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03-22-2024, 8:51am | #1 | ||||||
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Painting, exterior house…. Trim doors and windows.
The weather is about to warm up and it’s time to paint my rental. I bought the first 2 gallons of Sherwin Williams top Emerald brand. I was able to get a jump start a week or so ago, cleaned the gutters and power washed the building and patios.
Should be fairly easy for me, but the ladder time is certainly going to be painful(old ankle fractures)…. The high rake boards and soffits will probably be too high for me so I’ll hire a friend for a couple days. Thankfully I installed pre painted Hardy Plank siding, power washing is all that’s necessary on the flats. Wish me luck! |
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Good for you that you can do the painting. As a retired construction worker that has decades of ladder and scaffold time I no longer can climb so painting work (among other things) is out of the question.
Balance is not good and when I get more that a couple feet up a ladder I get dizzy. As long as I can write out a check or use a CC it will get done! |
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I've got a rental that's (over)due for paint on the rakes & soffits. Since thery're 3 stories up, that's in my NFW category, even if I had the time to do it myself.
I got a couple painting estimates last year and they were $10K+, just for that trim. So I'm going another route and having them wrapped with aluminium this spring. It'll look just as good if not better, and I won't need to worry about them again....plus I'll save over $3K. |
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Good luck.
I should have done mine, but the wife called a painter last week, they showed up yesterday, 4 doods, 3 hours of work, finished, cost $3K. They did a good job. My math, paint was $400, 12 hour labor at $30/per, total cost =/-$800. Owner made $2,200. If owner can do ten houses each week, he grosses $1.15M, not a bad gig. |
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I bought one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Giant-...s%2C103&sr=1-4 Super stable IF you buy the accessory work platform and haven't found anything I couldn't safely reach with it. HOWEVER, at 73, I'm not doing some jobs anymore; like replacing my high screens - bonded and insured pros for such things. My pool is 6' off the ground so that is in addition to the part of the ladder visible. |
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Just hire some Mexicans or OTM's running around. Does not appear to be any in short supply.
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So far my new house build is 100% white country boys (men). One black guy was the block masons helper and he too is a conservative country man. Pretty much a given that the insulation and drywall hangers will be Hispanic men but the businesses in those cases are legit and the crew are all legal. |
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Painting our house is on the "to do" list very soon!
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My drywall guy I have done business with for 30 years and his hanger crew are legit. Juan and Pedro (actual names) have been with him for most of those years. Other than being alcoholics they are pretty good guys. |
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It was a bit funny seeing those little guys dragging a framing hammer hanging from a holster on their belt through the snow. They were decent to be around and I got to admit from what I saw very good workers. They moved fast but on lot of items it took two of them to move it around. Two were having a hard time moving a very big sliding glass door outfit. I told the one at the back to let me take over and I put my 5'11'' 230# behind the door and made fast work of getting it slid into the building. |
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Later this year I will be painting my new house. 4300 sq ft total under roof and all Hardie board & batton. Multiple gables and rooflines. I will be contracting it out. Being new there will be a lot of caulking and putty work. I will probably use KDAT for window and door trim. The soffit and facia/eave will be vinyl and metal.
Way too much work for me to handle. |
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I don't do a ladder more than a few feet off the ground. Reaction time over 50 is not like being a young guy.
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If I can not get a nice wide scaffolding or a mechanical lift to access a work area comfortably, I'd rather pay the man and find something below head high to work on.
For investment properties, there is always a handyman nearby that's willing to do stuff for cheaper than the market price. More often than not, done quite well. YMMV |
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Hence my remark about bonded and insured; let some transient Latino fall down and break something and you'll be mortgaging your house to pay them and their slip and fall lawyers off.
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