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    #32
    pickarooney
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    Seriously, if anyone's looking for a painting job, you'd pick up a grand easy for the type of job OP is offering in the South of France.


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    #33
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    thats more like it

    Call in to your local paint shop and ask for a recommended painter's number.


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    #34
    Andy From Sligo
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Seriously, if anyone's looking for a painting job, you'd pick up a grand easy for the type of job OP is offering in the South of France.

    yeah but we not in the south of france :D


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    #35
    Andy From Sligo
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    i remember the days you could get an east european to paint your whole house for 50 quid and still get change for a bag of chips ... they gone awfully expensive these days ...


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    #36
    Mint Sauce
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    €300? Are you sure you told them just the Dormers?


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    #37
    Andy From Sligo
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    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    €300? Are you sure you told them just the Dormers?

    yep - i even pointed at them and made the arch shape . maybe he thought i was going to haggle, you know start high and then come down but i werent in the mood for haggling and just wanted a straight haggle free price, and got quite a shock when he said 300 ... all i could think about was my next electricity bill which could be around the 250euro mark next month....


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    #38
    slavetothegrind
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    i'd say they wised up to exploitation. the eastern europeans we berated unless we were getting cheap labor from them

    But yeah that was a PFO price, we are busy don't need it but if you will give us this feck it we will do it!


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    #39
    Try_harder
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    yep - i even pointed at them and made the arch shape . maybe he thought i was going to haggle, you know start high and then come down but i werent in the mood for haggling and just wanted a straight haggle free price, and got quite a shock when he said 300 ... all i could think about was my next electricity bill which could be around the 250euro mark next month....

    Did you not tell your electricity provider that was very dear and haggle there too??


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    #40
    Andy From Sligo
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    Try_harder wrote: »
    Did you not tell your electricity provider that was very dear and haggle there too??

    oh blimey :rolleyes:


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    #41
    SCOOP 64
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    id say he didn't want the job, knowing you wouldn't pay €300 and couldn't be arse to do it for less.


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    #42
    Archeron
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    Have you considered a large amount of helium balloons and a deckchair? That always works out well. Or you could use Homers makeup gun and pepper the wall with splattered Marge faces from ground level.


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    #43
    donegaLroad
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    Last time I had the whole exterior of my house painted (two storey 2500 sq feet) I paid 800 & that included the paint.... 4 years ago.


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    #44
    Andy From Sligo
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    i'm thinking of hiring a cherry picker now , bleeding do it meself - i know i dont like heights on ladders, but maybe with the stability of a cherry picker i might be ok . - just dont look down eh? :)


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    #45
    donegaLroad
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    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    i'm thinking of hiring a cherry picker now , bleeding do it meself - i know i dont like heights on ladders, but maybe with the stability of a cherry picker i might be ok . - just dont look down eh? :)

    You are right not to take chances with heights. Cherry pickers are safe. If you hire one for a day you could clean out your gettering, even put two coats of paint on the dormers and other high parts of the house.

    Coming off a ladder 20 feet up would result in serious injury.


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    #46
    Donald Trump
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