What do you think of this painting quote?
We just received an estimate for a paint job for our 2bed/2bath approx 900 sq. ft. apartment. It’s $8,250 which includes labor and materials for a 5-day job with a 5-6 person crew. The job would consist of opening cracks and blistering paint as necessary; priming; filling patches, spot-priming, and applying 2 coats of paint….
We just received an estimate for a paint job for our 2bed/2bath approx 900 sq. ft. apartment. It’s $8,250 which includes labor and materials for a 5-day job with a 5-6 person crew. The job would consist of opening cracks and blistering paint as necessary; priming; filling patches, spot-priming, and applying 2 coats of paint.
To skimcoat the main living/hall space we’d be looking at an additional $1,750, which could bring our grand total to $10K.
Does this sound about right to folks? High? Low?
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
yep. it’s nuts. $10K for painting a 900 sf apartment?
and why would it take 5-6 people 5 days to paint a 900 SF apartment? that’s 30 days of man-labor.
how long would it take you to do all by yourself, a week? 10 days?
the reason everything costs so much these days is b/c there are so many people WILLING to pay these ridiculous prices. not only willing, but they WANT to pay them, b/c they feel like they have to have the “best” of everything.
does anyone on this board understand that it’s important to get more than one estimate? every day there’s 5 or 6 posts that start out: “I got an estimate for…” and end with: “is this too high?” I mean, quite apart from the fact that we can’t see your project, you have chosen to allow only one professional to see it.
you need to get three estimates for any kind of work, excepting minor emergency repairs. and, when you’re doing this, have a list in your hand with all the job specs on it, so you give each contractor the same info. then you make a decision based on price and gut feeling/recommendations.
that being said, $8K is way, way too high for this job, imho, unless you’re not telling us something, like you’ve got 14-ft. ceilings or something.
I agree with anon 5:02PM… please keep checking around, talk to some more folks that’s just too
much money for painitng and spackling a 900sq. foot unit… trust your gut reaction!
Don’t accuse us of being contractors – I got a quote of 50k to completely paint a 3500 sqft brownstone (all new walls, no skimcoating) – I can email it to whoever asks. So I don’t think 10k is crazy. I didn’t pay 50k because i went the “cheap” route and got handymen types to paint. But the quality isn’t as great. It physically is not possible for me to paint 4 floors of brownstone in 4 days. So i have to pay someone else to do it.
No way would I spend that. No way. Sure they may be professional but give me a break. There are people out there who will do a good job for much less but you have to look around and talk to people.
FYI, a lot of posts one sees here that say various prices aren’t really that high – those come from contractors and other home improvement businesses trying to perpetuate the overspending on places that people do.
This price is too high. Especially when you’ll just have to repair cracks and repaint again in 5 years. Think about it that way. $10,000 every 5 years? Don’t think so. Get the skimcoating done professionally by someone, then prime and paint the place yourself. Painting is not that hard. Especially in a 900 square foot place. Very few professional painters do better jobs than we ourselves will do on our own homes. I have an interior designer friend who painted her entire house herself, for that very reason. For everything else she hired others to do it.
i recommend greg evans (917.574.1222; http://www.paintyourapt.com). he and his partner are totally professional: on time, clean, careful, and trustworthy. they recently painted my two-bedroom apartment in harlem.
best thing is to get more contractors and ask for their estimates,,nowadays most of them offer free estimates..you could try D&H Contracting, they did my entire hallways and two of my apartment on Baltic Street,..give them a call at 7184145363 or you could try the ones on the right.
Thanks for the responses. Would the poster at 9:56 mind sharing the info of the person you used for your paint job?
We had two painters come by and so far this is the first quote we’ve received back. We’re waiting on the other one. We thought $5K would be on the high end and so $8k-$10k surprised us.