How much to pain a 5 bedroom house?

[ujerneyson]

We've a 5 bedroom house which needs painting. All the walls and ceilings are newly plastered and we're looking at using Johnstone's paint, no stripping walls and no making good as walls are now perfect. House is circa 2000 sq feet. Our builder is quoting us £11000 plus VAT which sounds terribly high to me. It will include woodwork but not painting any doors. Before I go back and challenge him I'd like an idea if it's worth even having the discussion or whether my expectations are wide off the mark.

We've just got a similar quote, £6k which included three room of stripping and prep and lining paper. The rest is on plaster.

It has cost us £1800 (inc VAT) recently to have a master bedroom painted. It is a big room and we had walls, ceilings and a lot of woodwork done (skirtings, architraves, 5 doors, ceiling beams). Two years before, we paid £950 to have our main living room painted (prep & walls only) by a different decorator. Both fully insured, skilled, experienced, highly thought of local firms.

I can well believe that with prep work it would cost £11k for a whole house, on that basis.

I wouldn’t pay £11k for a builder to do it though.

My dp is a decorator and currently doing an empty 3 bed house, which will take about 20 days in total, including prep etc. At a day rate of £125 that will be £2.5k, so for an extra 2 bedrooms and potentially an extra reception room, you should be looking at no more than £5k I would think. As pp have said, a lot of builders don't like to do decorating so will massively overcharge to avoid the work! Also it is definitely worth getting a professional

I have had a property that fits your description done for a third of that in Essex, it seems excessive.

That’s too much, daily rates are on average 150 in the south east. Get some other quotes in.id expect max of half that.

Just be quoted £618 to paint walls, ceiling and woodwork in one biggish room. If you consider all the rooms and halls etc, that could be about right.

been quoted

Thank you. I've spoken to the builder and he agrees that it is too much. He will come back to me but we're looking more at the £6-7k which is more in line with what I thought.

I have a 5 bed detached house 3500 sq ft and recently had the following work carried out

Exterior - repair woodwork and paint all of outside, including a large decking.

Hall and double height vaulted staircase and landing
2 large bathroom ceilings
2 double bedrooms
1 master suite, of very large bedroom and dressing room

Covered painting all of room, including woodwork, radiators etc

Decorator charged us £2,500 and we supplied the paint which cost around £1000

Wow I've been a painter for years. With ur discription(haven't read all of it) that's a lot of money. I didn't see what area (London's different) I'm in Birmingham and would charge between 350/450 a room. Depending on size, number of doors. Down stairs hallway I count as a room, staircase landing another room. All depends on how big it all is. Even so that seems a lot.

Just had my bungalow done by a firm, 3.bedrooms, large living room diner, 2 bathrooms and kitchen, hallway, and also front door, all ceilings included. Under £3k
Scotland

Oh and that was them supplying the paint, gloss and eggshell

I paid to get my house painted. The walls needs plans of prep work, I was getting wooden trim painted and wooden windows. For a first time home owner it was too big a job for me to tackle.

Luckily my house is a small two bed bungalow which meant I could afford the price (not in the UK so price won’t mean anything).

Its about 500 to 600 a room here.

Blimey that's a lot of money