doing up costs

nat38

I know that it may vary according to areas etc etc but could any one give me a rough idea of how much would it be to do the walls (remove wall paper and paint) in a 3 bed 2 receptions type Victorian house?
Many thanks in advance!

EDIT -I know is the type of job we would normally do ourselves, but unfortunately, we can't at the moment.

gwernybwch

There are few calculators and estimate tools online such as buildingsheriff which should help.

As an estimate, I would say that it would take 1.5 days to remove wallpaper / paint only per room and a labourers rate of £150 per day that would be £225 per room.

But as there are so many variables; location, size of rooms, age and no. of layers of paper and paint, it is almost pulling a figure out of thin air.

You don't say why you want to strip back to the bare walls, but be mindful that as it is a Victorian house it will be doubtful that the walls will still be good enough condition for immediate re-papering or re-painting, therefore you were have to factor in the time or cost of wall preparation or even replastering.

nat38

gwernybwch wrote: »

There are few calculators and estimate tools online such as buildingsheriff which should help.

thanks for the info
I thought there should be something like that
I came across a website once where people gave details and quotes of jobs they got done, but I can't find it again -do you know which one I'm talking about?

gwernybwch wrote: »

As an estimate, I would say that it would take 1.5 days to remove wallpaper / paint only per room and a labourers rate of £150 per day that would be £225 per room.

But as there are so many variables; location, size of rooms, age and no. of layers of paper and paint, it is almost pulling a figure out of thin air.

You don't say why you want to strip back to the bare walls, but be mindful that as it is a Victorian house it will be doubtful that the walls will still be good enough condition for immediate re-papering or re-painting, therefore you were have to factor in the time or cost of wall preparation or even replastering.

I just don't like wall paper...
but you're right - very likely that they will need replastering too

phill99

I run a property maintenance company. Removing wallpaper can take a day, but it could be as many as four days given the number of layers, type of paper (wood chip is the devils own job). Steam stripping will invariably bring off plaster and will require skimming, in part or whole. Allow say £100 a day for stripping. A reskim will be £250 - £500 and for redecoration allow 1.5 to 2 days per room at £120 -£150 a day.

nat38

phill99 wrote: »

I run a property maintenance company. Removing wallpaper can take a day, but it could be as many as four days given the number of layers, type of paper (wood chip is the devils own job). Steam stripping will invariably bring off plaster and will require skimming, in part or whole. Allow say £100 a day for stripping. A reskim will be £250 - £500 and for redecoration allow 1.5 to 2 days per room at £120 -£150 a day.

many thanks!
so just to clarify, it'd be max 1000 per room (200 (if stripping takes say 2 days) + 500 + 300 (2 days at 150)

phill99

nat38 wrote: »

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many thanks!
so just to clarify, it'd be max 1000 per room (200 (if stripping takes say 2 days) + 500 + 300 (2 days at 150)

Use that as an outside figure.

ognum

If this is a Victorian house removing the wall paper can often mean the wall disintegrate and you end up replastering so beware!

geoffky

Our 4 bed 3 bath and 3 reception rooms cost us £1100 and took a week for two pro painters...

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Remember though that its often only when u strip using a steam wallpaper stripper u lose areas of plaster. I actually stopped using a steam stripper because of this problem. For me its just as quick to strip wallpaper with water (as long as u score the paper but u'd have to do this with a steam stripper too)- and u don't lose large areas of plaster! I'd specify this to any person hired to do the job if you can.

I think for most people, they just associate using a steam stripper with wallpaper stripping and no one uses water anymore. I've done a number of houses and have not found I'm any slower using just water no matter how many layers of wallpaper/paint there are.

KateLiana27

geoffky wrote: »

Our 4 bed 3 bath and 3 reception rooms cost us £1100 and took a week for two pro painters...

Yes, our 3 bed 2 receptions 1930s semi cost us £1200 for exactly the same as you're describing (not ceilings though, and we supplied paint). 2-man job. We went with handymen rather than professional decorators but they did an amazing job. We didn't need a skim but they did use some sort of compound on the walls to smooth things out and then sanded.

I was getting a bit freaked out by the numbers being thrown around - £1000 per room?! I accept Victorian houses may have walls in worse condition under the paper but still... Get a few quotes, and don't assume you need the services of a professional decorator to strip wallpaper. It's a donkey job (though I don't blame you for not doing it - we tried and almost lost the will the live).

Basically, a lot depends on the condition of the walls underneath, so you might want to test strip a bit of one room to see what's what.

geoffky

KateLiana27 wrote: »

Yes, our 3 bed 2 receptions 1930s semi cost us £1200 for exactly the same as you're describing (not ceilings though, and we supplied paint). 2-man job. We went with handymen rather than professional decorators but they did an amazing job. We didn't need a skim but they did use some sort of compound on the walls to smooth things out and then sanded.

I was getting a bit freaked out by the numbers being thrown around - £1000 per room?! I accept Victorian houses may have walls in worse condition under the paper but still... Get a few quotes, and don't assume you need the services of a professional decorator to strip wallpaper. It's a donkey job (though I don't blame you for not doing it - we tried and almost lost the will the live).

Basically, a lot depends on the condition of the walls underneath, so you might want to test strip a bit of one room to see what's what.

Thankfully our house had never been wallpapered but the did have to use grout or whatever it is as there was some hairline cracks in one of the walls..come to think of it, we paid for the paint extra as well.