Exterior home painting price.

[Deleted member 48080]

Is there anybody in the know on what exterior house painting is costing these days?

Maybe someone here had one painted recently, or know if there's roughly a post-covid $/ft^2 I should be looking for?

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Is there anybody in the know on what exterior house painting is costing these days?

Maybe someone here had one painted recently, or know if there's roughly a post-covid $/ft^2 I should be looking for?

Where are you located

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Is it hips or gables? How many posts/beams? What is the condition of the existing paint? On what kind of siding? Are you in Bozeman or Wichita Kansas? Many factors

 

[Deleted member 48080]

Where are you located

Western Montana.

 

[Hem]

Painting is spendy. Gotta pay for booze, drugs, and pricey sinus scraping.

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

I’ve always painted my own. Growing up I would have to paint either the outside or interior rooms of the house whenever I got into fights and kicked out of school.

Man, I hate painting! Yet as an adult I’ve painted the outside of two of my houses and interiors several times……personal punishment I guess.

I know that doesn’t really answer your question. When we had our porch cover built a couple of years ago I opted to paint it myself as the price almost doubled to have the builders paint it.

 

[T Bone]

Depends on:

-Labor only, or labor and material
-condition of existing paint/exterior
-paint method required/desired. (Sprayed, sprayed and back-rolled, rolled and brushed)

My recommendations:
-If you're staying in the house, get quality paint ($50+/gallon).
-don't spray only...minimum spray/backroll
-get three or four quotes

Good luck!

 

[mtmuley]

Western Montana.

I can reccomend painters without the baggage Hem mentioned. Let me know. mtmuley

 

[Nickman123]

It's going to be more than you think. The price of good house paint has skyrocketed

 

[Gellar]

Painting is spendy. Gotta pay for booze, drugs, and pricey sinus scraping.

Are you a painting contractor? Are you hiring? I have painting experience…watercolor.

 

[Deleted member 48080]

Thanks guys. I just got an estimate for my house, and it was 400% higher than the estimate I got in 2019. Little bit of sticker shock on that one.

 

[JEL]

BIL got an estimate for his house. 1600 sq ft one level. Was north of $5k.

 

[ashersdad]

Spent $13k last Fall and felt like we were getting a deal. We’re in Oregon though.

 

[Nick87]

Thanks guys. I just got an estimate for my house, and it was 400% higher than the estimate I got in 2019. Little bit of sticker shock on that one.

Not surprising

 

[DFS]

Quite a few years ago I called 4 different guys for bids only one of them even took the time to give me one. It was wasn’t far from what I could have put siding on it for. So I did it myself. It’s rough out there and I live in eastern Montana.

 

[Hunt&FishCO]

$9k; 2,200’ split level stucco. Didn’t do it (Colorado front range)

 

[Nick87]

My brother got 4 quotes a couple years back first three all between 17 and 20k iirc. Fourth guy 10k. I tried to offer some advice but what do I know. Paint lasted less than a year and is falling off in sheets and everytime it rains the house looks like it has the mumps. Looks worse now than before. But he won't admit it or have it redone out of spite. When they were doing the work I told him these guys aren't prepping anything like they should be. His response was "these guys told me they're not hacks". Moral of the story shit is expensive and you get what you pay for. I hope your able to get it done right. Have you priced residing it?

 

[FREAK]

Just had ours done in Bozeman. Had quotes from 5-8k. Pretty standard sub division house. Found a guy and his wife that do really good work and we’re right in the middle of that range.

 

[rogerthat]

Just had ours done in Bozeman. Had quotes from 5-8k. Pretty standard sub division house. Found a guy and his wife that do really good work and we’re right in the middle of that range.

That seems like a pretty solid deal. I painted my house last summer. Just the paint was $2k. I wouldn’t be super afraid of diy. Especially if no one will give you a reasonable quote. Buy a paint sprayer and some masking and call your buddies

 

[Deleted member 48080]

BIL got an estimate for his house. 1600 sq ft one level. Was north of $5k.

Mine is only 950 Sq ft, estimate was almost $9,000.