NAPCO Blog

Everybody daydreams about being their own boss, creating their own schedule and taking vacations whenever they want. NAPCO can help you strengthen your skills so you can start and/or expand your own refinishing business and become your own boss, creating the life you’ve always wanted.

Effective November 2019, all methylene chloride products for consumer paint and coating removal were officially banned from the shelves. This is an initiative that NAPCO supports as the safety of refinishers and homeowners continue to remain one of our top priorities. NAPCO offers a range of eco-friendly, methylene chloride free products, including the On The Spot Gun Cleaner, a multi-purpose surface and gun cleaner, offering refinishers a safer alternative.

Now that 2020 is here, we’re looking at the trend predications that will define this year. NAPCO will help you stay on the cutting edge of design trends into 2020 with our refinishing capabilities in your kitchens and bathrooms.

This holiday season, we wanted to share the gift of training! We’re excited to release our 2020 class schedule of instruction that provides intensive, hands-on bathroom and kitchen refinishing training. Our popular monthly classes will share the skills to potentially increase your income this year by becoming a certified refinisher.

NAPCO’s Trade-Up program provide refinishers with the opportunity to replace any and all bathroom and kitchen refinishing competitor products, including cleaners, primers, coatings and additives, with a one-for-one free product exchange for NAPCO’s refinishing supplies.

NAPCO’s Sonic Strip solvent-based paint stripper has always been methylene chloride free and federally VOC compliant while proving to be just as effective as traditional paint strippers. We are glad NAPCO can offer Sonic Strip paint stripper to save refinisher’s time and money, as well as provide a safer experience for you, your customers and the environment.

Are you ready? Don’t worry, you can be! When friends and family come home for the holidays, make sure your privys are as pretty as the rest of your house with NAPCO bathroom and bathtub refinishing expertise.

Last month, we were lucky enough to attend the National Association for Business Resources luncheon in the Loop and were even more fortunate to be one of the winners of “Chicago’s 2019 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®”! Wow. We’re honored. And we’d add that while the company was on the receiving end of the award, we want to take the opportunity to applaud and thank our employees, who are most definitely the best and brightest. 

Knowing which product you need will help save you time and money while on the job. Since we released Piranha Prep last year, there have been some questions as to when to use Piranha Prep versus our long-standing PolyClean Tub & Tile Cleaner. See our recommendations for when to use each.