Painting Trim

Kevin75

Has anyone come up with a price/lf for painting basic colonial baseboard trim? I usually do one price for primer + 2 coats (materials and labor together). I suppose with trim, it's often primed, so I suppose I need to figure a price for with and without primer.

Thoughts?

Kevin

Workaholic

I prime over that preprimed trim, just don't trust it.

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Sean

slickshift

I agree
Unless I can be assured it's good stuff, I bid for primer regardless

That cheap crap is like chalk dust and blows right off the trim on the ride over to the job if it's on a rack on top and not inside a van

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Originally Posted by ModernStyle I have never used this crap before and I pray to the paint gods that I never have to use it again, I would rather use Behr

PlainPainter

Don't bother coming up with a seperate price. Always bid a primer coat - gives you the option of whether you want to do it or not. And I have found - that lots of builder are going over to factory primed trim - sometimes out of the blue you walk in a job you bid on specs - and find the whole place has non-primed trim. So I don't care anymore - I always work it into the price - and pocket the extra cash on the rare occasion I feel it doesn't need it. Funny - 1 coat of my primer and 2 topcoats on bare wood covers just as well as repriming and two topcoats on factory prime. But 2 topcoats, unless it's oil, on factory prime - never looks quite right.

Kevin75

Thanks for the advice guys.

Cole

I agree!

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