painter and decorators

As to Handy's experience: let's think about this, taking the Janitor as an example:

He charges £100 a day. Now, to do a full-on top job of a typical living room would be what, two days prep, three days painting? So that is £500 labour.

Now, how much do you save by buying cheap wee-wee based paint compared to decent well-pigmented lovely paint? At most I reckon £50 in a room including the skirting, architraves and ceilings etc.

Does that make sense? I used to work in a merchant's and all the tradesmen got discounts INCLUDING painters and decorators. Which would mean they could get Dulux for little more than their customer would pay for the lower quality own-brand (as opposed to their "trade" ranges) in many sheds

Spot on, AdamW, but try explaining that to certain customers.....
Especially those who've already bought the goods.

Antway, your mathematics are incorrect, because it takes more time to apply the wee-wee products and get anything like an acceptable finish, so 3 days painting might end up as 3.5.

well al done it cost £200 with my own oaint supplied. there was 2 of them they started at 9 and went straight through till 6, and im very happy with the quality of the work and its made a massive difference feels like a different house.

Bodge, no doubt.

psalliss said:

how much would you say and painter and decorator would charge for painting the inside of a house. its a 3 bed semi, want the kitche-diner, lounge, hall, stairs and landing painted. if i supply paint.

cheers

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How long is a piece of string.....

I get asked this time and time again over the phone...waste of time, get a few people round and get written quotes off of them.

If a decorator is willing to give you a quote for something he/her cannot see then he/she is acting very unproffesionally and i would give them a wide berth.

I got asked this the other day.....a guy wanted a price to paper three rooms and a hallway....

I asked him..

1 what is the condition of the walls
2 what type of paper is it
3 how big are the rooms
4 one paper or two with a border
5 what are the shape of the rooms

By now he was totally confused and gave me so many 'dont knows' he asked for a rough price but wouldnt hold me to it....so i asked him what would be the point then?

I could have priced high and put him off......or priced low only to find that there was more work than expected and not started the job.

If anyone does price over the phone then they will price high.....very high to cover themselves.
If they get the job and do it in far less time in what they thought then they certainly wont be offering any money back
If they get the job and it takes longer then it will cause problems and the tradesman may walk off
If a customer gets three quotes and picks the cheapest they could still be paying way over the odds because to tradesman has 'covered him/herself'

Footnote:-...i went to price the job.....only to find the walls had distemper on them, half stripped, half filled with ready mixed polyfilla, damp, efloresence, rough......in fact a bulldozer would have been handy!

at least £960

Crikey! I haven't been on this website in years and suddenly receive notification of a reply! Who's been digging up old posts then?

Kinda forgot about this old place!

mildmanneredjanitor said:

Crikey! I haven't been on this website in years and suddenly receive notification of a reply! Who's been digging up old posts then?

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Spammer by the looks of it!

mildmanneredjanitor said:

Crikey! I haven't been on this website in years and suddenly receive notification of a reply! Who's been digging up old posts then?

Kinda forgot about this old place!

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Well you've got no excuse now. Start posting.

Yeah come out your janitors closet and be a Superhero

Nige F said:

Yeah come out your janitors closet and be a Superhero

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You do realise the real hero was "Spot" (the cat)

Are the usual suspects still around? Breezer, Ban All Sheds, Mason etc? I may have a snoop around