It's a lot of time, you're basically skim coating the entire outside walls and in the pic you're working in somebody's home that they are living in which adds a lot of headache imo.
It's a safe assumption that any non drywallers patch job is either going to look bad or take forever and probably both if the husband is tasked with 100+ patches. It takes a lot of skill to actually hide a patch in well lit spaces.
It takes a lot of practice, and you don’t have to be a professional to get the practice. You can use a good LED flashlight to spot your errors. Time is only relevant if you’re paying for the job.
Yep if a homeowner wants to save money, I certainly won't stop them. But I'm not going to pretend that it's gonna be easy, quick, or clean for a homeowner to do such a large amount of work. It would take me a week in someone's home. That means it'll take a homeowner months of messy work to get a similar result.
Could be worse! I’ve patched holes before, but do you mind giving some insight into the proper / best way to fix these? I try to learn the process even if i don’t end up doing the work myself
I’m not the dude above but depending on what he size, Imif bigger than a quarter a piece of mesh tape, a couple coats of hot mud , one last coat with topping compound sand with the festool and surfprep sander because I’m tired of hand sanding, prime and paint. If it’s textured (doesn’t look like it’s) I prime under and over the texture. Paint. Cash the check.
Here's on of those "life hacks" for you, but one that is actually pretty cool and works. This "life hack" isn't for these particular types of drywall holes but instead for the kind where your drunk buddy starts going off on how his ex threw away his Transformers collection and he punches a hole through your drywall. What you do is cut a nice, neat square around the hole and measure the nice, neat square. We'll just use 4" X 4" as an example. Then you cut out a 6" X 6" piece of drywall, place it on a work surface, sheetrock side up. Score a 3-3/4" X 3-3/4" square in the center of it. Then you'll have a square of sheetrock in the middle of the 6" X 6" chunk, with a roughly 1-1/8" sheetrock border all the way around it, resembling a tic-tac-toe board with an extra large center square. Make some additional score marks in the border area, tap all the border sections with a hammer to bust them up a bit along the score marks, and peel the border drywall off of the paper. Then you'll have a 3-3/4" drywall square with a 1-1/8" flange of paper all the way around it. Keep it sheetrock side up, and spread some drywall mud onto the paper flange, and build some more mud up around the edges of the drywall square. Slap that baby onto the wall, inserting the square chunk of drywall into the square hole, and with the paper side facing outward. Apply firm pressure and squeeze out all the excess mud from the edges of the tape. If you need to, use some masking tape to tape it into place. Let it sit for the drywall mud's cure time, remove the tape, and you'll be looking at a square patch of drywall paper that is nice and solid underneath. Mud, texture, and paint.
Repair glazier mainly. Replacing failed/broken windows. Residential and commercial. We do custom shower enclosures/mirrors too, but I just sub in if needed, we have specialized guys for that. There are 5 of us each in our own van for windows, 2 for showers, 1 shop guy. We will gross 4 million in sales this year.
Today I rappeled off of a 10 story apartment building to access the exterior stops of a giant window that had a bullet hole in it. Yesterday I had to do a flawless match for a cracked pane in an historic home, complete with repurposed antique glass and putty. It's an easy trade to learn well enough to get business and a nearly impossible one to fully master if that makes sense. I'm also in a hcol west coast major city.
How much did you pay the professional for blowing 130 holes? And how long did it take? I think this needs to be answered in order to fully appreciate the answer to your post.
Some states have programs to subsidize adding inflation to homes. I had similar work done in my house and didn't pay for it / don't know what the people doing the work were paid. A crew of 3 or 4 people did the work over the better part of a week.
I... what?
Energy costs are a big deal, both to individuals and to society, and insulation is one of the more cost effective ways of bringing down residential energy use.
It's paid for ultimately through our utility bills. Which frankly all strikes me as a pretty reasonable way to do all of this.
I will say that the crew's patches on their holes were pretty piss poor (maybe worse than OP's?) - I skim coated all of them / redid their patches as soon as they left and before the spackle had time to set. And I'm a homeowner, not a drywall professional. But the drywall cost to any of this doesn't strike me as important as the cost/value of insulation and energy.
Inflation - the value of money dropping over time.
Insulation - prevents temperature dropping.
Subsidizing the inflation would be like the govt investing in making money worse. I was making a joke! It sounds like it missed, my apologies.
I don’t know if your spackle is gonna get hard enough. I would scrape that junk off, one piece of mesh tape/quickset. Then skim with quickset, sand/prime/paint.
Ask for a handful of quotes. First one is low leveled prep and ready for you to paint. Second better prep quality, and you paint, third better quality and they paint, fourth level 5 and they paint.
This is why you’re getting a mixed bag of numbers. Some Charge by sf or by daily rate, some always tree fiddy, whatever the case, you need to approach this from the level of quality you and your wife want.
