 After spending nearly two years staring at your walls (or your colleague's walls behind them in Zoom calls) it's not surprising if you want to make a bit of a colour change to your Mosman home. Vivid White is probably a bit clinical and sterile these days. And we really don’t want to be reminded of hospitals! The usual gang of ‘off white’ paint colours are still fine and you cant really go wrong with them. See my page that makes choosing colour from this list super-easy here LINK. But if you want to change your Mosman home (without too much change!) here are some paint colour suggestions. All are neutral but not so pale as in previous years. Think neutral colours with a bit more 'oomf'. And its nice to see Dulux's veteran paint colour, 'Hog Bristle Half' still providing a nice subtle ‘biscuit’ sort of colour. Hog Bristle (full, half and quarter) has been around for years! Mosman Paint Colour 1 - click on the orange link below DULUX STOWE WHITE Mosman Paint Colour 2 - click on the orange link below DULUX NEW PENNY Mosman Paint Colour 3 - click on the orange link below DULUX HOG BRISTLE HALF Mosman Paint Colour 4 - click on the orange link below DULUX CLAY PIPE HALF Now if you prefer to go a little more adventurous with some ‘strong’ paint colours have a look at this video. You might not want the whole house painted in Dark Brown, but any of these colours would make a great feature wall. And feature wall colours are really easy to change if you get sick of them! Also theres some really interesting mood boards This colour trend video doesn’t give Dulux colours but once you see something you like (or the Pantone Number) its pretty easy to match.
So have a look and if I can help paint your Mosman home interiors in any of these trendy colours I'd love to help!  HOW MUCH DOES A PAINTER COST PER HOUR? You want to get your home painted. It’s reasonable to wonder what the going hourly rate is for those painters. If you’ve done a Google search to find the hourly earnings of a house painter, you’ll probably be surprised by the variety of answers. Many results are from the USA whose dollar is stronger and whose minimum wage is much lower. American results are NO use to us here. You might as well ask what a painter from Finland charges. Most Australian “painter cost per hour” entries are from “find-a-tradie-listings” - Oneflare, Hipages, Serviceseeking etc. The rates given range from $30 to $60 per hour. At first glance this might seem pretty generous but I'm not so sure. OVERHEAD What a lot of folks forget is that even the tiniest painting business has overheads. As a tiny painting business owner I can accurately say that 20% comes off every dollar in overheads - vehicle, fuel, insurance, equipment, Accounting fees, office supplies, GST. NON BILLABLE HOURS And no painter can be charging clients all the time. There’s always non billable hours taken up with quoting, invoicing, book keeping, buying supplies, maintaining tools, marketing, and just down time between jobs. SICK LEAVE Haha! Don’t make me laugh. The hourly rate has to cover time taken when the painter might be sick. Also painters (and other tradies) have to deal with injury. I spent 9 weeks recovering from a ladder fall. No pay for 9 weeks. HOLIDAY LEAVE See above ALL OVER AUSTRALIA? Also, strangely, the quoted painters hourly rate is assumed to be the same all over Australia. This is just not the case. The cost of living in central Sydney is very different to rural South Australia so the hourly rate should be different. SO WHAT DO YOU RECKON, TONY? You can probably guess that I just don’t think the $30 - $60 per hour figure is in anyway accurate for a painting job in ANY suburb of Sydney. After expenses the poor old painter is barely making enough money to justify the risk of running a business! One Hire-a-tradie-list, HireTrades.com.au, has a much more accurate range of figures. They sensibly show the difference between the main cities of Australia.
*Price estimates are based on Rawlinsons’ Australian Construction Handbook 2018, Edition 36
So I think it’s fair to say house painting in Sydney will cost somewhere between $60 and $105 per hour. But do you really want to hire a painter by the hour? Only if you KNOW how long he will take and if you want to become the site foreman, making sure no one slacks off and costs you money. For house painting, hourly is not the way to go. DOES THE HOURLY RATE MATTER? Not really. What matters is that you have a fixed figure for the JOB that you want done. A BETTER WAY TO COMPARE PRICES ON A PAINTING JOB IN SYDNEY. Ok, there are the 3 parts that do MATTER when getting and comparing quotes. It’s amazing how seldom clients get all three parts specified. Without ALL THREE you are flying blind and can’t make an accurate assessment of value. And worse still without all three you can spend a fortune and not get what you wanted in the first place! They are: PART 1 - A full itemised list of what WORK is going to be done. A quote to “paint a room” could mean almost anything ...
Occasionally I’m asked to explain why my quoted PRICE is different to another painters quoted PRICE. Almost certainly it’s because the WORK I plan to do is different to the WORK they plan to do. But without their fully itemised breakdown we’ll never know why. PART 2 - A commitment to the NUMBER OF DAYS that your painting job will take. A low price is pretty useless if the painting job is rushed through at lightening speed. I’ve seen five people painting a bathroom at the same time. Some were plastering, some were drying the plaster with hair dryers, some were painting. It was like a Marx Brothers movie! God knows how long that paint job lasted. But, hey, it was cheap! PART 3 - The PRICE. And of course you want to know the price. But you want to know the price IN COMBINATION with work done part and time taken part. Notice that hourly wage doesn’t come into the equation at all. What you want to know is: WHAT WORK IS BEING DONE, AND WHAT TIME IS BEING SPENT, FOR THE MONEY BEING QUOTED? Then and only then can you compare quotes and decide on the best value for YOUR SYDNEY HOME. Was this info helpful? If so, please leave a 5 star rating. Its easy and fast. No review needed. |
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