Painter - to paint inside (top to toe) of 3 bed Semi D and recently converted Attic

goldenhoarde

Hi all

I'm looking for a guestimate on getting the whole house repainted (in Sept) as we just got the attic converted so that needs doing so was thinking of seeing what it would be ballpark for the complete house (walls and ceiling)

1) stairs and landing
2) WC under stairs
3) sitting room
4) Kitchen/Dining room
5) Bathroom
6) Main Bedroom
7) en-suite
8) Box room
9) double room
10) Attic conversion (never been painted)

Roof for all is stippled bar the new attic which is smooth.

Heroditas

I can't see you getting much change out of €3000 minimum!
If it's a one man job, they would take about two weeks at least.
The ceilings will be the biggest time consumer.

lord lucan

Moved to Interior Design & Decoration,you'll get a much better response there.

Merch

Heroditas wrote: »

I can't see you getting much change out of €3000 minimum!
If it's a one man job, they would take about two weeks at least.
The ceilings will be the biggest time consumer.

Presume that includes everything,just did a biggish hall stairs and landing, from your estimates I saved myself a few quid more than I reckoned :eek:

Also, two weeks minimum? maybe they go faster than I thought, I know a proper painter can cover a lot of area quick, but for a good job there is a limit surely?
I'd say the time depends on who and whats in the place and who's moving stuff/what you're working around? also one man doing the preparation and all that painting, lot of work.

Heroditas

Well, I'm kinda going by my own speed at decorating and also experience from when I got someone in to do it for me.
I had a guy in who took a day and a half to do the hall, stairs and landing and took another day then to paint the dining room.
Factor in the living room and kitchen and we'd be easily looking at another two days.
That leaves the upstairs....

Of course, what brings the cost up is the attention to detail that some painters will bring to the job and also the cost of insurance, VAT etc..
You'd use a fair bit of paint doing the whole house too and if different colours are used in each room, that'll push the cost up quite a bit.

Unless the whole house is painted in magnolia and the painter just gets a barrel of the stuff!

goldenhoarde

cheers for the replies

If i go at myself its the time that it will take me getting a few hours in each evening.

2-3 an evening plus a day over the weekend is only about 2 days or so a week so looking like over a month to get it done myself!

I'll have to rethink and see what i will do based on the replies

clappyhappy

€3,000 seems like a lot. I recently got a guy in to paint ceilings and walls in utility room, very large kitchen 2 colours, downstairs hall, stairs and landing 2 colours all ceilings white. Hall stairs and landing needed a double coat, took him 2 and a half days, perfect job especially around different colours joining, he also supplied the paint and cost €500, fully legit with insurance etc.

paddy147

And if you do it yourself (we did our own house ourselves),then all you pay for is the paint,rollers and brushes..:D







Cost of painting depends on a few things..........

Walls,ceilings and skirting and any prep work needed?
Actual type of Paint?
How many coats of paint?
Size of rooms and ceilings?

Heroditas

clappyhappy wrote: »

€3,000 seems like a lot. I recently got a guy in to paint ceilings and walls in utility room, very large kitchen 2 colours, downstairs hall, stairs and landing 2 colours all ceilings white. Hall stairs and landing needed a double coat, took him 2 and a half days, perfect job especially around different colours joining, he also supplied the paint and cost €500, fully legit with insurance etc.

Bloody hell, that's awfully cheap! :eek:

johnwest288

paddy147 wrote: »

And if you do it yourself (we did our own house ourselves),then all you pay for is the paint,rollers and brushes..:D







Cost of painting depends on a few things..........

Walls,ceilings and skirting and any prep work needed?
Actual type of Paint?
How many coats of paint?
Size of rooms and ceilings?

Agree with Paddy here I did my whole house. I got quotes from 1900 - 2850.
I actually did it myself in the end and got some help from my brother.
Yes its a PAIN in the neck to prep
Yes the house is a nightmare for a few days
But actually once you get into it, its not too bad at all.
Doing it in the evenings will take forever and you do need good daylight.
Take a few days off from work and lash into it. Keep that 2k in your back pocket!

paddy147

johnwest288 wrote: »

Agree with Paddy here I did my whole house. I got quotes from 1900 - 2850.
I actually did it myself in the end and got some help from my brother.
Yes its a PAIN in the neck to prep
Yes the house is a nightmare for a few days
But actually once you get into it, its not too bad at all.
Doing it in the evenings will take forever and you do need good daylight.
Take a few days off from work and lash into it. Keep that 2k in your back pocket!

We found it rather relaxing indeed.

She was up on the ladder,12 feet above me,and I was sitting on the floor painting/prepping the new skirting boards.:)

Radio on Spin 103.8fm and the 2 of us just chatting away while doing the painting,and we couldnt believe how easy and fast we could get a room prepped and painted.

We did the entire house,just like you did yourself.Great craic and raher relaxing too (which I would never have thought to begin with).:D

StillWaters

It's going to be a lot cheaper than 3k if there is no glossing involved, skirting and doors. If it's just walls and ceiling, I reckon you are looking at nearer 1k.

mizzogg

paddy147 wrote: »

And if you do it yourself (we did our own house ourselves),then all you pay for is the paint,rollers and brushes..:D







Cost of painting depends on a few things..........

Walls,ceilings and skirting and any prep work needed?
Actual type of Paint?
How many coats of paint?
Size of rooms and ceilings?

