#49 Zach Kenney owner of ZK painting joins the guys
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🗓️ 26 December 2018
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Zach shares his story about how and why he focuses on the high-end painting market. He talks about the difficulty of saying no and shares the proof to his success.
Where to find our guest:
Zach Kenney @zkpainting on Instagram
Where to find our Hosts:
Nick Schiffer @nsbuilders on Instagram and YouTube
Tyler Grace @TRGHomeconcepts on Instagram
John Hourihan @heresjohnnyh & @vintagebuilders on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | We have |
| 0:02.0 | we have zak k painting out of Rhode Island on the podcast this week. |
| 0:04.0 | We're going to talk about paint, a little paint talk. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to talk about his business, |
| 0:10.0 | but also where he started in this business |
| 0:12.0 | and how he really started focusing on the higher quality market and what he's done to kind of corner himself into that niche. We've just gone to air machines on all our job sites and negative air in the space that we're |
| 0:32.0 | working so it could smell as bad as you want but and negative air in the space that we're working. |
| 0:32.8 | So it could smell as bad as you want, |
| 0:34.7 | but if all of the air is being filtered through charcoal filters |
| 0:39.3 | and its negative space, the client never smells it. |
| 0:43.0 | So... |
| 0:44.0 | But during the current process, does that mean that it's not going to emit any VOCs? |
| 0:49.2 | It's like, it's like close self home. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, we're not there for 24 hours if the reaction happens, but it's still in the house. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, so we, I mean, some of them we run it for five days straight afterwards. |
| 1:01.7 | For, I've had a couple of particular clients where we just run it 24-7. |
| 1:06.2 | The last client was pregnant and we painted her first floor and we just, the entire house, |
| 1:12.3 | the entire project was being filtered all the air from upstairs down and out for six days straight. |
| 1:20.0 | And she never smelled fumes at all. |
| 1:23.0 | That's awesome. |
| 1:25.0 | I just I just won the client that when they I don't do negative air because it's the whole house for the primer, |
| 1:30.0 | but it's the fact that hey, you, I pride myself when you're not smelling anything |
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