quick painting job price

Andy From Sligo

couple of doors up from us having their whole outside of the house painted in masonry paint.

2 fellas , big ladders, painting it with roller. Wife says to me do us a favour Andy will you pop down and ask how much they would charge to paint our 2 Dormer parts upstairs that jut out from the roof , just the front.

Last summer I had painted all the house and wall around the house bar the upstairs dormer bits because of 2 reasons , I dont have high enough ladders and even if i did I get vertigo going up a ladder that high (yeah I know I am a wuss!)

popped down there "Hi, how ya doing?" - sorry to disturb you, I am just from a few doors up (well they would know that because they have seen me in front garden and waved a couple of times) - how much would you charge to paint just the dormer bits on my house - explained that I cannot get up there with my ladder that it wont reach, dont need whole house painted as I done the rest last summer and its fine..... bit of silence , he followed me to front of house he was painting at and I pointed to the dormer bits poking out "just them bits I said, just at the front of the house" and then he spoke (shouldn't generalise) but it was in an eastern european accent (could have been Polish or Lithuanian but I can never tell the difference in the accents myself ) 300 he said .... I said just the bits at the top (making an arch/dormer shape) he nodded, I said and me supplying the paint? and no powerwashing or anything? - yes he said. "OK thanks, I shall have to save up some money" I said - took his number anyway.

Goes back to our own house , wife shouts down "well?" - 300 quid I says! .. your joking , no, I'm deadly serious - and you did say it was just the upstairs dormer bits only - yep?

i mean, its got to be an hour of painting at the most ... I know how much I managed to paint in an hour ..... with a brush! - "50quid tops thats what I thought you were gonna say" mrs says, me too to be honest.

Again shouldnt generalise but I thought seeing as they had ladders already in situ 2 doors up and could just walk over carrying the ladders and i just thought they might do cash in hand or something (again sorry for generalising) .

Now, I know all the other caveats that I shouldnt be a tight wad, and that I shouldnt underestimate their work and time and labour and expertise and all that .. and that if the people who pay for a whole house paint will feel done if they only charge 50 quid to do our dormer bits - I know all that and appreciate that - but i just suppose its shock of how much they said they will charge for doing such a small job.

ah, well I suppose the only way it is going to get painted now is to try and find an 'odd job' bloke who wants to earn enough for a few pints and and not afraid to go up high on a ladder - other than that it will have to stay unpainted like it has for the last 6 months or so

D3V!L

Cool story

riffmongous

Cool story bro

Try_harder

And and his not made up stories - such fun

pickarooney

You could probably buy a ladder for 50 quid. Is your wife also a wuss or could she do it?

Andy From Sligo

was it good price - thats what I should have asked

Trigger Happy

Maybe move house to a cheaper area with cheaper painters?

GoneHome

I would have thought €100 but certainly not €300

Andy From Sligo

pickarooney wrote: »

You could probably buy a ladder for 50 quid. Is your wife also a wuss or could she do it?

show me a high ladder you can buy for 50 quid (one thats not falling to bits or dangerous)

yes, she most probably would go up there she not a wuss like me , she goes co-steering and everything and next wants to try that high up wire thing

Andy From Sligo

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Maybe move house to a cheaper area with cheaper painters?

I've always said I like bungalow houses better - for this point being one reason ...

punisher5112

Only one option burn the house.....

Then build a new one that doesn't require painting.... Win win situation....

Stheno

You should start a blog called "this weeks unreasonable expense/ non freebie that im going to whinge about"

Everyone benefits, you get an online audience and we dont have to read it.

Try_harder

GoneHome wrote: »

I would have thought €100 but certainly not €300

Would you do a job for €100? What would you do for it?

punisher5112

Oh and go back down to the guys and tell them you would do it for €50.

If they are a legitimate set up they would need to be charging that for vat and tax purposes.

They would be lucky to come out with half of that.

punisher5112

Stheno wrote: »

You should start a blog called "this weeks unreasonable expense/ non freebie that im going to whinge about"

Everyone benefits, you get an online audience and we dont have to read it.

I read this does that count...

McMurphy

Is your Mrs hot?

I have long ladders and am a good painter.

Andy From Sligo

Try_harder wrote: »

Would you do a job for €100? What would you do for it?

hell yeah! , what a job under an hour? .. with all stuff like paint brushes and paint supplied - show me the way (as long as its not high up )

Andy From Sligo

punisher5112 wrote: »

Oh and go back down to the guys and tell them you would do it for €50.

