Painter recommendation - Brisbane inner east (Bulimba)

I'll send you my painter's name and number via private message.

 

I think you've answered your own question. Who would pay thousands to paint a few external windows?

He's a great painter, and we trust him completely. In fact, when he was painting our place, we gave him a key and we told him to let himself in and make a coffee or grab a snack any time whether we are home or not. We'd hear him in the kitchen and think "we'd better get up and have a coffee with him". Of course, we consider him a good friend now and he wouldn't just go to anyone's fridge or make himself a coffee.

I've just replied to a private message with his, and I think it says it all...

The work he has done for us here at home, and for various other houses (rentals and houses belonging to friends and family) is too varied to list.

He has painted our house outside and inside. We've painted with him when we've needed something done and need more than one painter. He has just painted my son's house and he had a friend help him.

I think he does fantastic work, fantastic and detailed preparation, and sometimes that means a higher price, but a "cheap" paint job without good preparation is a waste of time and money.

I doubt we could get the same quality of work for cheaper.

We consider him a friend now, and don't ask for quotes. We do ask for a ballpark figure so we have a rough idea, but if he needs more time to prep something that he finds once he has started, then we pay him more. He is as honest a man as you will ever find.

I do believe that for painters quoting on older houses like we hold, they no doubt pad any quotes, because invariably we find more preparation is needed once you start the job and find out the shortcuts the previous painters used. We once paid him two days just to work on a (beautiful old and "wow") ceiling that continued to peel as he painted. Clearly it needed to be totally renovated and remediated and that took two days. Another painter would not have done the extra preparation and that ceiling would have been peeling again. We are happy to pay for good work that fixes a problem, and not just have someone paint over it (again) and kick the can down the road.

 

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