When the Horace Mann School didn't want to drain the indoor pool to paint the ceiling Bill just set the scaffold in the water. Adjusting the scaffold for the different depths of the pool required a skill not usually associated with painting.

Bill checks out the gold tongue and groove ceiling of Salem United Methodist Church in Manhattan. Painting with metallic paint is not the same as other paints. When his workers didn't apply the paint as he told them Bill had his workers redo the whole ceiling.

At Mount Calvary Methodist Church  (Manhattan) Bill Jr. is setting up a scaffold. When asked about the picture, Bill Jr. remembers "We were almost finished putting on the final coat in that church when my father walked in, looked up at the ceiling and said we missed a spot. I argued that we didn't. We moved the scaffold over, climbed up and sure enough we missed a spot  about the size of a half dollar."