Are professional painters worthwhile? Or do it yourself?

  • Erstellt am 2018-09-05 15:07:39

Nordlys

2018-09-06 13:11:55
  • #1
Maybe so. My brother, master painter, doesn’t do that, he or his people do the sh... work, the painting is then done personally by Mr. and Mrs. Graf von Fürst, and he is not allowed to sell the paint either, that comes from OBI, he doesn’t take such jobs. All or nothing, but as I said, there may be some who are not ashamed of anything.
 

halmi

2018-09-06 13:34:47
  • #2
aha, if someone now wants an offer for spackling in Q3, your brother says "no, no interest. nothing works without painting!". Interesting story.

Painting or wallpapering done independently is really not unusual at all. Probably the number 1 in self-performed work.
 

Snowy36

2018-09-09 19:28:41
  • #3
The painter wanted 9000 euros for inside and outside .... I wouldn't necessarily have dared the outside because of the height .... inside I gladly pay the 4500, with exposed roof trusses and 4m high ceilings ... you have to do 2 coats anyway, first with primer and then with paint .... 980 sqm wall with about 170 sqm living area is about 14 buckets of paint and primer which alone costs 1700 euros in materials

Does anyone know if you have to have it painted white first to be able to paint it in color? Or can you go straight to color after priming?
 

Caspar2020

2018-09-09 20:02:38
  • #4


It depends on the shade of color to be used and the surface.

We used Profitec primer paint. In other words, primer that is white pigmented.

ProfiTec-Grundierfarbe-WP-P818-white-pigmented

We also used this under patterned non-woven wallpapers (because they often have the problem that patterns and such may show through if the background is not even).
 

Snowy36

2018-09-09 20:20:45
  • #5
 

Winniefred

2018-09-12 18:13:36
  • #6
After I almost single-handedly puttyed the entire house last year, replastered some areas, primed everywhere twice, and either painted or wallpapered, I can say: yes, it’s doable. But it takes time, it’s exhausting (the ceilings! Holy cow, your arms get tired after a while!) and at least the cleaning and puttying don’t look like a professional job. It doesn’t bother us, it’s good enough for us, and in the short term there were no craftsmen available anyway, so we saved a tremendous amount of money. But honestly; at some point I was really fed up and grateful for every helper — in some places I ended up working up to six times (replastered, puttied, primed twice, undercoated once, final coat, sometimes even smoothing transitions with acrylic). If you have the money, I would personally prefer to hire a professional. If you have enough helpers who have done this before, then give it a try. First get some practice in the less important rooms and in the end tackle the living room and kitchen^^.

By the way, everything with stuff from the hardware store. All the materials survived and can still be used. So crepe tape, acrylic, primer, paint, brushes, rollers, telescopic poles, gypsum plaster, putty, and textured plaster.
 

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