If they are a legitimate set up they would need to be charging that for vat and tax purposes.

They would be lucky to come out with half of that.

Capt'n Midnight

Telling you it was €300 was just a polite way to say PFO but if some sucker had said yes then happy days.

For that money you could buy a drone and some spray paint.

DJIMI TRARORE

€300; FFS I got the whole 2 storey house(large) done for €200,2 days,tax reg,qualified painter and Irish:)

corner of hells

It's Andy , no doubt the painters read AH and don't want anything to do with him, so they give a high price hoping he'll quietly fcuk off. . but oh no ,he goes and starts another thread in AH that'll go all over the place like a mad man's ****e

punisher5112

I'll do it for €250 I'll only drop the the €50 if the wife's hot though.....

Andy From Sligo

punisher5112 wrote: »

I'll do it for €250 I'll only drop the the €50 if the wife's hot though.....

perv

punisher5112

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

perv

Don't tell....

Wesser

Just lean out your windows.

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Andy From Sligo

Wesser wrote: »

Just lean out your windows.

i was thinking about that - have to have a safety harness though .... - was even thinking of abseiling the roof .. but as I say I am no good with heights ...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Got a quote for the outside of the house just tonight and it's €140 per day.

punisher5112

Marina Melodic Mandrake wrote: »

Got a quote for the outside of the house just tonight and it's €140 per day.

How could a legitimate company do it for that.

the_pen_turner

Marina Melodic Mandrake wrote: »

Got a quote for the outside of the house just tonight and it's €140 per day.

thats not bad. probably a bit cheap reaally

Andy From Sligo

Marina Melodic Mandrake wrote: »

Got a quote for the outside of the house just tonight and it's €140 per day.

thats more like it

pickarooney

Seriously, if anyone's looking for a painting job, you'd pick up a grand easy for the type of job OP is offering in the South of France.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

thats more like it

Call in to your local paint shop and ask for a recommended painter's number.

Andy From Sligo

pickarooney wrote: »

Seriously, if anyone's looking for a painting job, you'd pick up a grand easy for the type of job OP is offering in the South of France.

yeah but we not in the south of france

Andy From Sligo

i remember the days you could get an east european to paint your whole house for 50 quid and still get change for a bag of chips ... they gone awfully expensive these days ...

Mint Sauce

€300? Are you sure you told them just the Dormers?

Andy From Sligo

Mint Sauce wrote: »

€300? Are you sure you told them just the Dormers?

yep - i even pointed at them and made the arch shape . maybe he thought i was going to haggle, you know start high and then come down but i werent in the mood for haggling and just wanted a straight haggle free price, and got quite a shock when he said 300 ... all i could think about was my next electricity bill which could be around the 250euro mark next month....

slavetothegrind

i'd say they wised up to exploitation. the eastern europeans we berated unless we were getting cheap labor from them

But yeah that was a PFO price, we are busy don't need it but if you will give us this feck it we will do it!

Try_harder

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

yep - i even pointed at them and made the arch shape . maybe he thought i was going to haggle, you know start high and then come down but i werent in the mood for haggling and just wanted a straight haggle free price, and got quite a shock when he said 300 ... all i could think about was my next electricity bill which could be around the 250euro mark next month....

Did you not tell your electricity provider that was very dear and haggle there too??

Andy From Sligo

Try_harder wrote: »

Did you not tell your electricity provider that was very dear and haggle there too??

oh blimey :rolleyes:

SCOOP 64

id say he didn't want the job, knowing you wouldn't pay €300 and couldn't be arse to do it for less.

Archeron

Have you considered a large amount of helium balloons and a deckchair? That always works out well. Or you could use Homers makeup gun and pepper the wall with splattered Marge faces from ground level.

donegaLroad

Last time I had the whole exterior of my house painted (two storey 2500 sq feet) I paid 800 & that included the paint.... 4 years ago.

Andy From Sligo

i'm thinking of hiring a cherry picker now , bleeding do it meself - i know i dont like heights on ladders, but maybe with the stability of a cherry picker i might be ok . - just dont look down eh?

donegaLroad

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

i'm thinking of hiring a cherry picker now , bleeding do it meself - i know i dont like heights on ladders, but maybe with the stability of a cherry picker i might be ok . - just dont look down eh?

You are right not to take chances with heights. Cherry pickers are safe. If you hire one for a day you could clean out your gettering, even put two coats of paint on the dormers and other high parts of the house.

Coming off a ladder 20 feet up would result in serious injury.

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