Painting the house
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Topic: Painting the house
Posted By: T_Rex
Subject: Painting the house
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 11:42am
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We need to get our house painted fairly urgently - and living in not-so-sunny manawatu means it had better happen this summer (I'm thinking late Jan/early Feb - hopefully I'm feeling semi-human by then).
We have an approx 130m2 stucco house with corrogated iron roof. I'm going to get a few people round to quote once I'm on maternity leave, but I was wondering if anyone had had theirs done recently and could give me a ballpark figure? Also, how long does it take if you get a contractor to do it? A couple of days? A week? The alternative we were thinking of was hiring a student to do it. Do you think they'd do a good enough job and how much would you pay a student for it? Any ideas/experiences much appreciated  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: squoggs
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 12:41pm
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im not sure if this is any help to you, but we own a rental property and recently had to paint the inside of it and Resene had a 30%off paint sale (1lt paint = 12square metres of wall). Not sure if sale is still on, and not sure if the same formula works for the outside (but it should probably be close) but if you could pick up paint cheaply the a student would be a good option - just ensure they are careful around the windows - ie not painting over hinges & sanding properly first.
If you contact student job search, they should be able to give you an idea of how long it has taken students in the past, and what to pay them. |
Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 12:59pm
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The key to a good job is making sure it is prepared properly (sanded back well, boards replaced where required etc). Once prepared well almost anyone could paint it so long as like mentioned above they don't paint windows shut!
I have a feeling our friends paid something like $15k but that sounds crazy so can't be right surely. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 1:01pm
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You could always contact the carpentry / building skills dept at UCOL and get someone who knows what they are doing.
I'd prefer to pay a contractor if I wasn't doing it myself, as a crap paint job can cost twice as much to fix. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Twinboys2b
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 3:09pm
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It also depends on how old the paint is as to whether it has led in it (I think it's led). If it's old & has led then the old paint needs to come off a special way which costs more.
We were quoted around $15,000 for our house due to having led paint which I think is around 120sqm but it's weatherboard which might make it even more expensive than stucco (so don't know?). I think if you got a student who has some experience then it could work out well. You could get him/her to prep the house & get a prof to paint it if you were concerned with the quality of work. I'd say $15-18/hr depending on experience (as a guess). Who really notices a bad paint job on the exterior of a house. You could even get him/her to do the sides which arn't seen much and get a prof to do the front & back if concerned. ------------- 3yr old gorgeous ID twin boys. |
Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 3:26pm
We're doing ours ourselves we went to reid paints in otaki after pricing it all out and we got paint for our 102sq/m place for $370 (including primer and the different type of paint for the windows). We have never-been-painted weatherboards (state house) so waterblasted, ran the sander over everything and just went for it. Its been easy as and looks awesome (or will when we finish  ).
When we priced a contracter to do it we were looking at easily over the $10k mark  bugger that...-------------   
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 3:31pm
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We have a stucco house.
Water blast the outside...get a student. BUT you need to pain pretty fast after this is done. Same day fill cracks. Next day paint. You will need two coats unless you are staying the same colour. You could get someone with experience & TBH it doesn't take very long with the correct technique & correct roller. We watched the painter watched the painter roll the house next to us & followed his technique. You need to be careful that its not to hot cause the paint goes off to quickly. The stucco will be easy...the windows a little harder, you will need to check what the putty is like & if it's not good it's not that cheap to get it repaired. You might need 2-3 10 ltr pails just for the walls? ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ohanlon82
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 3:38pm
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Yeah it was alot of hard work but we did ours..
Got paint thru a friend at Dulux - 1/2 price.. went through about 5 - 6 pales on paint.. 2 different colours So all up cost us about $400 and alot of hard work ------------- http://lb2f.lilypie.com/TikiPic.php/RPaODBg.jpg |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 8:33pm
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Wow I'm impressed that it's not too expensive.
Has got me thinking... (I'm sure my Dh will love you all  )
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 12 November 2009 at 9:36pm
| We recently painted Mum and Dad's house - stucco but only 80m2. Dad waterblasted the entire house to get the old flaking paint off, filled in any holes/cracks and then DH painted it. I think it took 2-3 10L buckets of paint (Dulux I think) for 2 coats, from memory. |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 13 November 2009 at 7:21am
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Lol emz. My DH is still working on the last thing I 'thought' of (re-papering our spare room). To be fair, I help too, but since I do most of the housework, he ends up with most of the renovation stuff.
I can't really offer any tips, Becs, but I'm watching with interest, because our house will need doing some day. -------------   
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 3:41pm
| we did a house ourselves and it cost $400 total. |
Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:25pm
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Wow, I'm liking the sound of $400!
Usually we'd do it ourselves, but with a tiny baby, I'm not sure its the best idea. How long did it take to do it yourselves? Maybe its a job for DH when he's got a month off to help me out ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:39pm
| I'm painting the garage at the moment (garage plus a sleepout unit on the back). Because of budget constraints its not being done all at once, just one colour at a time (we have 3 to do) and I only do about an hour or two at a time. It really won't take long to do. Its only the prep work that takes a while and the windows. I'm only doing one window per day (while daniel is at daycare for a couple of hours). By december it will be done as I also have to work around Palmy crappy weather. |
Posted By: busybee
Date Posted: 17 November 2009 at 8:43am
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friend of mine was also quoted around 15k to do his house. we decided to do ours ourself. cost us about $400 in paint - on half price special - and we are almost done painting.....well outside at least...but the inside needs some tlc too. I don't mind doing walls and doors etc...but I don't have the energy to do the ceilings, which we have to too...hasn't seen a lick of paint in decades
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 17 November 2009 at 11:06am
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Hey Busybee, we've just painted the interior. Ceilings are a pain - especially sanding them, but if you get a roller with a long handle, they aren't too bad to paint.
Stacey doing it in bits is a good idea too And I so know what you mean about the palmy weather!!------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 17 November 2009 at 11:19am
| Doing it in bits works well for me. I have to cause of bills but screw paying someone thousands to do what I can do myself. Its not that hard. You guys could do it while bubs is asleep. We hardly saw Daniel in the early days cause he was only up an hour at a time if that and you could just do a couple of hours. Its amazing what you can get done in a couple of hours. |
Posted By: ohanlon82
Date Posted: 17 November 2009 at 12:06pm
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DH and I did ours over the xmas holidays one year...
No baby so alot easier It took us a soild 2 weeks but so happy it is done now - got a nice tan too ------------- http://lb2f.lilypie.com/TikiPic.php/RPaODBg.jpg |