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12th Annual Top Job Awards!!!
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Enter your TOP JOB of 2008 for a chance to win a $10,000 Grand Prize!

Click here to download the Official Entry Form:

 

Plus, four first place prizes valued at more than $1,000:

  • Ultra Max II 490 Airless Sprayer from Graco!
  • Decorative painting supplies from Modern Masters!
  • Quality pasting machine from Advance Equipment!
  • A bushel of applicators from Purdy!

 

Submitted projects can be from any of four categories:

  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Decorative Painting
  • Paperhanging
 

 

Winners will be announced and profiled early in 2009.
Honorable Mention TOP JOBS will be profiled throughout the year.

 

Your read the TOP JOB profiles in every issue. Surely you have a job that stacks up. Send it in!

  1. Photos - Before the job, during the job, after the job. We want to see work in progress. You cannot send us too many photos.
  2. Job Description - Give us a detailed typed account of the job from beginning to end including prep work, paint brands, unexpected surprises, quirky customer stories, ect. Let it flow - you won't bore us.
  3. Entry Form - Fill it out, and send it in by Nov 15, 2008.

 

Photo Tips:
Photographs are very important to your entry. We must be able to see your work, so take lots of photos and follow these tips:

  • Take broad shots before, during, and after the job
  • Take close-ups of detail work - prep and intricate color schemes.
  • DO NOT send photos that reveal safety hazards
  • Digital photos on a CD are preferred, but high quality snapshots are acceptable.

Entry Deadline: Nov, 15, 2008

Send Entries To: APC TOP JOB Awards, 105 Parma Rd., Chestertown, MD 21620

Questions: Click here to email your questions.

Official Rules

To enter, follow the directions on this page. Eligible jobs must have been completed in 2008 by the painting contractor submitting the entry. Sub-contracted work is prohibited. Entrants must be contractors engaged in architectural or industrial painting - not full-time decorators, interior designers or builders. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age. All entries must include a signed Official Entry Form. Winners will be selected by the staff of American Painting Contractor (APC), whose decisions are final. Entries and photographs become the property of APC, and are not returnable. The winners will be notified by Feb. 15, 2009. No prize substitution allowed. Applicable taxes are the responsibility of the winners. Employees of Douglas Publications LLC, Zinsser Co., Inc., Advance Equipment, Graco, Modern Masters and Purdy, their agents, affiliates, and subsidiaries, and their immediate families are ineligible. This contest is subject to U.S. law. All U.S. federal, state and local laws apply. Void where prohibited. Winners will be notified by mail and phone.

 

Official Entry Form

Entry Category

First Name

Last Name

Company Name

Address

City

State

Zip

Phone Number

Email Address

Questions

Affidavit of Eligibility
I confirm that as an applicant of the American Painting Contractor TOP JOB Awards contest, I meet all contest eligibility requirements posted in the Official Rules.

     

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