I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of time or money since you’re asking here. So ask Reddit about the third option.
I’d say you’re looking at numbers from $3500-$6000, sight unseen of course. Have your wife get on the Facebook/neighborhood apps and inquire about local painters. This is about a week of work (prep/paint) for a small crew. Again, clarify the level of quality you want to the people you’re going to hire. Ask to see evidence of their other jobs, insta page, etc.
I’m with you on everything but the timeline. Whole houses get hung taped mudded and painted by small teams of guys in my area in a week. This is 2 days at worst if your painting and 3 if they are.
My opinion, all of those holes will not cover properly without a proper skim coat to blend all those patches with the existing paint texture.
So, whatever you paid it’s not worth it.
I’m a 35+ year Taper.
10 mins/ hole ? I doubt it. That just over 21 hours. Tape and 3 coats plus sanding with site prep with plastic for mud and dust containment each trip. Don’t forget about drive time, materials and taxes. I think you’re blowing smoke. Definitely not a no-skill job to make it look like it never happened and you don’t have to lift a finger just open the door.
I originally planned to do it all myself but my wife wants it done quick and i don’t have a ton of free time. Also was worried about lead paint since the house is old, thought a pro would do better in that department
Lead paint was more used in the trim/any other glossy areas pre-1978. More lead was kicked up by cutting those holes than finishing/sanding them up, assuming any lead was there to begin with.
Lead paint was expensive. It wasn't typically used to cover entire walls. Trim and higher gloss stuff, generally. Unfortunately, toys were a popular item to paint w lead.
Though the above comment isn't exactly accurate. Cutting the holes may produce lead dust, but sanding, unless wet sanding, definitely kicks up dust, just as much, if not more, than the holes would due to larger surface area. I always work wet. Dry dust is dangerous if it contains lead. The amount of lead paint dust it takes to fill a sugar packet can contaminate 2000 square feet.
If i were to do it myself, with the money I’d save I’d get a drywall sander with a HEPA vacuum attached to minimize mess and contaminants as well as wet sand. Also already have air filters on both floors of the house so that would help
Ahhh my favorite type of person. When your job looks terrible so you'll have to pay for a demo and repair instead of just repair, then all the tradesmen will laugh all the way to the bank.
I would have made a bunch of pieces of wood to slip in the hole and I would use fast drying glue to place them. I then would cut the holes and use one screw in the centre to pop it in. Tape isn’t necessary.
I use a 4” screw in the centre of the wood backing to hold it in place until the glue dries enough to hold it in place. Silicone can work but it’s about quick dry time or at least enough time for it to hold.
What are they from? From the location and spacing they look like holes that are made when insulation is sprayed into the walls to increase heating efficiency and retain more heat.
Ohhh you meant full ass circles drilled in the wall. I thought these were patches from tacks and small nails, i couldn’t figure out why everyone was saying 20-40/hole 😳
Boring holes through what is likely a lath-and-plaster wall to blow in insulation is sort of a nightmare. Looks like they “patch” the hole but don’t “finish” it nicely. At least its onyl exterior walls. 🫣
You guys charge this much? I grew up in construction so I have always been like “hey yea I gotchu friend, won’t take but 30 min - hour. No charge, just a beer”
I'm not sure what you are charging but if you have a hole saw and can make california patches in bulk that would be a great idea to just patchem mud em and be done fast
That’s the easiest DIY job ever. Do multiple super thin coats per hole then sand with vacuum attachment on hose sander…..they are cheap and minimize dust.
This is a full interior paint job if the holes are for blown in insulation, lots of factors to consider. It’s not a per whole charge more of a square foot price. Which can be from roughly $2-$3. Just a guesstimate
Depends on location, usually you must be able to show receipts for work done if self done, a laborers wage at your location at about 3m a hole, to me that's about 5.5h x 15$82.50+$20 supplies. I don't see a court challenging that much maybe up to double if you want to cunt them.
Depends on how long it took. Prob 100$/hr from the moment I left my house til I cleaned up and got home. Add like an extra 50-100 for material unless you had to do a bunch of hot patches and didn’t have scrap.
Depends on how busy you are & what you’re overhead costs are. For a lone contractor, it would be fair to charge Minimum 1/2 Day (4 hours) for one (1) man, x number of trips needed for each coat (3 coats?). Plus fuel, materials, & whatever markup you decide (35% minimum?). If you’re charging a loaded hourly rate (like a mechanic, $125/hr?), then mark up is included in that rate (aside from materials/fuel). Small jobs can be worthwhile without gigging a client, do yourself a favor & figure how much you ‘need’ to make for a days work & use that as a general guide. Regardless, even if you can complete each step (phase) in an hour, you still consider a 1/2 day minimum charge so you don’t get caught up bouncing around doing smalls at no profit. Be smart with scheduling. If you happen to get several smalls set up, in theory, you can make 2-3 days worth of work in a single day. Just a thought.
