Hello everyone!
The drywall installers will be finished soon, and after the tilers, we can focus on painting and flooring work. Accordingly, we’ve requested a quote. Unfortunately, it is well above our budget (over 16,000€). The quote includes covering and masking work, priming, filling and sanding, and paint fleece.
We now want to skip the paint fleece, as a perfectly smooth surface is not that important to us and the cost is quite high. But even without this item, we are still looking at over 10,000€. The filling and sanding work is also quite expensive. We could probably save those costs if we apply textured wallpaper (Raufasertapete) on the Q2 walls, right, or am I mistaken?
What other options are there? We have Q2 plaster. We know it’s not recommended to paint directly on this surface. However, our expectations for the finish are not very high. We are not fans of wallpaper, so eventually we just want to be able to paint on our own.
What exactly speaks against simply painting our Q2 walls? (Of course, we would sand and fill them beforehand.)
Thanks for your answers!
The drywall installers will be finished soon, and after the tilers, we can focus on painting and flooring work. Accordingly, we’ve requested a quote. Unfortunately, it is well above our budget (over 16,000€). The quote includes covering and masking work, priming, filling and sanding, and paint fleece.
We now want to skip the paint fleece, as a perfectly smooth surface is not that important to us and the cost is quite high. But even without this item, we are still looking at over 10,000€. The filling and sanding work is also quite expensive. We could probably save those costs if we apply textured wallpaper (Raufasertapete) on the Q2 walls, right, or am I mistaken?
What other options are there? We have Q2 plaster. We know it’s not recommended to paint directly on this surface. However, our expectations for the finish are not very high. We are not fans of wallpaper, so eventually we just want to be able to paint on our own.
What exactly speaks against simply painting our Q2 walls? (Of course, we would sand and fill them beforehand.)
Thanks for your answers!
Fleckenzwerg schrieb:
Does anyone here have experience with airless paint systems? They’re supposed to be much faster than using a roller... But I wonder, if that’s the case, why do professionals still use rollers? There must be a catch, right...? We have the WAGNER Control 150 M airless paint spraying system. I don’t find it that great and would count it as a bad purchase (so if you’re interested, just let me know 😉 ). If you’re painting the whole house at once, before floors/baseboards/doors/switches etc. are installed, and you can work with a full-face mask (which was one of my biggest problems because it fogged up completely within seconds), you can cover a lot of ground quickly. However, in my opinion, you still need to tape everything off much more carefully, and cleaning the equipment takes quite a while. It’s not suitable if you want to quickly paint just a single room.
However, I also know professionals who use a spraying system.
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Fleckenzwerg21 Jun 2022 13:24Exactly, if I were to use it, I would apply it in several rooms at once. I have always masked off areas so meticulously that you could practically set off a paint bomb in the room afterwards. So that wouldn’t be the issue. When I watch videos online of DIYers using it, it always looks so easy, and none of them wear full-face respirators. As someone here wrote... it sounds too good to be true. 😉
Fleckenzwerg schrieb:
none of them wear a full mask eitherI think safety glasses are a must, and a mask... well, I don’t want to breathe in the spray mist continuously. As I said, I could lend you the equipment...
At least that way it gets used until we are ready to use it again in the rooms...
A colleague of mine painted her wall the same way, but on plaster, and since then she has been complaining that small pieces of plaster keep falling off… you would just roll it off the wall, and that would solve the problem.
A professional doesn’t tape off at all, so you really can’t trust them on that.
A professional doesn’t tape off at all, so you really can’t trust them on that.
Using a paint sprayer was not for us. Maybe we just weren't skilled enough. We started by spraying the ceiling. Unfortunately, some paint splattered everywhere, causing spots on the walls that remained visible despite attempts to fix them. Using a roller was faster and cleaner for us.
Snowy36 schrieb:
and a professional doesn’t tape off at all, so you really can’t trust them.Excuse me? What does a professional not tape off?The professional doesn’t tape off, so then the builder has to spend hours cleaning up afterwards. (Was that what you meant?) 😀
There are always drips and, when using a roller, very fine paint splatters. So no matter what tool you use for painting, taping off is half the job.
And when spraying, the effort required for masking is even greater!
The advertising always suggests you can paint or spray almost in a suit or dress…
Yeah, right. For most people, the floor is already ruined as soon as the paint can is opened. 😉
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