We just got bids back on from several contractors from our reno and one (of many) numbers that stuck out was the estimate for painting. The contractors said it’s because of the skim coating specified by our architect. Is skim coating something we should definitely do? If so, any idea what a reasonable range would be to skim coat and paint about 2300 sq. ft. of new walls? Thanks!


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  1. Thanks so much for all of the replies! It sounds like for new walls skim coating is not generally necessary unless we want to go to a much higher level of quality of finished product. We’re meeting again with the architect this week to discuss a gameplan for the construction and you can be sure skim coating will be discussed.

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