House painting recommendations

[Jer]

After you get estimates contact your local Sherwin Williams to see when their half off sale is coming up and I think it's next weekend. We got quotes that ranged from $6,000-$9,000 (throwing out the absurd ones that were even higher than that) and ended up doing it ourselves (just my wife and I) over a few days for a cost of less than $500 ($440 as I recall) using their 2nd to the highest quality paint. I own sprayers & rollers & such but we ended up doing the entire thing with brushes by hand and I'm confident the job we did will last an awful long time. If you can make the time on a weekend or maybe even bribe some friends w/beer & food and plan to do it when the weather is nice it's not that bad at all really. Just drink water, work with the shade (read: West side in the morning and East side in the afternoon) it's a great way to save some serious money with the prices painting place try to charge these days.

[Irving]

I'd probably laugh at a $6,000 quote to paint most houses.

[Jer]

I'd probably laugh at a $6,000 quote to paint most houses.

I did. This is why we painted it ourselves. The quotes our neighbors were getting was the same. It was absurd. Maybe everyone was painting their house a few years ago and nobody had the time but everybody was charging absurd prices.

[Erni]

6k for a single story?

[Jer]

6k for a single story?

Ours is a ranch, yes. There are some tall sections due to the land but it's still largely a single story. Also, some of our neighbors are 2-story and those tended to be the higher quotes but still.

[avandelay]

I had Beyond the Brush Painters do the painting on my 2-story home. They came in several hundred less than Vivax and did a great job.

ETA - I did try a couple of local businesses before I went with Beyond the Brush. One had all of his painters quit and the other didn't bother to show for a quote.

[Irving]

I've been getting ridiculous quotes for interior paint jobs lately ($2,200 for half of a living room) so I'm not surprised to hear that exterior quotes are just as absurd. I'm new to this market but it still seems out of whack to me.

[Mtn.man]

Costco:
Brisket, Burgers, Dogs
Beer
HD:
Paint
Brushes, rent sprayer
Phone, Email, Text:
Friends
Family

Cook out, paint, Bam. A Whole lot less than any quotes you get.

[Hound]

Used them also. They did a good job but with ANY of them you really need to be home. If I had not been able to watch and have them toe the line I would not have gotten everything agreed to. The end result was great. Again, I think they all need to watched.

I used Vivax as well.