Steps , ladders, sheets, rollers ,brushes,filling & scraping knives, caulk gun, roller tray/bucket etc

DublinDIYguy

johnwest288 wrote: »

Agree with Paddy here I did my whole house. I got quotes from 1900 - 2850.
I actually did it myself in the end and got some help from my brother.
Yes its a PAIN in the neck to prep
Yes the house is a nightmare for a few days
But actually once you get into it, its not too bad at all.
Doing it in the evenings will take forever and you do need good daylight.
Take a few days off from work and lash into it. Keep that 2k in your back pocket!

If you can take a few days off work and still get payed for those days, then defo go with this plan, but don't loose days pay to do half of what a painter would do each day and with a far inferior finish. Yes you may find it therapeutic or fulfilling to have done it yourself but it'll look worse and take longer..

DublinDIYguy

mizzogg wrote: »

Steps , ladders, sheets, rollers ,brushes,filling & scraping knives, caulk gun, roller tray/bucket etc

Sandpaper, sandingpads, filler, tubes of caulk, roller pole, full set of clothes your prepared to get paint on...

DublinDIYguy

If you want your house looking at its best, there's many very good painters out there who could make it look fantastic, and the first guy was spot on. If your paying about €3000 all in, that covers a painter for 2 wks inc vat and about €350's worth of paint/materials..
2 weeks gives enough time to do it properly and €350 should cover all expenses..
The professional job is always far better than the diy's. so splash out the €3000 and have a really nice house without any hassle for you or wasting €200 on tools you wont need for another 5 yrs..

tippspur

A DIY job of painting is never as good as getting a professional painter in to do the job no matter what anyone says,and believe me I've seen a good few of them,do it wrong first day and it's wrong forever.

paddy147

DublinDIYguy wrote: »

If you can take a few days off work and still get payed for those days, then defo go with this plan, but don't loose days pay to do half of what a painter would do each day and with a far inferior finish. Yes you may find it therapeutic or fulfillingto have done it yourself but it'll look worse and take longer..

WOW...You must personally know every person in Ireland then and know their individual diy skills and abilities too,if you are so sure of everyones lack of abilities and diy skills with regards that statement of yours above

DublinDIYguy

paddy147 wrote: »

WOW...You must personally know every person in Ireland then and know their individual diy skills and abilities too,if you are so sure of everyones lack of abilities and diy skills with regards that statement of yours above

So you're saying some diy enthusiasts are better painters than the good professionals who have a minimum of 4 yrs (length of time it takes to become qualified) experience working full time as a painter??

paddy147

DublinDIYguy wrote: »

So you're saying some diy enthusiasts are better painters than the good professionals who have a minimum of 4 yrs (length of time it takes to become qualified) experience working full time as a painter??

Eh if you look at what you have posted.......Its you who are saying that a diy job will be worse than getting in a painter to do the job...you are the one who is saying that and telling us all that if we do it ourselves that it will be a worse job...so all Im am doing is questioning you on your post.

DublinDIYguy wrote: »

Yes you may find it therapeutic or fulfilling to have done it yourself but it'll look worse.

Every person is different so you cant just jump in and say that about a person like you have..in your post

Hense me asking you if you personally know every person in Ireland or on boards.ie and their individual abilities and diy skills?????

DublinDIYguy

paddy147 wrote: »

Its you who are saying that a diy job will be worse than getting in a painter to do the job...you are the one who is saying that and telling us all that if we do it ourselves that it will be a worse job.






Every person is different so you cant just jump in and say that about every person like you have..in your post

Hense me asking you if you personally know every person in Ireland or on boards.ie and their individual abilities and diy skills?????

Yes I am saying that a good professional painter ( not the ones you quote who work for less than the painters rate) will do a far better job than any diy job and much quicker. And I would say the same about any profession. I don't need to know everyone on this site to know that Micheal Schumaker is a better driver than them all. Apart from you of course, you're the best at everything. You can pick up any trade and be the best in a few weeks!!

paddy147

DublinDIYguy wrote: »

Yes I am saying that a good professional painter ( not the ones you quote who work for less than the painters rate) will do a far better job than any diy job and much quicker. And I would say the same about any profession. I don't need to know everyone on this site to know that Micheal Schumaker is a better driver than them all. Apart from you of course, you're the best at everything. You can pick up any trade and be the best in a few weeks!!

No one said anything about being the best at everything.I see you are making up more accusations and things to say....yet again.:(

You seem to have issues with a person being able to paint a room or a house themselves and that if they do it themselves then it will be worse or must be worse than forking out for a painter to paint the room.

DublinDIYguy wrote: »

Yes you may find it therapeutic or fulfilling to have done it yourself but it'll look worse.

^^^^^^^^
You dont know the abilities and skills of people here with regards DIY...so to say that it will look worse is not fair or right.

Who are you to just jump in,prejudge and put down anyones ability,just because they are not a professional painter or dont employ a painter to paint a room???

yop

MOD NOTE:

Any once again we are descending into off topic discussions and comments on what others have posted.

I have warned and infracted and closed threads already this weekend.

Lets just leave it that there are good DIY'ers and professional painters and agree to disagree.

Closing the thread as its run its course, Paddy147 and DublinDIYguy if I come across threads been hauled into arguments again bans will be handed out, DublinDIYguy your just back from a ban since 1st Dec, your cutting a very thin line.