painting recap

Have you heard enough about our painting yet? I know I have written about it, thought about it, and actually done it more than enough these past few weeks. I also realize, however, that I am going to want to look back on this and have a little more info on how we did it, what we spent, etc if for no other reason than for budgeting's sake when we do this again in the all-to-near future.

So here's the breakdown in numbers of what it took to paint just about one half of the house this fall...

-Pittsburgh Grand Distinction Exterior Paint, 1- 5 gallon bucket $154.05, after mail-in     rebate
-Pittsburgh Grand Distinction Exterior Paint (trim), 2-1 gallon buckets $81
-Extension ladder, borrowed from a friend, free
-Sprayer, borrowed from my parents, free
-Cheap labor, brother-in-law, $230

Total = $465.05

All three of us workers (the paid laborer included) also spent an estimated 23 each painting.


It should also be mentioned that this was after we spent about $250 and 15 hours each, scraping, power washing, sanding, and priming the house earlier this spring. 

Taking into account the prep work, time, and money, you could extrapolate that this project, by the time all said and done next spring, will have cost about $1150 and 183 total man hours.

That is not a small amount of money or time (so much time!), but considering we got a very rough estimate of $3500-$4000 to prep and paint our house, I'd say it was definitely worth the hard work and hours we put in to save such a considerable amount of money. I sure like having that extra $2500 in the bank.

Please know that the windows have all been put back in (taken out to easily get out on the roof)

 and the wood boards moved out of the 2nd story porch.