Painting the exterior of your house requires more attention to keep the total costs within your budget.
People paint their homes for different purposes. For example, improving look and street appeal or maintaining to ensure your property is protected from the elements. Generally, painters charge per square metre, and the cost ranges from between $15 to $45 for brick walls and $12 to $60 for wooden surfaces. The total cost of painting the entire exterior largely depends on the style and size of your home but can be anywhere between $500 and $25,000. The cost to paint the exterior of smaller Victorian homes can be around $12,000 to $18,000 and a Queenslander style building may cost between $10,000 to $25,000. If your walls have a brick veneer, you will be paying between $4,000 to $7,000. If it is a brick home, you may rarely need to paint outside. But it can be beneficial to apply a coat of render to give it a fresh look every few years. However, if it is a weatherboard house, saving it from weather is necessary.
Painting the outside of a home is not something people do every year. It is often considered expensive home improvement work.
Several aspects like the region where your property is situated, surrounding environment and climate decide if you need to apply a new layer of the paint.
Apart from this, the previous job quality, cladding and stucco and seasonal effects play a role in the life of the paint, especially if you are living in a coastal area. In this case, you may want to paint a house at least every seven years. On the other hand, if you live in an area where weather conditions stay mild most of the time, your exterior paint would last up to 15 or 20 years. Thus your home may need a new coat of paint in 7 years or may even last up to two decades.With such a long life span, the cost to paint a house exterior can not be as expensive as it seems. Moreover, you will be paying for what you get done, and if your home's exterior is in good condition, the expense will be relatively low.
Exterior painting is a significant part of home improvement. Estimate the cost of painting by determining the area to be painted by calculating the total square metres of your home. Get an experienced painter to inspect your walls as they can tell you which areas need more attention depending on the factors like the location, condition of the previous layer of the paint and topography. Ask for the paint type and per litre price. Paint comes in different qualities and compositions for various surfaces. You may need more than two coats. Painters generally give a quote on a per metre basis. You can calculate the total expense by multiplying the charge per metre by the total number of square metres of your home’s outside surfaces. Also, ask how many people will be working on this job and if they would need any extra materials or arrangements.
When you take up a significant home improvement and painting project it can be a costly, but it will boost the value and longevity of your property. Painting your home’s outside surfaces will not only add beauty to the appearance but also add value to your property.
If you have a weatherboard house, you need to perform maintenance every few years, especially painting inside and outside. As per the average quotes by painters in 2020, it takes;
$7000 - $12,000 for a small single-storey tenement in good condition.
$10,000 - $20,000 for a double-storey building in good state.
Painting is vital to keeping the walls look lively for many years. Waiting for a long time may make timber rotten, resulting in a budget blowout. If your property is in a region with harsh weather conditions, you may end up paying high repairing and replacement charges to a carpenter.
The costs may be between $5,500 to $8,000 if you have a two-storey house with three bedrooms. If it is a weatherboard home of two-storey, the expense will be relatively higher. If it is in a good situation, you may get the exterior painting task done at about $10,000. However, if the weather has taken a toll on the outer surfaces and the timber or wood is rotten, you may need repairs and pressure cleaning as part of the preparation before your painters can paint them. In this situation, your total costs maybe $20,000 or more.
Ask a painter to inspect your house to get an accurate quote and make prep work easy.
Applying beautiful colours on the exterior of your building gives you both satisfaction for its look and feel and additional safety to the walls.
House painting may be costly, but you would still want to do it every few years given its benefits. Further, if you are looking to improve your home from inside and outside with many elements, including colours, it will be helpful to know the cost and aspects that affect it. Once you have sorted at the street appeal of your home, why not paint the interior?To start with, you will need to get an estimate based on an inspection by a painter. They generally provide total labour costs based on per square metre charge that is;
$15 to $45 per square metre area to paint an exterior of a brick house.
$12 to $60 per square metre for the exterior painting of a house that has wooden surfaces.
Next comes the material like paint, primer, paint rollers, roller covers, Stir sticks, painters tape, small paintbrushes, and paint trays. An expert painter can give you an almost accurate estimate of the paint and other things required. Once you have these details, you can get a per square metre price by dividing the total cost (for labour and material) by the number of square metres.