Would it be more expensive to get someone to hand paint new pine stairs or to get them sprayed? They will be painted white.
€500 to be sounds expensive - just the one quote you got? It's usually
Recently got my stairs (all but the steps which are carpeted) & underneath stair case painted in off white... was a dark varnish, so took a coat of primer, 2 coats of undercoat & coat of off white to get finished... work was done over 5 days... Average quote I got was for €120 per day - for stairs & 3 additional large rooms (walls & ceilings).
Jazz was that 5 days for the stairs alone or for the stairs + 3 rooms
Tin of primer €30 and 5 litre tin of Satinwood Paint approx €30 so after that your paying for the labour of which €500 seems way overpriced imo
30 euro primer and 30 euro tin of satinwood are not what you would use to spray a stairs with,so it might seem way overpriced to you, but you have priced for completely the wrong materials.spraying and brush painting are two different jobs,different paint needed for each,a pine or varnished stairs when its painted will need alot of filling and caulking that would not be needed when its varnished.this takes a lot of time. also we have no idea how big the stairs is and what condition its in, 500 euro could be a great price lets not be so quick to say someone is getting ripped of,and personally i would not let a spayer inside the door of any house unless its a new build and nothing is done inside only 2nd fix wiring.cause trying to contain overspray is practically impossible..
The prices I gave were for brush job and I used these to do a kitchen recently. At no point did I say anyone was being ripped off - I said I thought it was expensive in my opinion
we were talking about a stairs and not a kitchen,and whats the difference between way over priced and ripped off..