Decorating Costs

i stumbled across this thread while surfing . I am a self employed painter and decorator, it is very difficult to price for works without firstly seeing in person exactly what has to be done. The size and shape of a room is the first thing to be taken into account and as has been said previously the condition of surfaces to be decorated. I also note you don't say what type of decorating is required, is it solely emulsioning and gloss work or is there paper to be hung also, old paper to be removed ect.

I work on an average of £120 per day I can polish of an average room in that one day including moderate filling, preparation and minor repairs, inclusive of undercoating all woodworks and 2 good coats of emulsion on the walls and ceilings. Now obviously for a smaller room this would be much quicker and a larger room may run into a second day but as a rough guide it would average at 1 room per day on a full house such as yours, now hanging paper is slightly more time consuming, the room would still require preparation and then the paper hung, for this on an average room I would charge a approx. £280.

assuming you just required emulsion painting in your house and it was a relatively modern property with lower height ceilings and not an old Victorian property where you need to hire a cherry picker to change a light bulb! I would estimate your interior labour to be approx. £2000 however I would love to know where the guy gets his materials from because that to me appears very cheap.

by the way I am not touting for work as you are too far for me to travel as I am in Lancashire, again as has been said before location does often play a part in labour prices.

derby01 wrote: »

Hi £4600 is a bit steep to do the work that you require.
I am a small decorating firm, i would price this job to be no more than £3000.
If you would like to get in touch with me send me a e-mail to [EMAIL="derby0155@yahoo.co.uk"]derby0155@yahoo.co.uk[/EMAIL]:j

I think 4 YEARS on that the work would of been done by now!!!!

I still can't believe that people are commenting on threads that were started nearly 4 yaers ago

While I know its an old thread, it still contains usefull info...

davethedecorator wrote: »

I can polish of an average room in that one day including moderate filling, preparation and minor repairs, inclusive of undercoating all woodworks and 2 good coats of emulsion on the walls and ceilings. .

Dave - not sure if you still use this forum but im curious to know how you can do all that in a day? - not from a time constraight but from a drying time angle?

Coat the ceiling you got a wet edge to dry before the wall is 1st coated, where the two meet, then you have to wait till wall 1st coat dries, before application of second coat, then the second coat has to dry before you can touch the skirts which you will have lapped onto!? - even if you cut in perfect they would have to meet to save any missed area!
just curious!!
Cheers Ste