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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Everything you do yourself for the first time takes at least 4 times longer than a professional, I'm convinced. Like I say, without feeling guilty for spending money on trades, I'd hire almost everything out. That said, after staining a bunch of crap this summer, painting is now the first one I will never do again if possible.
Any rough idea of how much of your quote was for baseboards? I'd need just the walls, and I'm hoping that was a large chunk of your quote  I'm probably not doing it for a year, just curious though. |
Honestly, the baseboards wasn't a huge chunk of it. Probably less than $1K. I'm sure you could find a happy medium between who I hired and some hack so don't let that price scare you too much.
Another thing this guy did was take off every door and closet door in the whole house and paint them in my garage. I doubt most painters would be as extreme as this dude was and that added to the cost.
I'm just saying don't let that price scare you off looking into painters - it was definitely on the high end. And for reference, I live in a 1400 sf bungalow (about 2100 finished square feet), so adjust that price up or down based on the size of your place.
Sorry for the world's lamest hijack, Pylon.