how much would I pay someone to wallpaper?

typhoon

the time has come to decorate our living room but we are both useless at papering and wanted to get someone in, but have no idea what they would charge. I would imagine that they charge by the roll? Does anyone know what I would expect to pay? It would even be a day's work as we only want one wall done but it's a tricky one with a shaped fireplace etc. thanks in advance. also any recommendations for newtownabbey area would be great!

Pretani

as far as I remember I was charged £12/roll about 10 years ago. As you only have one wall that price could increase a lot. I had 7 rolls to wallpaper and he was finished in 4-5hrs. Hope that helps!

impulse

If there is a lot of cutting needing to be done its obviously going to take more time and hence be more expensive than a straight wall with no obstacles on a quote per roll

Money_Grabber13579

Probably about £150 per days work I would say was reasonable. You could probably get around 10 rolls done in that length of time.

Golden_Anemone

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

Probably about £150 per days work I would say was reasonable. You could probably get around 10 rolls done in that length of time.

That works out at an annual salary of £34,500 for a 5 day week taking 4 weeks holidays and 10 bank holidays. :eek: I think I'm in the wrong profession!

Money_Grabber13579

You tried getting a plumber or electrician? From my experience, there aren't many people who'll hang wallpaper these days - everyone just paints!

Golden_Anemone

I'm lucky then that I can do my own then. My ex is a decorator and I always wallpapered while he did the painting.

Seriously though, maybe I'm in the minority here and no insult to anyone intended, but surely you need qualifications to be a plumber or electrician but not to be a decorator.

nickcardwell

£10 a roll down in portadown direction.

debs30

Anyone any ideas how much it would cost for me to get my hall,stairs and landing papered.I am in east belfast in a 3 storey house.Have bought 15 rolls but not sure if thats enough,would do it myself only one part of wall is about 12 ft.Anyone know anyone they would recommend.

x12yhp

Also it depends on what sort of paper it is!! If it has a pattern then it is a much harder job. If it is just plain paper then any idiot could do it so you need not pay a fortune.

Golden_Anemone

Gosh, I have an idiot son who is looking for work. Anyone need some plain wallpaper bodged? :rotfl: