The Painters Institute

Australia's leading painting contractors, including G.Weyers Painting Service, National Painting Group, Murphy Brothers Painting Services, Revive Painting and Maintenance, and Protecta Roof Painting Services recently got trained and certified to apply the world's first bushfire resistant paint. This training prepares painting contractors to apply paints that prevent houses from burning down during bushfire events. Fire Coat Intumescent Coatings Course Flame Security International

Painting the Eiffel Tower by the numbers:

33 tons of paint to take off
66 tons of new paint for the summer Olympics
Requires 50 full time painters.
An area the size of 35 soccer fields

Eiffel Tower Paint Jobs: A Colorful History and Its New Shade | Eiffel Tower Tour The Eiffel Tower has had lots of paint jobs over the years. The next Eiffel Tower color (for the Paris Summer Olympics) was chosen by Gustave Eiffel himself!

Only 7 weeks before the Painting and Decorating 'Olympics' kick off in France. The world's best young painters and decorators will go head to head to decide the gold, silver and bronze at the International WorldSkills competition.

Painting and Decorating | WorldSkills Using paint, decorative coatings, wallpaper, gilding, and sign writing both indoors and outdoors in a wide variety of working environments.

Congratulations to Chloe Halliwell, who recently won South East Queensland Apprentice of the Year at the Skills for Queensland State Training Awards. Chloe was trained by Painters Institute trainer Paul Jones from Gimbal Training host employer Finesse Painting, and her employer Ed Kea from OSMAC Apprenticeships. For a mature age painting apprentice to win this award is an outstanding achievement, and a credit to her commitment to the trade. 🍾

We're putting the 'decorating' back into 'painting and decorating' training. Even experienced painters who do RPL assessment with us are given the opportunity to do gap training and learn new skills to grow their business.

It's NAIDOC week, and to celebrate we're featuring the first Aboriginal-owned and operated paint company in Australia. Jiga Jiga Paint is a first-of-its-kind national Supply Nation registered Indigenous brand supplying APAS-certified high-performance architectural and decorative paint products across Australia designed for use by professional applicators and home renovators. In the spirit of reconciliation, the products are carefully selected and manufactured in partnership with Haymes Paint.

Jiga Jiga Paint was created by Bevan Mailman and Tom Hutcheson (former graduate of The Painters Institute), who have extensive combined experience in commercial painting and community economic development. Both men had a desire to develop a paint brand and range of colours that celebrated First Nations ancient cultures and traditions and created employment and business opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

Jiga Jiga Paint — Merging Ancient Traditions with Modern Innovation Jiga Jiga is the first Aboriginal-owned and operated paint company. We offer a range of high-performance, water-based paints suitable for professionals and home renovators.

Become a Certified Fire Coat Contractor.

The National Institute of Painting and Decorating is proud to launch a new course in Intumescent Coatings, in collaboration with Security International and Wall and Ceiling Institute. This new course has taken 6 months to develop and will provide training and nationally recognised qualifications for painters applying the ground-breaking new Fire Coat range of BAL-40 rated coatings. With climate change continuing to increase the risk of bushfires around the world, this training will prepare the painting industry to play their part in protecting buildings in bush-fire prone areas in Australia and the United States.

https://painters.edu.au/Training-Courses/Intumescent-Coatings.htm

We are pleased to announce that the National Painting and Decorating Institute have finalised a formal agreement to work collaboratively with Wall and Ceiling Institute.

This partnership will provide access to additional training facilities and funding for training painters across Australia, and improve collaboration for skill development between the plastering and painting trades.

Pictured are NPDI Managing Director Daniel Wurm, and Group CEO of WACI, Rob Lucas.

Need to get a Queensland Building and Construction Commission - QBCC licence? If you are already qualified you will need to complete a short business course. Our QBCC Painting Trade Contractor Course is the only course that has been created by painting contractors, for painters located in Queensland. Learn everything you need to know to run a business legally and professionally in Queensland.

QBCC Painting Business Management Course Queensland Building Construction Commission QBCC Painting Business Management Course for Licensing in QLD. BSBESB402

Today is World Corrosion Awareness Day, and to commemorate this day we're launching our new MSM30216 Certificate III in Surface Preparation and Coating course.

This course has taken 18 months to develop, and uses some of the most sophisticated e-learning technology to bring high quality training to any industrial blasting and coating work-site.

Now, employers can offer in-house traineeships, and high quality training in the treatment and prevention of corrosion without having to send employees to campuses located hundreds of kilometres away.

Using animation, video and interactive scenarios and projects we are bringing the subject of corrosion alive, to help trades workers understand the technical principles behind corrosion mitigation, surface preparation and industrial protective coatings. No more boring lecturers, no more classrooms, no more pens, paperwork or death by Powerpoint presentations. Just really awesome training for the 21st century, available anywhere, anytime.

Get an education, not just a certificate.

https://painters.edu.au/Training-Courses/MSM30216-Certificate-III-in-Surface-Preparation-and-Coating-Application.htm

Wattyl

The Painters Institute would like to thank Wattyl for sponsoring our training for 10 years. Together we've trained over 1500 painting apprentices and helped over 700 painters get the training they need to become professional, qualified and to grow their businesses!

An amateur painter blames the paint.

A professional reads the Technical Data Sheet and follows the standards.

What does the next 24 months look like for growth in the Australian painting industry? We take a look at economic drivers and key statistics to forecast key growth areas and opportunities for employment.

Forecasting Growth in the Australian Painting Industry: A 24-Month Outlook This report aims to forecast the growth of the Australian painting industry over the next 24 months, focusing on sectors including residential repaints, new infrastructure projects, new housing, and maintenance of commercial buildings

Great to meet the team at Crowies Paints the Wattyl Trade Paint Centre in Shepparton.

Warm tones are back and grey is out for 2024!' says Lina Galvao co-founder of Curated Nest. 'This has been a gradual transition over past few years. We're seeing lots of "comforting" warm neutrals (the color of the year for 4 major paint companies are warm neutrals) take the design world by storm. Warmer and darker woods, richer brown tones, warm greens continue, soft shades of pink and yellow (sophisticated pastels).'

These are the key paint trends for 2024, according to designers Redefine the way you use paint and color at home and explore the very latest paint trends for 2024

All trades, including painting, are increasingly becoming more and more specialised, with painting companies focusing on technical niche markets. For example, many painting companies only ever do new construction, while others focus on industrial coatings or building maintenance. Very few ever do heritage restoration. This trend can be seen across the construction industry, to the point where some trades have decided to adapt training to reflect the increasing specialisations.

Reimagining Training for Painters and Decorators What would the painting qualification look like if we brought it into the 21st century? How the trade is taught is very different to the reality of how people work in the industry

Our online campus will be open all through the festive season, because we know it's the only time many painters have to learn. Whether you're partying, spending time with family, or using the down time to brush up on your skills, have a safe and happy festive season!