hi so are a normal 3 bed room home what sort of money am i looking at to strip and paint.
looking at a house where the paint is getting flaky

dadtofive - 2021-08-15 20:22:00

Hi Dad to five from Dad to 1, its a tricky one I own a painting business, but basically expect to strip a house to cost not much less than to paint one, if its a standard 100 sqm weatherboard with timber windows to do standard prep and paint is usually about $8,500 gst inc but it depends would vary throughout NZ, to strip it expect maybe 5-6k but once again it does vary. whatever you do stay away from colours that are dark and have a high LRV rating , it says on swatches but talk to shop, if its under 40 you will get blistering and the boards from the timber expanding and contracting , make sure you get someone with good reviews and ask the paint shop for recommendations, cheapest isnt always best and you want it to last

daz1968 - 2021-08-15 20:47:00

If it is a real old dunga, and the paint is really flaking, can one just go around with a water blaster and bung on some resene lumbersider, like I did on my deck?

tygertung - 2021-08-16 08:09:00

daz1968 wrote:

standard 100 sqm weatherboard with timber windows to do standard prep and paint is usually about $8,500 gst inc

The paint itself will be about $500 ish.
It's pretty much all labour. So either save up or DIY.

lythande1 - 2021-08-16 08:31:00

I have a three-bedroomed single storey board and "roughcast" (or whatever it is called) mixed material home. I paid a professional to do the lot for $15,000. It sounds a lot, but he did a brilliant and thorough job - much more than I would have been willing (or able) to do myself. He told me that he is constantly being called upon to repaint houses that owners or "someone's mate" have done a DIY on, only a couple or years or so later because the preparation wasn't done properly and it was all going bad. He gave my house three coats of paint after a very thorough prep job, and the work is flawless. For me it was money well spent because I know it will last many years and will be a very good selling point should I have to move on for whatever reason. My house is only 11 years old - I have owned it for five years - but the tradie told me that it was not properly done in the first place, being part of a development that bought up a large section and subdivided. He reckoned it had only had one or two coats and was shoddily done, saying this is the case with a lot of houses like that. I chose him on the basis of his reviews - he has his own business and takes a great deal of pride in his work. No regrets. I appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay that sort of money but for me it was the sensible choice. To sum up, if you cannot afford to get a professional to do it for you, at the very least make sure you do the preparation work well, don't skimp on the materials, and don't take short cuts. Otherwise it could be false economy in the long run.

kitty179 - 2021-08-16 09:30:00

Is it better to do three coats? Our house is going to be reclad soon, so should I bung on three coats rather than the two. It will be primered first.

tygertung - 2021-08-16 11:40:00

We have a 3 bdrm 1940s single weather board 110sqm. We had quotes ranging from 12 - 18k for strip and paint. We ended up doing ourselves and ended up using heatguns and striping right back to the rimu. 3 top coats and I included box corners and scribers. Took the 2 of us 2.5wks from start to finish and total cost was approx $1000. It was actually quite enjoyable ????

gazvic - 2021-08-16 18:36:00

gazvic wrote:

We have a 3 bdrm 1940s single weather board 110sqm. We had quotes ranging from 12 - 18k for strip and paint. We ended up doing ourselves and ended up using heatguns and striping right back to the rimu. 3 top coats and I included box corners and scribers. Took the 2 of us 2.5wks from start to finish and total cost was approx $1000. It was actually quite enjoyable ????

Sounds like you did a thorough job. Good on you. I wouldn't be able to do it myself - there's only me, and I'm not keen on ladders, being on anticoagulants and at risk of a haemorrhage if I have a fall. So it was a professional for me.

kitty179 - 2021-08-16 20:59:00

kitty179 wrote:

Sounds like you did a thorough job. Good on you. I wouldn't be able to do it myself - there's only me, and I'm not keen on ladders, being on anticoagulants and at risk of a haemorrhage if I have a fall. So it was a professional for me.

There comes a time when it's better to be safe than sorry and employ a professional. A very fit family member, still working mid 70s, decided to paint his roof. He was found dead on the ground, had a heart attack but we don't know if he had the heart attack on the roof which caused the fall or when he came down to get more paint then had the attack. Paying people if you can afford it is far safer, gives them a job and we can't take it with us when we depart this world.

kacy5 - 2021-08-17 00:45:00

I painted my dad's house when I was 16 and paying off my first motorbike. It was a white house in Dunedin's Summer (I did have sunnies on). Dad paid me $2 / hour!! Before there were slave labour immigrants in NZ there were desperate teenagers.

trogedon - 2021-08-19 15:46:00

trogedon wrote:

I painted my dad's house when I was 16 and paying off my first motorbike. It was a white house in Dunedin's Summer (I did have sunnies on). Dad paid me $2 / hour!! Before there were slave labour immigrants in NZ there were desperate teenagers.

Haha. I hope you were more thorough than my son would have been at that age. He was (and is) a short-cut merchant. I embarrassed him once by telling him that his love life was going to be a disaster if he employed the same tactics.

kitty179 - 2021-08-19 15:53:00

kitty179 wrote:

Haha. I hope you were more thorough than my son would have been at that age. He was (and is) a short-cut merchant. I embarrassed him once by telling him that his love life was going to be a disaster if he employed the same tactics.

I don't remember a lot of sanding.... I hope the word foreplay is in his vocabulary!!

trogedon - 2021-08-19 16:33:00

trogedon wrote:

I don't remember a lot of sanding.... I hope the word foreplay is in his vocabulary!!

for most kids these days foreplay is just cracking a Woody….

sparkychap - 2021-08-19 16:36:00

kitty179 wrote:

I have a three-bedroomed single storey board and "roughcast" (or whatever it is called) mixed material home. I paid a professional to do the lot for $15,000. It sounds a lot, but he did a brilliant and thorough job - much more than I would have been willing (or able) to do myself. He told me that he is constantly being called upon to repaint houses that owners or "someone's mate" have done a DIY on, only a couple or years or so later because the preparation wasn't done properly and it was all going bad. He gave my house three coats of paint after a very thorough prep job, and the work is flawless. For me it was money well spent because I know it will last many years and will be a very good selling point should I have to move on for whatever reason. My house is only 11 years old - I have owned it for five years - but the tradie told me that it was not properly done in the first place, being part of a development that bought up a large section and subdivided. He reckoned it had only had one or two coats and was shoddily done, saying this is the case with a lot of houses like that. I chose him on the basis of his reviews - he has his own business and takes a great deal of pride in his work. No regrets. I appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay that sort of money but for me it was the sensible choice. To sum up, if you cannot afford to get a professional to do it for you, at the very least make sure you do the preparation work well, don't skimp on the materials, and don't take short cuts. Otherwise it could be false economy in the long run.

is he in Christchurch - they asked hopefully

jamesnmatt - 2021-08-19 16:51:00