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PQI Training

The Complete Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute
Contractor Training Program


The Paint Quality Institute offers a training program specifically designed for the apprentice or new professional painter. It includes an extensive trainers’ kit with materials to assist the instructor. In addition to a set of trainee’s materials (manual, color wheel, problem solver fan deck, CD), the kit contains:

Notes with tips on using the kit materials, and on activities to aid in the training process
Quality color 8" x 10" photo prints illustrating exterior color schemes, and selected paint failures
Sections of actual paint exposures illustrating mildew and weathered aluminum siding
Demo with 3 quality levels of interior paint
Materials to demonstrate latex binder film formation
Three videos covering the basics of paint; exterior paints and exterior surface preparation; and color and decorating
InfoSheets on selected topics; PQI Opportunity Sheets; paint glossary
75-question exam and answer sheet; acknowledgments for presentation to trainees who pass the exam

The manual (hard copy and CD versions) have these chapters:

Paint and its ingredients Application tools & techniques
Exterior surface preparation Painting safety
Interior surface preparation Contractor Q&A


Exterior paints, stains and clears
Interior paints, stains and clears
Additional information: Opportunity Sheets,
Professional Painter magazine, etc.


The trainee’s CD is designed for use on a PC. It contains the entire manual and study questions for each chapter, the PQI paint job cost calculator, a unique interactive color wheel, and PDFs of the PQI InfoSheet and Opportunity sheet series.

Price: The Contractor Training Program is available for a one-time corporate charge of US$1500, which covers the initial trainers’ kit. Additional kits are US$250 each; additional manuals for the trainees are US$50 each and additional CDs are US$20 each.

To purchase, please contact us at 215.641.7717.

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