How much did you pay per room for painter /decorator?

[Wigeon]

Not sure if these are reasonable quotes for painting various rooms in our house:

Kitchen & Dining area £800.00 - there is quite a bit of filling holes/cracks to do, including repair of broken plaster where there was a leak, before painting with white paint. Open plan rectangular space: dining area 3m x 3m, kitchen approx 6m x 3m (although obviously a lot of the walls have kitchen units on them).

Lounge £590.00 - fairly small room - maybe 6m x 3m?

Hall, Staircase and Landing £260.00

Bathroom £260.00

Master Bedroom £420.00 - fits a double bed with about 1m either side and 1m at the end of the foot of the bed.

Front Bedroom £420.00 - roughly same size

How does this compare with what you’ve paid?

I've just moved and had a decorator come in. He charged £120 a day. In 5 days he did the lounge, dining room, sofa downstairs room and downstairs bathroom.

Lounge had lots of holes to fill, one big one as I'd had the gas fire capped and removed.

He was here 8.30 til 4.30 every day.

Surely it depends where you are? We just paid £500 for 2 bedrooms - walls, ceilings, skirting board, stripping a border and filling cracks - in Essex.

Forgot to say the dogs room is 4 x 3, the living room is 6 x 3 and dining room 4 x 3. Still have the floor plans on my phone from right move.

I live in Bedfordshire.

It will depend a lot on your area, the state of the walls, whether it’s just an ‘easy’ top coat (similar colours) or a difficult one (white over black) whether it’s crilings or not, skirtings/door frames/doors or not...

Plus, of course, what quality/experience (with references/referrals) the painter has.

Im paying £950 for hall (upstairs and down), stairway, kitchen, downstairs toilet, 8 doors plus skirting. Wallpapering two walls. Includes paint but not wallpaper. Only had one quote because I couldn’t be bothered, but seemed about right ish commercial projects.

We're paying 6k for 4 bedrooms, hall stairs and landing over 3 floors, kitchen (although it's a galley kitchen and mostly only the ceiling needs done as there's v little wall space). Lots of filling holes and fixing peeling wallpaper etc. Was not the cheapest quote but cheaper end of the spectrum. Central London, 2ish weeks work, 1 to 3 guys depending on the day.

About £120-£150 a day ish

Could be more if you wanted it done overnight or at weekends although that tend to be the commercial customers not domestic clients .

Obviously depends on how easy the job is as to how much can be done in a day also if you wanted it done quickly and wanted more than 1 man on the job , that would increase the cost .

My exh runs a decorating firm and this is what he would put in for the labour , you would buy the paint or wallpaper yourself .

We are West Midlands if that makes a difference.

Your quotes sound very high for what you want doing .

We’re Hertfordshire, very near London, so probably on the expensive end. Most of the walls are fine and it’s putting white paint on top of white paint. In a couple of rooms it’ll be pale colour over white.

There are a couple of cracks in the master bedroom walls. The kitchen walls are the worst - some cracks, dents where the dining chairs have bashed the wall, and in particular the damage from the leak in the ceiling (leak now fixed) which needs repairing (by him) before fixing. He says he'll put stain block on.

He’s also going to do a couple of coats on the woodwork (assume he means the door frames, possibly also skirting; all the windows are PVC).

Hm, it does sound on the pricey side. We had him a few years ago and got more than one quote that time; he was competitive price-wise then and we were happy with his work. Think we probably need to get another quote this time too.

Hump. That sounds very expensive, even for London.

We have just paid £2400 for a large 4 bedroom detached house which has 12 internal doors, large stairs and landing with bannister. The walls were decent so not much filling. It took the guy on his own 2 weeks, this was with him starting at 7am and finishing around 6pm 6 days a week.

Hi Villanellesproudmum, do you still have the details of the person who did the job if it is in London. That's a very good price.

@Villanellesproudmum
Hi do you still have the details of the person who did the job if it is in London. That's a very good price. Thx

We're paying £559 for a very large living room with ornate cornicing and lots of wood work. This is half the price of our first quote - it's always worth getting more than one.

550 for a kitchen diner and utility (fairly large space)

That sounds pretty much in line with what we paid, £580 for one living room , about 6 x3 and £600 for a slightly bigger dining room. SE London, one year ago.

I'm in London and paid £150 a day - the chap did 5 days in total for me on a 1 bed flat. This included painting the entire flat, after filling holes, caulking, sorting out my ceilings, skirting etc. He got a fair bit done in 5 days.