How Much Does It Cost To Paint Exterior Windows?



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Cost to Paint Exterior Windows


proper job painting just one window, that’s full burning off, sorting out any rot then 4 coats of acrylic paint. (In reality, this will mean doing the inside as well but we’ll forget that here)! This will take 1 man 2 days inc. materials

Job
Description
Labour
1To do a £390
2To do a cheap and cheerful job on the same window. 1 day and £25 materials.
£200

“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on Painting Windows


Ironically, this article is being written by a builder who, as he became older (though not necessarily wiser), would rather hit his fingers with a hammer than let them pick up a paint brush. Actually I was going to adapt a joke about a bacon slicer instead of the hammer bit but I know our editor (who’s wife did used to work in a butcher’s as it goes), would just throw it out on the spurious basis that it might amuse someone!

Any advice I could roll out would have to be dragged up from the fetid mush that masquerades as my memory and even then it would be done grudgingly. Fortunately, as is so often the case, a mate has come to my rescue. He obviously didn’t need a life, so he became a painter and has allowed me to utilise his standard painting quotation.

Here is a potential problem. Where, (particularly if he’s “burning off”), does the painter stop? If he paints the 4 edges which he should, does he carry on and do the inside of the window as well? If he does that, what about the skirting boards and doors?

Actually, no one paints just one window. The next progression should be all the windows, but no one paints just the windows without the doors, ironwork, fascias etc. That’s a scenario you will have to address with your painter, not me!

Painting windows is a job that should be undertaken with the windows open! If not, the paint will either seal them shut or will be ripped off when they do open.


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