Eliminate the time and mess associated with onsite-finishing by having DPI Quality Custom Finishes prefinish your millwork and door package in our facility.  DPI Quality Custom Finishes provides competitive pricing, timely completions, and superior customer service.  From start to finish DPI Quality Custom Finishes maintains constant communication with you on your project.  DPI Quality Custom Finishes offers the most accurate stain and paint color matching in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Marion, and the rest of the Eastern Iowa Corridor.  DPI Quality Custom Finishes has several delivery options to get your millwork and door package to your jobsite safely, and when you need it. 

                        Consider These Finishing Factors:

Factors	Pre-finished	Site-finished
Surface Quality/ Appearance	Often considered superior; multi-step process adds durability, visual appeal	Depends on site conditions, worker skills, time available
Uniformity	Consistent as it comes from supplier, but work and touch-up done on-site may be tough if material is sanded or damaged. Contact  DPI Quality Custom Finishes and  we can help after installation	Consistent finish possible across entire installation. Field conditions may affect overall quality adversely
Cost	Higher quality materials used.  Cost for these materials is offset by less labor needed to finish material	Lower material quality; labor (finishing and installation) cost is additional and generally much higher
Jobsite Impact	Less onsite prep for millwork installation, eliminates hazardous fumes and production interruption of other trades onsite	Ties up areas of jobsite for days; impact of other's work may compromise quality
Quality Control	Typically strict, problems can be addressed in a timely manner and not delay onsite installation, problems front loaded	High standards may be hard to maintain in the field
Tasks On-site	Installation, fill fastener holes	Installation, repeated finishing steps, repeated drying intervals
Skill Level Required	Touch-up only after installation	High-to keep quality of finishes consistent

Pre-Finished Materials: Pre-finished products offer consistent quality and quick installation, although not without a few tradeoffs. Here's why:

Controlled Environment: DPI Quality Custom Finishes doesn't have to contend with the effects of other building trades working nearby. Dust, traffic, temperature and humidity are out of the picture.

The Right Tools: DPI Quality Custom Finishes works with low-pressure, high-volume spray guns and spray booths, so uniformly good appearance from piece to piece comes much more easily. Maintaining consistency across a whole installation is another matter -- when cutting and mitering expose fresh wood, a factory finish is difficult to match, and touch-ups are tricky if there's damage on a busy jobsite.  DPI Quality Custom Finishes offers touch-up stain and finish that was used on your project while it was pre-finished in our shop.  DPI Quality Custom Finishes also offers onsite finish repairs and touch-ups.

Budget:  DPI Quality Custom Finishes offers pre-finishing from $.45 to $2.00 per linear foot.  This is in addition to your raw millwork costs. However, there are several ways to look at the "real cost" question.   Prefinished materials finished in our shop will help builders save time and labor during installation. Finishing decorative millwork and doors can take three days or more onsite. You'll need a crew of finishers and extensive site preparation to finish millwork and doors onsite. Other work that could jeopardize the quality of the finish will have to stop, adding time to the construction schedule.  As we all know time is money, with our prefinish we can save both. 

With pre-finished products, site preparation is simpler, and other trades can continue to work. A lone carpenter or painter can complete touch-up in a day or two.