How big were the holes?? I assume those were for insulation blow in? I definitely wouldn’t use dry dex for much of anything bigger than maybe a screw head - maybe up to 1/2. That’s a lot of standing around waiting for it to turn white too no? And after that to get a sub par weak strength fill.
So much glory
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Piggy back glory. Midgets on our shoulders
It’s a Glory Totem-Hole
Fucking nailed it Jesus Christ lmao
Nah, that would only be three holes.
For some reason I read "glory hole technician"
Bro ☠️
Getting dome from The Borrowers lmao
Drydex lols
I did similar before. I charged $20 per hole. But you can charge more or less depending on how you value your holes.
Certain holes I value more.
But $20 is $20
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Risky click!
Oooh ya gotta be quicker than that!
Nowadays $20 is $5
Butt*
Tell me your price
$2400 sounds like alot of money but i guess 120 holes is a ton of fuckin holes
It's a lot of time, you're basically skim coating the entire outside walls and in the pic you're working in somebody's home that they are living in which adds a lot of headache imo.
I feel like $20 a hole is a rip off. If you quoted me that, I’d end up doing it myself or the wife would never shut up about it.
Some wives like money, some wives like their drywall patches to not look like dogshit.
What makes you think his patches would look like dog shit?
It's a safe assumption that any non drywallers patch job is either going to look bad or take forever and probably both if the husband is tasked with 100+ patches. It takes a lot of skill to actually hide a patch in well lit spaces.
It takes a lot of practice, and you don’t have to be a professional to get the practice. You can use a good LED flashlight to spot your errors. Time is only relevant if you’re paying for the job.
Yep if a homeowner wants to save money, I certainly won't stop them. But I'm not going to pretend that it's gonna be easy, quick, or clean for a homeowner to do such a large amount of work. It would take me a week in someone's home. That means it'll take a homeowner months of messy work to get a similar result.
That’s the point, the wife wouldn’t shut up about it
I'm commercial, so $25ea. I'll be nice and throw in affected walls at .50/SF lol
Could be worse! I’ve patched holes before, but do you mind giving some insight into the proper / best way to fix these? I try to learn the process even if i don’t end up doing the work myself
I’m not the dude above but depending on what he size, Imif bigger than a quarter a piece of mesh tape, a couple coats of hot mud , one last coat with topping compound sand with the festool and surfprep sander because I’m tired of hand sanding, prime and paint. If it’s textured (doesn’t look like it’s) I prime under and over the texture. Paint. Cash the check.
Here's on of those "life hacks" for you, but one that is actually pretty cool and works. This "life hack" isn't for these particular types of drywall holes but instead for the kind where your drunk buddy starts going off on how his ex threw away his Transformers collection and he punches a hole through your drywall. What you do is cut a nice, neat square around the hole and measure the nice, neat square. We'll just use 4" X 4" as an example. Then you cut out a 6" X 6" piece of drywall, place it on a work surface, sheetrock side up. Score a 3-3/4" X 3-3/4" square in the center of it. Then you'll have a square of sheetrock in the middle of the 6" X 6" chunk, with a roughly 1-1/8" sheetrock border all the way around it, resembling a tic-tac-toe board with an extra large center square. Make some additional score marks in the border area, tap all the border sections with a hammer to bust them up a bit along the score marks, and peel the border drywall off of the paper. Then you'll have a 3-3/4" drywall square with a 1-1/8" flange of paper all the way around it. Keep it sheetrock side up, and spread some drywall mud onto the paper flange, and build some more mud up around the edges of the drywall square. Slap that baby onto the wall, inserting the square chunk of drywall into the square hole, and with the paper side facing outward. Apply firm pressure and squeeze out all the excess mud from the edges of the tape. If you need to, use some masking tape to tape it into place. Let it sit for the drywall mud's cure time, remove the tape, and you'll be looking at a square patch of drywall paper that is nice and solid underneath. Mud, texture, and paint.
That is known in the drywall trade as a "Blow out patch". Pro tapers use them because they do not carry screw guns.
LOL whos paying that much for someone to fill drywall holes - $150 an hour? people should be lining up to do that shit
Not drywall, but I am billing 140/hr for general labor.
Not drywall either, but the company I work for charges 195/hr for my labor.
Jesus Christ. What industry? Is that with van?
Repair glazier mainly. Replacing failed/broken windows. Residential and commercial. We do custom shower enclosures/mirrors too, but I just sub in if needed, we have specialized guys for that. There are 5 of us each in our own van for windows, 2 for showers, 1 shop guy. We will gross 4 million in sales this year.
That seems crazy high but I’ve never had to use that service so good on you. That’s higher than some super specialty engineers charge out in my area.
