How much and how long to have a house interior painted?
Discussion
My house is a 3 bed 1960s detached. Whole interior of house needs repainting - walls, ceiling, woodwork - bathroom and kitchen have been fully replastered, a couple of walls have been reskimmed.
The rest of the walls are plaster with wallpaper already stripped off which needs prepping, sanding, holes filling etc.
Does £2600 in the North West for labour for 2 guys over 3 weeks (15 working days) sound about right? I'll supply the paint. It works about £173 per day.
The rest of the walls are plaster with wallpaper already stripped off which needs prepping, sanding, holes filling etc.
Does £2600 in the North West for labour for 2 guys over 3 weeks (15 working days) sound about right? I'll supply the paint. It works about £173 per day.
Emeye said:
The walls will need a lot of prep. They are covered in the adhesive from the nasty old wallpaper that I have steam stripped off.
This is where a good plasterer comes in very handy. To be honest I don't know how long it can take a decorator to prep a room, but they should be able to decorate in a day.
A good plasterer will skim a room in a couple of days, give him two rooms and he'll do the two in a couple of days. They like to do two walls at a time ( or mine does anyway). So if they can do two sets and jump onto the next room they can get a fair bit done.
Plasterers and decorators seem to charge roughly the same money. And I would prefer a freshly skimmed wall every time. So I wouldn't be paying a decorator to spend days or weeks prepping walls.
rufusgti said:
This is where a good plasterer comes in very handy.
To be honest I don't know how long it can take a decorator to prep a room, but they should be able to decorate in a day.
A good plasterer will skim a room in a couple of days, give him two rooms and he'll do the two in a couple of days. They like to do two walls at a time ( or mine does anyway). So if they can do two sets and jump onto the next room they can get a fair bit done.
Plasterers and decorators seem to charge roughly the same money. And I would prefer a freshly skimmed wall every time. So I wouldn't be paying a decorator to spend days or weeks prepping walls.
Thanks for everyone's replies - last night I decided I would have all the remaining walls that had not already been replastered, skimmed. It means delaying moving in another few weeks while we have to wait for my plasterer to become available, but he will do all the painting afterwards.To be honest I don't know how long it can take a decorator to prep a room, but they should be able to decorate in a day.
A good plasterer will skim a room in a couple of days, give him two rooms and he'll do the two in a couple of days. They like to do two walls at a time ( or mine does anyway). So if they can do two sets and jump onto the next room they can get a fair bit done.
Plasterers and decorators seem to charge roughly the same money. And I would prefer a freshly skimmed wall every time. So I wouldn't be paying a decorator to spend days or weeks prepping walls.
As well as working out much cheaper, the finish will be a million times better - again, due to time scales on our last refurb house we had the walls lined and painted instead of skimmed and I was never happy with it.
We plan to live in this house forever, so makes sense to do it correctly.
I paid my guy £1300 to repaint walls and word work for one of our rentals. 3 bed semi but has small utility, small play room, separate hall stairs and landing. Half new plaster, half existing etc. Had to strip 2 bedroom walls.
The price included paint .... North Notts area
...he's good too.....we use him to do some work at our own house
The price included paint .... North Notts area
...he's good too.....we use him to do some work at our own house
33q said:
I paid my guy £1300 to repaint walls and word work for one of our rentals. 3 bed semi but has small utility, small play room, separate hall stairs and landing. Half new plaster, half existing etc. Had to strip 2 bedroom walls.
The price included paint .... North Notts area
...he's good too.....we use him to do some work at our own house
What did he do to the stripped walls prior to painting?The price included paint .... North Notts area
...he's good too.....we use him to do some work at our own house
The problem with a thread like this is that every house is different. I've recently decorated a room where I spent a day just scraping out old caulk from skirting and door trims as well as 30 years of silicon on top of silicon around the windows.
You then try replacing the 1970s socket and light switch face plates with modern versions that are 2mm smaller so you need to remove them completely and make good the 40 years of paint on top of paint layered around the switches.
A room can take anywhere between 2 days to well over a week.
You then try replacing the 1970s socket and light switch face plates with modern versions that are 2mm smaller so you need to remove them completely and make good the 40 years of paint on top of paint layered around the switches.
A room can take anywhere between 2 days to well over a week.
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