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10-04-2018 5:42pm#1couple of doors up from us having their whole outside of the house painted in masonry paint.
2 fellas , big ladders, painting it with roller. Wife says to me do us a favour Andy will you pop down and ask how much they would charge to paint our 2 Dormer parts upstairs that jut out from the roof , just the front.
Last summer I had painted all the house and wall around the house bar the upstairs dormer bits because of 2 reasons , I dont have high enough ladders and even if i did I get vertigo going up a ladder that high (yeah I know I am a wuss!)
popped down there "Hi, how ya doing?" - sorry to disturb you, I am just from a few doors up (well they would know that because they have seen me in front garden and waved a couple of times) - how much would you charge to paint just the dormer bits on my house - explained that I cannot get up there with my ladder that it wont reach, dont need whole house painted as I done the rest last summer and its fine..... bit of silence , he followed me to front of house he was painting at and I pointed to the dormer bits poking out "just them bits I said, just at the front of the house" and then he spoke (shouldn't generalise) but it was in an eastern european accent (could have been Polish or Lithuanian but I can never tell the difference in the accents myself ) 300 he said .... I said just the bits at the top (making an arch/dormer shape) he nodded, I said and me supplying the paint? and no powerwashing or anything? - yes he said. "OK thanks, I shall have to save up some money" I said - took his number anyway.
Goes back to our own house , wife shouts down "well?" - 300 quid I says! .. your joking , no, I'm deadly serious - and you did say it was just the upstairs dormer bits only - yep?
i mean, its got to be an hour of painting at the most ... I know how much I managed to paint in an hour ..... with a brush! - "50quid tops thats what I thought you were gonna say" mrs says, me too to be honest.
Again shouldnt generalise but I thought seeing as they had ladders already in situ 2 doors up and could just walk over carrying the ladders and i just thought they might do cash in hand or something (again sorry for generalising) .
Now, I know all the other caveats that I shouldnt be a tight wad, and that I shouldnt underestimate their work and time and labour and expertise and all that .. and that if the people who pay for a whole house paint will feel done if they only charge 50 quid to do our dormer bits - I know all that and appreciate that - but i just suppose its shock of how much they said they will charge for doing such a small job.
ah, well I suppose the only way it is going to get painted now is to try and find an 'odd job' bloke who wants to earn enough for a few pints and and not afraid to go up high on a ladder - other than that it will have to stay unpainted like it has for the last 6 months or so
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pickarooney wrote: »You could probably buy a ladder for 50 quid. Is your wife also a wuss or could she do it?
show me a high ladder you can buy for 50 quid (one thats not falling to bits or dangerous)
yes, she most probably would go up there she not a wuss like me , she goes co-steering and everything and next wants to try that high up wire thing 0 -
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Try_harder wrote: »Would you do a job for €100? What would you do for it?
hell yeah! , what a job under an hour? .. with all stuff like paint brushes and paint supplied - show me the way (as long as its not high up
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punisher5112 wrote: »Oh and go back down to the guys and tell them you would do it for €50.
If they are a legitimate set up they would need to be charging that for vat and tax purposes.
They would be lucky to come out with half of that. 0 -
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punisher5112 wrote: »I'll do it for €250 I'll only drop the the €50 if the wife's hot though.....
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