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Time allowance for painting a room??
- Thread starter BRENT in 10-uh-C
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rayra
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Most accurate quote yet for how long it takes to paint a room!
Jim
That's even the standard for most 'professional' painters.
Four eight foot walls, no installed trim, electric plates removed, no floors to cover and protect, only the ceiling to cut in.
Rank novice 12 hours to do a decent job.
Amateur. 8 hours
Semi Pro. 6 hours
Pro if he is tall and doesn't need a ladder. 4 hours 4.5 if he does.
If you just want color on the walls and don't care if it gets on everything else and has runs everywhere 3 hours.
I once painted a 12x12 room with 8 foot ceilings on a new construction house prior to finished floor and woodwork in 37 minutes with a brush and roller. That was absolute ideal conditions
On another job I painted a pair of finished 10x10 rooms not including ceiling or woodwork in two hours. 20 minutes of this was removing outlet covers, return air vents, and dusting down spiderwebs.
I haven't used masking tape in 15 years unless spraying
greenskeeper
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Is there a square footage formula for figuring the time allowance for painting one coat onto the walls of a room? For example, if you have a 12'x16' room that is empty, and you are only wanting the walls painted, what is realistic so that a good job can be done??
approximately 2 or 3 beers
Using latex paint small to medium sized room figure a day, trim paint, couple coats, either topcoat topcoat or primer topcoat. Painting over virgin drywall takes like never because it soaks up so much paint. Second coat goes much faster. Tape (if needed) and trim take as long or longer than rolling.
I haven't used masking tape in 15 years unless spraying
I avoid tape as much as possible and have gotten pretty good at meeting an edge or corner quickly. I actually like painting, but absolutely hate taping.
paredown
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Tape for me is usually a quick wrap around outlets (plates off), finished wood trim/baseboard--quick tape + paper from my masking gun and dropcloth underneath. Kitchens/baths--more tape/painters film (I really hate the folks who roll bathrooms and spatter on countertops, baths, toilets etc)
By the time standards mentioned I guess I have hit semipro. If you can wield them, a 24" wet roller on an extension makes ceilings much faster. And I rarely use a ladder, although the trusty drywall bench gets used if I am cutting a line between a flat ceiling paint and wall color.
If I'm working on my own--I can do pretty much any room in a day (assuming walls are in decent shape). Wash with TSP (if needed), roll primer, first color coat in about an hour (assuming good drying conditions). Then a longer drying period, second finish coat. and clean up. Good paint and good prep is key.
We finally found an old school painter for our jobs (we thought). Crew of three guys--they prepped and rolled most of the main floor of a house with a vaulted ceiling in a day--multiple colors/flat ceiling paint, and finished on day two--and did an excellent job. Then the old-timer retires and we still don't have a painter...
By the time standards mentioned I guess I have hit semipro. If you can wield them, a 24" wet roller on an extension makes ceilings much faster. And I rarely use a ladder, although the trusty drywall bench gets used if I am cutting a line between a flat ceiling paint and wall color.
If I'm working on my own--I can do pretty much any room in a day (assuming walls are in decent shape). Wash with TSP (if needed), roll primer, first color coat in about an hour (assuming good drying conditions). Then a longer drying period, second finish coat. and clean up. Good paint and good prep is key.
We finally found an old school painter for our jobs (we thought). Crew of three guys--they prepped and rolled most of the main floor of a house with a vaulted ceiling in a day--multiple colors/flat ceiling paint, and finished on day two--and did an excellent job. Then the old-timer retires and we still don't have a painter...
Leaflessshadetree
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Room size is almost irrelevent unless very small (closet), very large or high ceiling.
2 coats in 1 day, (including moving furniture). I can usually do 2 rooms in the same amount of time. A lot of the time is getting set up, prepping and cleaning up.
2 coats in 1 day, (including moving furniture). I can usually do 2 rooms in the same amount of time. A lot of the time is getting set up, prepping and cleaning up.
rburke65
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This is liking asking ‘how big is big’? In my opinion