Painting/general handyman costs

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I have a rental unit that needs a good paint, filling in of holes left by picture hooks, etc. Does anyone know what the going rate is for that kind of thing? I need to have some basis on which to judge quotes. Given the time of year and the urgency of the job, I may not be able to get too many quotes.

Also recommendations of anyone available to do this job? It's a small townhouse in Robindale, Randburg. Two-bed, one-bath, around 69 sq metres.
 
How many Sqm of wall. . How many rooms.. what type of paint etc etc..

Those will be your figures to work out if the quote is fair or not
 
ToxicBunny said:
How many Sqm of wall. . How many rooms.. what type of paint etc etc.. Those will be your figures to work out if the quote is fair or not
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Help! I have no idea how much paint will be required. I guess I need to go and measure all the walls? Could you make an educated guess, just for a ballpark figure, on a 69 squ metre standard open-plan townhouse built in the late 1990s? Open-plan kitchen and living room, one full bathroom, two smallish bedrooms? Cheapest possible white paint!

Perhaps just an idea of labour cost, if I buy the materials myself?
 
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Your usual acrylic paint covers 8-10sqm per litre.

Most of these 2 bedroom places are built similarly: rectangle shaped. Since it's 69 sqm I'm going to assume it's 10m by 7m? Well it doesn't really matter. I'm going to cross that space and divide it into 4 rooms. Standard height is around 2.5m. So without taking cupboards/wall tiles/windows into account you have about 2.5*10*4 + 2.5*7*4 sqm of walls. I would deduct around 20% for wallspace that doesn't need paint so you're looking at 140 squares that you need to cover. I'd say around 15 litres should be enough for a single coat.

Cheapest white paint would be around R250 per 20L. But you really shouldn't use that - in just a few short years you will pay waaaaaay more to fix the place up again. Cheap paint adheres poorly and will leave you with peeling walls. Better paint is around R750 per 20L.

I think a lone painter can do the job in 2 days easy. Maybe even a day but you want to give him time to prepare the walls. Labour cost is difficult to guage because it depends on who you find. A "contractor" might charge around R1000 per day, while a painter that sits outside Builders Warehouse waiting for someone to give him work would do it for R200 or R300 per day. These guys also bring their own rollers. Masking tape and crackfiller might add up to R100-R200.

I'm not a contractor, but did some DIY on a new place recently so I'm going off that :p
 
Almost finished painting my house - been using Game's own paint - yellow can/says silk walls on the can. 3 coats on the walls/ 2 coats on the ceiling. Buy 20L for the walls and 5 liters for the ceilings. - R699 (few tints to choose from, we went with oyster - happy with it and R199 for white ceiling paint - might have been on special. Guess R200 for 50mm brush, roller/tray, masking tape and drop sheets, and pollyfilla. Recon 4 days. day one to do two coats on the ceilling, next three for walls -but thats one person doing a proper job - maybe 2 days for 2 guys - need to be hotish days
 
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