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Half&Half
Citizen
Username: Wobeeweybee
Post Number: 13
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:45 pm: | 
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I'm sure this has been posted before, but would someone be so nice to tell us how much would you pay someone to paint the living room? I usually do this but I just don't want to touch another paint brush in the next few months... |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 230
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 6:30 pm: |
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You can pay as little as $300 or so and as much as $1500+. When we first moved here we went with cheap painters and little by little we've hired good painters to come in to fix the damage the other painters did. Cheap wasn't cheap in the long run!
At the very least, good painters should clean the walls, patch and sand them prior to painting - take off all hardware and loosen fixtures, sand all the walls again prior to the second coat and not leave drips or splatter marks. A really good painter takes apart the (old) windows and paints the windows out of the jambs, if the release screws aren't painted over it makes a huge difference in appearance and smooth functioning of the window.
The rooms that we've repainted are so nice, the rooms that the painters just slopped the paint on look messy - the plaster walls have cracks, windows still stick and the demarcation lines between colors are all over the place. |
jab
Citizen
Username: Jab
Post Number: 195
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 7:22 pm: |
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Lydia, can you tell us what painter you used that can take apart the old windows as part of the job? Thanks. |
Lydia
Citizen
Username: Lydial
Post Number: 231
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 10:10 pm: |
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I took apart the old windows by myself with my Mom's help - (my mother owned a painting contracting company) she showed me how to take apart the old windows and paint them the right way. There are screws about 6 inches above the closed window - you loosen them and sort of bow the wood and pull it all out.
There should be painters who do this, but I haven't found them yet - I think if you show a good company how to do it they could. I basically got good painters to spackle and sand and I did the windows on my own. It's basically an old-fashioned method - tomorrow I'm going to ask at my fave hardware store and see if they have any painters who know how to deal with old-fashioned windows. It's a big pain to do it yourself! |
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