I have several rooms I want repainted and my husband is being an ass and doesn't want to help me paint them. My husband told me to just have someone else come out and do it. I have no idea how much they charge. Can anyone who has had someone repaint the inside of their home tell me approximately how much it costs to have a professional do it? I'm having someone come out wednesday to give me an estimate but they are 3 1/2 weeks out on their paint jobs and if I know that it will be super expensive I can cancel their trip out here and just tell my husband it will be a bunch of money and he has to help me paint. :innocent:
Disclaimer, I haven't read the whole thread. While I wouldn't call myself a professional, I did paint for a living along with remodeling for about a year. Honestly, there's going to be a massive pricing disparity in painting contractors. There's such low barriers of entry to starting a painting company... you'll never quite know what to expect from an initial quote. Nor does price always reflect quality.
Are your walls pretty standard?
Do you have intricate Crown Molding, baseboards, etc? $
Honestly, how are the conditions of your walls? Proper prep is massively time consuming for luxurious finishes.
Cathedral ceilings... $
If they have to paint with furniture in the room and/or move it themselves... $
What size rooms, are we talking about?
Our walls are flat, no texture. We paid extra for them to leave the texture off because they caulk and texture EVERYTHING here in Texas. It was a big mistake because the flaws are magnified and they apparently don't know how to do it correctly here in Texas. Where we have already painted my husband has fix everywhere there is an obvious flaw. The areas where we haven't painted he will most likely fix things like nail pops and such. But our walls are in pretty good shape as is (as in there are no dents or scratches from children running into them, etc.).
We don't have cathedral ceilings but we do have higher than standard ceilings. Our ceiling in our family room is like 14 ft and the rest of the areas except one hallway is 11 ft (the other hallway is 14 ft like the family room). The dining room is really just two walls (the shorter of the two has a window) and another short wall that is about 4.5 ft. The rest of the room is open. Sq. ft of the dining room is about 11.5 x 14
My entryway is approx. 14 x 8 ish. The only area that has walls in the entry is above all the doorways. The study is 12 x 12.5. I want only the yellow in that room painted which is three walls with a window. My family room is 22.5 x 17 (with 13 ft ceilings). One wall is a only about 11.25 ft because the rest of that wall is open to the kitchen and another wall is is about 8 ft because the rest of that wall is open to the entry. I have 4 ceiling to floor windows on the opposite side wall (on the 17 ft wall). Then i have a floor to ceiling stone fireplace on another wall (the 22.5 ft wall) and a small entry on that same wall that goes to my bedroom.
I have no idea how many sq feet my hallways are. We have crown molding in our dining room and entry way and chair rail molding in our dining room as well. We will move the furniture and take down curtains as needed.