Day rate for painting and decorating???

[IanM]

My wife is great a hanging wallpaper and painting...usually insisits on DIY!

Need our banisters/stairs painted and says I should do it... to be honest I'd rather pay someone while I sit in the home office working and earning, leaving the weekend (when I'd be doing it) to play golf! And to be honest, some local bloke might need the work!

What would a job like that cost do you think?

 

[bobmac]

£200-£250 per day, plus paint. Guess
Probably more.
Why not paint on Saturday and play golf on Sunday x 2

 

[Deleted member 21784]

We paid ours (before found my tamed builder) £150 a day plus materials .. he did our hallway in 3 days

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

That sounds a lot to me Bob. I had a plasterer do my lounge ceiling last year, £100 cash Inc materials and it took him most of the day.

 

[Lump]

Wouldn’t pay day rate. Pay per job.

 

[fundy]

That sounds a lot to me Bob. I had a plasterer do my lounge ceiling last year, £100 cash Inc materials and it took him most of the day.

send me his details will you!!!!!!

where we are you'll do well to find any trade for less than £150 a day and some want £250 a day (sparkys and plumbers mainly!), as has been said id get quotes for the job not a day rate if you can

 

[chrisd]

I did my own and spent the money saved on a holiday

 

[jusme]

Wouldn’t pay day rate. Pay per job.

Agree and the above amounts sound high to me. I take quotes for jobs and the last one was 4 rooms (hall/stairs/landing - roof and walls only, living room including woodwork, bedroom roof and walls only and utility room roof and walls only.) took 5 days and paid £500 labour - worked out £100 a day plus materials

 

[bobmac]

I did say it was a guess...... based on a window fitter who charged me £150 for a days work and that was 5 years ago in Lincolnshire

 

[AmandaJR]

We're just having our hall, stairs, landing, bathroom, downstairs loo painted plus staircase/bannister from dark stain to white gloss. 5 days work at £950 inc paint etc. Quoted for the job so he hopes he might finish Thursday.

 

[richart]

I charge Mrs H £200 a day when I do the decorating. I am pretty good though, so can charge top rate.

 

[Dellboy]

I charge £240 a day + materials, day being 8-4

 

[SocketRocket]

My neighbour did mine while we were on holiday. Hes an out of work Gynecologist, papered the hall and landing through the letter box.

 

[Liverbirdie]

I believe lots of gardeners have gone into this line of work recently......

Sorry, Phil.

 

[Crazyface]

I charge £240 a day + materials, day being 8-4

£30 an hour!!!!!!!! more if you stop for a hours lunch and tea with 5 sugars!!!!!! Bluddy hell fire. Ian I'll do it for you, well, would if I lived nearer. And for a lot less!!! WOW !

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I charge Mrs H £200 a day when I do the decorating. I am pretty good though, so can charge top rate.

So that’s how you manage to afford your hairdressing bill each month 😂😂👍😎

 

[Crazyface]

I charge Mrs H £200 a day when I do the decorating. I am pretty good though, so can charge top rate.

Can you do this??? I don't remember seeing that in the contract!

 

[Marshy77]

Guy who lives 2 doors up from us charges £120 a day not including materials. This is upt north so I'm guessing it will be double that the further south you go.

 

[USER1999]

Why do kids want to waste 3 years, and 30k on going to University to get a 14k a year job in a shoe shop, if you can earn 50k a year painting walls?

 

[Deleted member 21784]

A trade is more useful than a degree in the main for sure

Apprenticeships are the future it how I started and now earn what both my parents earn combined. Learn so much by doing