To ask you to guess the quote...?

[itsalwaysthesame]

Can I ask what you think is reasonable for the following painter / decorator quote based on the following...?

I'm obviously buying paint and the 3 rolls of wallpaper (allowing for pattern drop) for one feature wall.

So one wall of wallpaper, painting the other walls in living room 12ft x 9ft

Loft extension stairway (and about 2ft of ceiling, 13 step hall and 4ft of spindles. Plus the stair skirting, newly plastered walls in all of the above so no making good.

I live in the east Herts

£1200

About £1000-£1500?

5k

@itsalwaysthesame what have you been quoted then?
I'm waiting on a quote for two bedrooms prep and repainted one with wallpaper to be renewed on one wall.
I live in SE so interested to know your quote.

I'm really interested in the answer. I've never had a decorator in. My dad taught me to wallpaper and paint, when I got my first house 25 years ago. My DD recently asked me how much it costs to hire somebody and I genuinely had no idea! I'm shocked at the guesses so far (but appreciate tradesmen need to make a decent living) I'll be using it to tell DH how lucky he is, that I do it all 😆

I'd say 3-4 days work so £1600. About £400 per day gloss painting takes ages and needs 2 coats.

Around 1500

Thing is, that sounds like several days of work to me. Stairway and all that woodwork is a real PITA. I'd say deffo more than £1000, probably closer to £2k.

(I thought this was going to be a guess the quote from a film btw hahaha; still interested in the answer tho!)

Great guesses the quote was £1490

I think I'm so shocked as I wasn't expecting it to be that high! I was expecting it to be around 800 mark. Thanks all for your input sounds like a reasonable quote to me after your guesses.

I did wallpaper one of my daughters, tiny bedroom and painted the rest. It did break my back, hence why I wanted to get somebody in professional to do it. 🤣

My decorator (who is admittedly slow but very good) would take at least a week to do that work so I'd expect to spend £1-1.5k. But that would depend on how much prep/filling were involved.

£4k

I never understand why people don't paint themselves . Wallpaper is trickier but painting is easy ( if time consuming) . No one taught me , I learnt on my first house in my early 20's .

Disability aside you can paint a room easily in a day at the weekend

@caringcarer I won't be having gloss as prefer eggshell, pic of spindles

So not true. If you do it properly with prep etc it takes longer than that and most people have children and work etc to factor in so don't have clear weekends to devote to painting. We've done painting ourselves and it's always a much worse job than a professional does. Cutting in, consistency of application, prep work etc is always so much worse.

Also worth saying OP that just because it's new plaster doesn't mean there is no prep work- there may well be some dents or inconsistencies in the plaster which will need to be dealt with before he does the first coat and because it's bare plaster it will need a base coat before he applies the colour.

He'll need to do a mist cost over the fresh plaster so essentially will be painting it twice.

I'm painting our kitchen right now and the prep has taken nearly a week. (Admittedly the walls were not in good shape)

Moving all the kitchen stuff out every morning, and back before dinner, has also been time-consuming.

New plaster often needs a sand and will defo need a slurry coat, then it'll need likely three coats of paint. The spindles will all need sanded down too by the looks of them as will all woodwork that's already painted, wallpapers generally £30+ per roll. £1000 - £1500

Oh I don't blame you at all for getting someone in! I know if we had to pay £1000 plus though, it would never get done. Instead my DH just sees me coming in the house with bags of paint and wallpaper and he gets no say in the matter ha I do actually enjoy decorating, so it's not a pain. I find clearing the rooms out and getting started the hardest part and I'd have to do that bit myself anyway. I'm sure it'll be lovely getting it done 😊