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I have 5 crittall windows to completely strip and repaint, one of them is 5m long. It’s taken literally a week so far and they are not all ready for primer yet.
I’ll do it properly with degreasing, mordant solution, zinc plumbate primer and metalshield but to pay someone to do this job would be a big chunk of refurb budget and I would imagine it’s several £k to do.Doing it properly as I never want to do it again.
Edit, that’s not to say I don’t appreciate top quality work, quite the opposite.
Have worked with tradesmen in my youth and am self employed so get the ‘can you just’ and ‘it’s a bit expensive’ all the time and that’s dealing with businesses not the general public.
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Ironically this is why your posts make me even less likely to hire painter decorators.
Hearing what goes into a quality job, I can't bare the idea of paying someone to do an average job - that I could probably do myself. Plus we don't have a good enough finish on the walls to warrant paying someone excellent.