The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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Anyone paint their exterior of the house lately? Its on my list for this year... fairly large house (and the previous company took shortcuts because I was overseas at the time, didn't clean walls properly, no undercoat,etc) :(
 
xrapidx said:
Anyone paint their exterior of the house lately? Its on my list for this year... fairly large house (and the previous company took shortcuts because I was overseas at the time, didn't clean walls properly, no undercoat,etc) :(
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It's on my radar for the near future too. I actually want to resurface everything as it's that really rough texture they've done on the walls and I'm not a fan. The problem is finding a contractor that won't bugger it up.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
It's on my radar for the near future too. I actually want to resurface everything as it's that really rough texture they've done on the walls and I'm not a fan. The problem is finding a contractor that won't bugger it up.
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Cheaper to re-plaster the wall than trying to grind / sand it flat.
 
xrapidx said:
Anyone paint their exterior of the house lately? Its on my list for this year... fairly large house (and the previous company took shortcuts because I was overseas at the time, didn't clean walls properly, no undercoat,etc) :(
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I did mine a year ago. Quote was for 240sq/m. R100k
 
Tinuva said:
Ouch.

Something that amazed me on YouTube not too long ago. I watched a YouTuber doing his own concrete, and he planned for the future cracks by adding indents or lines on purpose, with the intention, to let the cracks happen on that line. Not sure if it worked, but thought damn that's ingenious.
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Expansion joints.
Been around since stacco was first used....
 
xrapidx said:
Anyone paint their exterior of the house lately? Its on my list for this year... fairly large house (and the previous company took shortcuts because I was overseas at the time, didn't clean walls properly, no undercoat,etc) :(
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I do this for a living, what do you want to know?
 
W@P said:
I did mine a year ago. Quote was for 240sq/m. R100k
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You paid R100k to have an area of 240m2 painted?

Can't be.

Do you mean the house floor area is 240m2 and you had the walls painted and it came to R100k.

If so, that tells us nothing ~ there is no relation between floor area and the wall surface area....
 
Mannydefreitas said:
You paid R100k to have an area of 240m2 painted?

Can't be.

Do you mean the house floor area is 240m2 and you had the walls painted and it came to R100k.

If so, that tells us nothing ~ there is no relation between floor area and the wall surface area....
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Way I read it 100,000 / 240 = 416m2

I've never actually worked out the wall m2 of a property, so no idea if that's a realistic number.

I'll probably do it over the weekend. My house has many corners, so a pain to do
 
Mannydefreitas said:
You paid R100k to have an area of 240m2 painted?

Can't be.

Do you mean the house floor area is 240m2 and you had the walls painted and it came to R100k.

If so, that tells us nothing ~ there is no relation between floor area and the wall surface area....
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I think he was referring to replastering.
 
Mannydefreitas said:
Anything from R85 to R120/m2.
I charge around R108 to R112.
That's includes doing proper prep, pressure washing and painting with very good 12 year guarantee paint.
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Appreciated.

My house was painted four years ago and looks like crap (peeling at windows, paint coming off various walls, etc), so I'd like to get it done properly this time round.

Out of interest, what is the sqm wall wise of a mid to large size house? (Floor sqm is around 300m2 - but with higher than average outside walls because flat roof and parapit walls)
 
Hi @Mannydefreitas do you have any opinion on this paint
www.prominentpaints.co.za

Select Sheen - Prominent Paints

A low VOC high quality velvet smooth acrylic sheen emulsion for interior & exterior walls.
www.prominentpaints.co.za www.prominentpaints.co.za

A contractor painted the exterior of my house last year with it and he claims it is better than wall and all. I'm sceptical as the guarantee is only 7 years. Seems to be holding up alright so far
 
Mannydefreitas said:
You paid R100k to have an area of 240m2 painted?

Can't be.

Do you mean the house floor area is 240m2 and you had the walls painted and it came to R100k.

If so, that tells us nothing ~ there is no relation between floor area and the wall surface area....
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Hi Manny

Good to see you here. I remember you from another forum.
I quoted what was in my quote for the work. It's the outside walls.
They did lots of repair work and waterproofing and undercoats etc. Removed the gutters and painted the fascia boards.

They did rip me a new one I am aware of that. But the work looks good as far as I can tell.
Won't use them again. Lesson learned.
 
xrapidx said:
Appreciated.

My house was painted four years ago and looks like crap (peeling at windows, paint coming off various walls, etc), so I'd like to get it done properly this time round.

Out of interest, what is the sqm wall wise of a mid to large size house? (Floor sqm is around 300m2 - but with higher than average outside walls because flat roof and parapit walls)
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Impossible to answer.
Like saying, "I use R1500 in petrol per week, is my car heavy on fuel?"
 
ny152 said:
Hi @Mannydefreitas do you have any opinion on this paint
www.prominentpaints.co.za

Select Sheen - Prominent Paints

A low VOC high quality velvet smooth acrylic sheen emulsion for interior & exterior walls.
www.prominentpaints.co.za www.prominentpaints.co.za

A contractor painted the exterior of my house last year with it and he claims it is better than wall and all. I'm sceptical as the guarantee is only 7 years. Seems to be holding up alright so far
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I ONLY use Prominent Paints.
That Select Sheen is very good paint.
You'll be OK.

I, more and more, paint people's exterior walls with Premium Roof Paint 12 year Guarantee..
 
Looks I've never really been going me to judge a person by their ability to be accurate on quote...

Anyway thoughts on the quote below - it's around 350sqm of steel roof with a 20 off degree pitch.

This quote excludes materials - and I own the scaffolding the charge noted is to setup and dismantle my own...

This worked out to 5x the cost of the next quote. Also I have my own industrial size pressure cleaner.



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Mosgi said:
Looks I've never really been going me to judge a person by their ability to be accurate on quote...

Anyway thoughts on the quote below - it's around 350sqm of steel roof with a 20 off degree pitch.

This quote excludes materials - and I own the scaffolding the charge noted is to setup and dismantle my own...

This worked out to 5x the cost of the next quote. Also I have my own industrial size pressure cleaner.



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To be fair, if I was a painting contractor I wouldn't want to use any of the client's tools to do the job, I would refuse to use it and bring my own. Less potential liability headaches.
 
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