Painting a garage

flabotis · 05-20-2012, 12:27 PM

My parents have asked me to paint the interior of their two car garage. They also would like to have the textured ceiling repainted because it is peeling and appears to have no primer underneath. I suspect, once I start scraping, that the whole textured ceiling paint will come off. They would also like to pay me for this. My question is how much would be a fair price to charge?

Gymschu · 05-20-2012, 12:35 PM

$85,000 covers EVERYTHING!

But seriously, there's no way we can answer this question without more details such as size of garage, are you going to move everything out of garage, what type of paint is on it now, etc. A pic would help us give you some advice on how to proceed, but estimating a price is impossible.

sdsester · 05-20-2012, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gymschu

$85,000 covers EVERYTHING!

Might cover the painting part but you should ask for another $15,000 to deal with taking down the textured ceiling. If they really love you they will not question the price.

Is this a sprayed on popcorn ceiling? If so and if it is peeling loose in places you should think about taking it all down if they will go with the idea. Especially in a garage, once parts start going it becomes a battle to try and patch and repair it. I hate popcorn ceilings that were not done properly with primer underneath and using decent paint. This is 98 percent of them.

It will actually go pretty fast if you get a wide drywall blade under the stuff.

If it is some other sort of sprayed on drywall texture it could be harder to take down or patch. You will have to source what is causing it to fail.

As to what you should charge? Charging relatives is always hard and those really close even harder. I assume they are trying to help you out on a time and materials basis? I guess come up with an hourly rate you all agree fair.

Do get them to use nice paint store, and not box store paint. Even in a garage. You could use the contractor grades of either Benjamin Moore (Super Spec) or Sherwin Williams (Pro Mar), save quite a bit, and still be better off than with box store paint.

flabotis · 05-20-2012, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sdsester

Might cover the painting part but you should ask for another $15,000 to deal with taking down the textured ceiling. If they really love you they will not question the price.

Is this a sprayed on popcorn ceiling? If so and if it is peeling loose in places you should think about taking it all down if they will go with the idea. Especially in a garage, once parts start going it becomes a battle to try and patch and repair it. I hate popcorn ceilings that were not done properly with primer underneath and using decent paint. This is 98 percent of them.

It will actually go pretty fast if you get a wide drywall blade under the stuff.

If it is some other sort of sprayed on drywall texture it could be harder to take down or patch. You will have to source what is causing it to fail.

As to what you should charge? Charging relatives is always hard and those really close even harder. I assume they are trying to help you out on a time and materials basis? I guess come up with an hourly rate you all agree fair.

Do get them to use nice paint store, and not box store paint. Even in a garage. You could use the contractor grades of either Benjamin Moore (Super Spec) or Sherwin Williams (Pro Mar), save quite a bit, and still be better off than with box store paint.

I like your guys' prices. It's 22x24x11. The ceiling is a textured(popcorn) ceiling. Thanks for the info

Gymschu · 05-20-2012, 03:15 PM

A popcorn ceiling soaks up LOTS OF PAINT. I have done living rooms about the size of your garage ceiling and used EIGHT gallons of ceiling paint........prepare to use lots of material.

sdsester · 05-20-2012, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Gymschu

A popcorn ceiling soaks up LOTS OF PAINT. I have done living rooms about the size of your garage ceiling and used EIGHT gallons of ceiling paint........prepare to use lots of material.

It will soak up lots of paint if the surface tension of the roller does not pull it off in sheets/chunks. Popcorn ceilings are the work of the devil. Get rid of it.

chrisn · 05-20-2012, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by sdsester

It will soak up lots of paint if the surface tension of the roller does not pull it off in sheets/chunks. Popcorn ceilings are the work of the devil. Get rid of it.

absolutely!