re: House Painters...Why do they all look like they've just got released from prison?

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I don't mind what they look like, but boy it pisses me off when they quote $14,000 to paint my 2,100 sq ft house.

That's a pretty good motivational technique to get me off of my lazy arse and outside painting my house myself.

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This...we had to pull up all our wood floors and replace them. Wife said she was going to paint our 5 bedrooms herself. I bought all the paint and rented scaffolds. She procrastinated up until the week before new floors were going in. I got a guy exactly as described in the OP to give me a quote. $2,500. To paint walls only. No trim whatsoever and I had already purchased the paint. This was at 10am on a Friday. She was painting by noon and it was completed Sunday afternoon. Mostly by me but yea. Aint no way I was paying him that much money.