Interior painting & decorating

[kazzerb]

Any one have any ideas how much I should be charged to paint my hall, stairs & landing ?? It is wallpapered at present. I want the paper stripped off and then the woodwork glossed and the walls emulsioned.

[WILLWONKER]

You really need to say how much woodwork / doors etc, some indication of size, and bear in mind that as there is wallpaper to be stripped off there will be a lot of preporation to do on the walls to get a good emulsion finish, sometimes it is near on imposible without a reskim of plaster

[WILLWONKER]

Hi zac, for that sort of money it should include stripping as you say that is where the work is, anyone can do the emulsioning thats the easy bit, a good decorater can udercoat and gloss doors with ease.but again size matters, and also remember theres not a great deal of work about at the moment, so the ball is in your court.

[No_Likey]

i recon about a grand..

just think, how long would it take you? a week and a half, so a decorator a week? so youd pay the decorator £750 (£150 a day is reasoanable) and bags for materials

[sahida]

Hi there, am hopping I can get some professional advice here, here we go
I am having the the stairs painted as well as the spindles, all the wood is new, so no stripping is needed, I was told the way to do it is to put two undercoat, which is water base an 3rd coat to be oil base undercoat before applying 2 coats of oil based satin wood, the only thing is that I have gone an got dulux diamond satin wood trade paint which is water base, as I was told that this is they way now to do it ! please can someone out there tell me that this is OK
Also am having the treads varnished in walnut do I need to treat this !
ThanX in advance