Bevan Cochrane
Owner/Operator onsitePainters and decorators in Christchurch. The person who takes the first phone call is the person on the ladder.
- Owner operated
- Christchurch
- Part of the Parthenon family
You will know who is in your house.
Bevan Cochrane, who owns it, and Jordon McGregor, who is qualified. Named people rather than a van full of strangers, and the owner is the one you meet first.
Most of what people fear about having a house painted is not the finish. It is the disruption: a painter in the hallway at seven, the good rug, the dog getting out, and nobody to ask.
You know the faces by the end of the first day, nobody appears halfway through, and there is one person to raise anything with.
The people on your job are people you know by name.
Owner/Operator
Bevan Cochrane, on the tools
Qualified Painter
Jordon McGregor, alongside him
Four questions to ask any painter.
Ask these four and listen to who the answer keeps pointing at. Where the owner is on the tools it is the same person every time.
Who quoted it
And who paints itWhere one person prices a job and another paints it, nothing carries back from the ladder to the number. Here it is one person throughout.
Who is in the house
The people you have metBevan Cochrane and Jordon McGregor, and you will have met them before anything starts. Not a subcontractor you were never told about, and not a different painter because Wednesday ran over.
Who decides
When it is hardEvery job reaches a point where a painter chooses between doing it properly and getting off site. When that painter owns the business, the choice is easier to predict.
Who you ring
If it is not rightWhat matters is how far a complaint travels before it reaches the person who was in the room. Here that is one phone call, and he answers it.
Four things that do not change.
Not a guarantee and not a badge. Four specifics you can hold us to.
Starting
- Usually between seven thirty and eight, and it moves if that is too early for the house.
Finishing each day
- Put back, not just tidied.
Signing off
- A walk round together, in daylight, with the lights off.
Afterwards
- The leftover paint labelled with the room it belongs to.
Ask a builder, not a painter.
The opinion worth having belongs to a builder whose own jobs are judged on it, who could use any painter he liked, and who has seen the work with the walls open.
“He's one of the best painters I've seen. Perfection. Takes proper care.”
Daniel Fridd, Parthenon Construction
Part of the Parthenon family.
The name is shared, and so is the way of working. What is not shared is a record: Parthenon Construction builds houses and this business paints them.
Work comes across from the builders there, so we paint in front of people who build for a living.
A harder inspection than a homeowner can run, because a builder is on site while everything is open and every shortcut visible.
What it does not mean is that somebody else's crew turns up at your house, or that another company's track record belongs here. That record is Parthenon Construction's and it is theirs to talk about. The work at your address is done by Bevan Cochrane and Jordon McGregor.
The reputation
One name, two records
What comes across
Repair work, through the builders
Who comes to your house
Bevan and Jordon, the crew
The questions about the people.
The rest of it is about paint. These are the ones about who is holding the brush.
Will Bevan be on my job, or does he just quote it?
On it. Quoting it, washing and filling it, cutting in the edges by hand, and there on the last morning when you look it over. If he cannot be on it start to finish, he says so.
Do I deal with one person or several?
One. The same person quotes it, books it, does it and answers the phone afterwards. No office in between, no job number, and nobody who has to go away and find out what happened.
What does owner-operator actually mean here?
His own printed job title, off his own business card. Here it is literal: the owner is the one on the ladder.
How is this connected to Parthenon Construction?
Repair work reaches this business through the builders at Parthenon Construction, which is why an insurance job is familiar territory rather than an exception. And a builder who has watched this painting done on his own sites will say what he thinks of it, which he has. Beyond the name, the two are judged on their own work.
Can I meet whoever is doing the work before I commit?
That is what the site visit is. We look at the job before a number exists, and the people who come are the people who would paint it. You decide before agreeing to anything.
What is Jordon's part in it?
He is a qualified painter and the other pair of hands, not an apprentice fetching things. On a house of any size he and Bevan work it together, which is how the standard holds.
Meet him before you decide.
We look at the job, and while that happens you work out whether you want us in your house.
- 022 615 5816
Bevan, direct
- bevan@prd.kiwi
Email
Christchurch
Where we work