Repainting and replastering interior of home

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#289557 12-Sep-2021 17:39

Since we are in l4 and I can't get tradespeople to quote, we are considering repainting in the interior of our home. It's a 16-Year-old place, and unfortunately, when they did the original gibbing, plastering and painting, they did a terrible job. Corners aren't sharp, lots of unevenness, and a fair number of decent-sized cracks. We want to make sure when we do it, we resolve those issues. We may also take the chance to run some extra cabling.

Our home is about 200m. I suspect we may need to have some areas re-jibbed prior to plaster and painting.

How does one get a ballpark figure for something like that?

I know it's a little difficult to estimate since how long is a bit of string etc :)

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#2777106 12-Sep-2021 18:05

You get a builder in to quote. You could also take photos and send to a builder for an estimate.

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#2777131 12-Sep-2021 19:55

Wouldn't bother re-gibbing unless for cabling purposes, the rest is not that difficult to do yourself and would probably do a better job. Filling and sanding will make things look 80% better. Other option would be to get a plasterer in to re-skim the affected walls then do the painting yourself. In my experience only about half of commercial painters can do a better job than DIY,they are just twice as fast at doing the job.

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#2777169 12-Sep-2021 23:54

jonb: ...In my experience only about half of commercial painters can do a better job than DIY,they are just twice as fast at doing the job.

And generally manage to create a lot less dust 😀

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#2777170 13-Sep-2021 00:02

jonb: Wouldn't bother re-gibbing unless for cabling purposes, the rest is not that difficult to do yourself and would probably do a better job. Filling and sanding will make things look 80% better. Other option would be to get a plasterer in to re-skim the affected walls then do the painting yourself. In my experience only about half of commercial painters can do a better job than DIY,they are just twice as fast at doing the job.

When we took possession of the house there was a significant issue with the painting. The painters blamed the plasters the plasters blamed the jib guys . The guy guys blamed the builders. They had about 9 goes at correcting it and never got it looking decent. The developer said he wouldn't use the plasterer again. They re taped the joins in many areas but it still looks pretty shoddy.

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#2777173 13-Sep-2021 01:23

We're also in the same boat and looking at painting. We are considering painting over the wallpaper. We've also got a heap of outside fence to paint so have started looking at getting a reasonable airless paint sprayer and doing it ourselves. The newer spray paint guns look like they make things easier.

Following this thread with interest.

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#2777175 13-Sep-2021 02:24

networkn:
jonb: Wouldn't bother re-gibbing unless for cabling purposes, the rest is not that difficult to do yourself and would probably do a better job. Filling and sanding will make things look 80% better. Other option would be to get a plasterer in to re-skim the affected walls then do the painting yourself. In my experience only about half of commercial painters can do a better job than DIY,they are just twice as fast at doing the job.

When we took possession of the house there was a significant issue with the painting. The painters blamed the plasters the plasters blamed the jib guys . The guy guys blamed the builders. They had about 9 goes at correcting it and never got it looking decent. The developer said he wouldn't use the plasterer again. They re taped the joins in many areas but it still looks pretty shoddy.

That sucks. Ive had pros do the gib/plastering and their work has been pretty much perfect, even marrying existing old work and new work.

I’ve also skim coated and it takes a couple of rooms before the DIYer’s skill gets to a really presentable level (I started with bedrooms). Without the vacuum sander the dust is next level too.

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#2777181 13-Sep-2021 07:30

Being in lock down the perfect thing to do is just start now, just rip that gib out. :)

How long can it be? Bunnings will be open soon and I am sure the contractors will have plenty of time for jobs.

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#2777186 13-Sep-2021 08:01

blackjack17:

Being in lock down the perfect thing to do is just start now, just rip that gib out. :)

How long can it be? Bunnings will be open soon and I am sure the contractors will have plenty of time for jobs.

The only thing better than being lock in a house is being locked in a house under construction.

Why rip perfectly good Gib out? That makes no sense to me. Also isn't there a Gib shortage? Is this even achievable right now?

If it's just a finishing problem then sanding and plastering is all that should be needed. Seems crazy having to re-Gib a 16 year old house.

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#2777189 13-Sep-2021 08:13

Cost me $6000 just to repaint the interior of our 3 bedroom house in CHC 3 years ago. Includes paint, labour and all.
Didnt have to repair jib or other imperfections, as OP wants, but they pulled out all the nails, patched them up including a hole where the ceiling fan was.
This is excluding the garage that we opted not to paint.

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#2777190 13-Sep-2021 08:15

hairy1: We're also in the same boat and looking at painting. We are considering painting over the wallpaper. We've also got a heap of outside fence to paint so have started looking at getting a reasonable airless paint sprayer and doing it ourselves. The newer spray paint guns look like they make things easier.

Following this thread with interest.

We have paint over old wallpaper. The wallpaper comes off or bubbles in places and looks bad, and painted over it's more difficult to fix. I wouldn't paint over wallpaper, I'd remove it, get a plasterer in to fix anything wrong, then paint.

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#2777217 13-Sep-2021 09:02

Just as a matter of interest, can you actually remove painted wallpaper from gib (and leave the gib behind...) ?

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#2777218 13-Sep-2021 09:04

scuwp:

blackjack17:

Being in lock down the perfect thing to do is just start now, just rip that gib out. :)

How long can it be? Bunnings will be open soon and I am sure the contractors will have plenty of time for jobs.

The only thing better than being lock in a house is being locked in a house under construction.

Why rip perfectly good Gib out? That makes no sense to me. Also isn't there a Gib shortage? Is this even achievable right now?

If it's just a finishing problem then sanding and plastering is all that should be needed. Seems crazy having to re-Gib a 16 year old house.

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#2777230 13-Sep-2021 09:38

jonb: Wouldn't bother re-gibbing unless for cabling purposes, the rest is not that difficult to do yourself and would probably do a better job. Filling and sanding will make things look 80% better. Other option would be to get a plasterer in to re-skim the affected walls then do the painting yourself. In my experience only about half of commercial painters can do a better job than DIY,they are just twice as fast at doing the job.

@networkn I’ve been an avid DIY’er for 45 years and, being a big-head, reckon I’m pretty good at a lot of stuff. As part of this, have done a fair bit of gibbing. However I’ve never got the hang of gib-stopping to the point where I’ve been happy with the quality of my own work. IMO it’s a helluva lot harder to do (properly) than it looks. Definitely a skilled job.

I guess it depends on the appearance standards you set for yourself but I’d think twice about doing the stopping yourself. However I would certainly consider taking @jonb second option advice to get a pro to skim and prepare the walls - then do the painting yourself.

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#2777255 13-Sep-2021 11:03

I had no problem painting over wallpaper. It was a vinyl on hardboard (50’s part of house). Initially used special sealer paint (boy does that stink) but later tried direct application of undercoat on an inconspicuous section and it worked a treat so finished the rest that way.

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#2777266 13-Sep-2021 11:30

@OP - given the State of The World, I'd suggest you give a DIY repaint a go. Painting a room probably will cost you a weekend of effort, a couple of hundred dollars of paint, plus maybe that again in tools if you don't already have them. If you're still not happy, you can always re-gib later. You are looking a very long lead times for both plasterboard and tradespeople, and from the sounds of the mutual finger pointing among previous contractors, you might be in for a bit of time and effort (e.g. shimming studs to straighten out walls) and a *lot* of dust and unpleasantness while the work is underway. i.e. not going in the rooms for a week or two.

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