a damp washcloth.

Only allow young children to use washable art materials, such as markers, tempera and watercolor paint. It will save you a lot of headaches.

If you need help taking care of this problem, give Five Star Painting a call and we can help you out 1-866-965-7827.

Franchising World March 2010

As the International Franchise Association celebrates its 50th birthday this year, it has, among others, a rewarding achievement: enabling military veterans to attain their goal of small-business ownership. IFA’s Veterans Transition Franchise Initiative has helped more than 1,500 veterans acquire small-business franchise establishments through discounts and other financial incentives.

The program, known as VetFran, which is designed to lower the up-front costs of buying a franchise, has increased its popularity as nearly 400 IFA-member companies have signed on to participate. The franchises determine the financial incentives that fit their system and voluntarily agree to offer honorably-discharged veterans a better deal than is offered to otherwise qualified investors. A discount of the initial fee is typical, but each company is free to design the financial incentive that it feels will best serve veterans’ needs. VetFran is completely voluntary and receives no government funding.

VetFran has been recognized by the American Society of Association Executives with its Award of Excellence and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Center for Veterans Enterprise naming it a “Champion of Veterans Enterprise.”

Company profiles, as well as the financial incentives they offer to veterans, can be viewed at www.franchise.org under “Franchises or Veterans.” Find Five Star Painting’s membership here.

If you have any questions about opening up a Five Star Painting franchise, feel free to call us at 1-866-965-STAR and find out what discounts we offer with the VetFran program.