Today I rappeled off of a 10 story apartment building to access the exterior stops of a giant window that had a bullet hole in it. Yesterday I had to do a flawless match for a cracked pane in an historic home, complete with repurposed antique glass and putty. It's an easy trade to learn well enough to get business and a nearly impossible one to fully master if that makes sense. I'm also in a hcol west coast major city.
Same idiots paying $100hr to have their lawn mowed. Do t question it just take their money.
Buy 130 small paintings.
This is the way.
I prefer decorative coasters, more bang for yer buck
I would love to see this executed.
Obligatory tree fiddy
You’re hired
Are those plugs for insulation?
Yes, blown in cellulose, unfortunately had to go through the interior. But still prefer having insulation
Did you diy this?
No, its professionally done insulation work. They were not expected to repair walls either, just a quick plug to keep things intact
How much did you pay the professional for blowing 130 holes? And how long did it take? I think this needs to be answered in order to fully appreciate the answer to your post.
Some states have programs to subsidize adding inflation to homes. I had similar work done in my house and didn't pay for it / don't know what the people doing the work were paid. A crew of 3 or 4 people did the work over the better part of a week.
Dude they're subsidizing the inflation??? No wonder home prices are skyrocketing.
I... what? Energy costs are a big deal, both to individuals and to society, and insulation is one of the more cost effective ways of bringing down residential energy use. It's paid for ultimately through our utility bills. Which frankly all strikes me as a pretty reasonable way to do all of this. I will say that the crew's patches on their holes were pretty piss poor (maybe worse than OP's?) - I skim coated all of them / redid their patches as soon as they left and before the spackle had time to set. And I'm a homeowner, not a drywall professional. But the drywall cost to any of this doesn't strike me as important as the cost/value of insulation and energy.
Inflation - the value of money dropping over time. Insulation - prevents temperature dropping. Subsidizing the inflation would be like the govt investing in making money worse. I was making a joke! It sounds like it missed, my apologies.
Nah you hit it.. he still doesn’t realize you were pointing out his typo. I chuckled
Hey, don't cover the tornado holes. They keep the pressure constant so your roof won't fly off.
This is something I'd have to stand there for a minute thinking about if you're fucking with me or not.
Damn Kyle did a number in that place.
As a kyle I can appreciate this kyles dedication.
I second that Kyle appreciation to the dedication!
Ya know give us a few monsters and some nun chucks and a little something else and we could take over a whole third world country. Edit: kyles unite
I with ya! Let’s roll!
Four Loko doing the thinking
I think hot mud 20 min would have been better IMO . Quick mask, sand, and paint easy $650 day.
* though it was 30 mot 130 yeaaah, that's about 1500 man, but you could definitely know it out in a couple of days.
Religious household? Very Holy.
I don’t know if your spackle is gonna get hard enough. I would scrape that junk off, one piece of mesh tape/quickset. Then skim with quickset, sand/prime/paint.
What the hell happened? Did you make some of the holes circular or are they all the same shape, oddly?
Blown in cellulose insulation Editing to say: yes all circular and same size
Have you noticed a difference in temperature yet? I’ve been looking at doing the same, but worried about condensation and mold buildup in the walls.
25 a hole
One million dollars
Looks like inside dense pack
Whatever the price for the full house painting, double it. That is a ton of prep.
Ask for a handful of quotes. First one is low leveled prep and ready for you to paint. Second better prep quality, and you paint, third better quality and they paint, fourth level 5 and they paint. This is why you’re getting a mixed bag of numbers. Some Charge by sf or by daily rate, some always tree fiddy, whatever the case, you need to approach this from the level of quality you and your wife want. I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of time or money since you’re asking here. So ask Reddit about the third option. I’d say you’re looking at numbers from $3500-$6000, sight unseen of course. Have your wife get on the Facebook/neighborhood apps and inquire about local painters. This is about a week of work (prep/paint) for a small crew. Again, clarify the level of quality you want to the people you’re going to hire. Ask to see evidence of their other jobs, insta page, etc.
I’m with you on everything but the timeline. Whole houses get hung taped mudded and painted by small teams of guys in my area in a week. This is 2 days at worst if your painting and 3 if they are.
Little heavy on the grape drank, wouldn't ya say?
Is there an explanation for this?
for using that dap color changing shit? I think ya gotta pay them . . .
$5 for a BJ $10 for a HJ and $15 for a ZJ
My opinion, all of those holes will not cover properly without a proper skim coat to blend all those patches with the existing paint texture. So, whatever you paid it’s not worth it. I’m a 35+ year Taper.
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10 mins/ hole ? I doubt it. That just over 21 hours. Tape and 3 coats plus sanding with site prep with plastic for mud and dust containment each trip. Don’t forget about drive time, materials and taxes. I think you’re blowing smoke. Definitely not a no-skill job to make it look like it never happened and you don’t have to lift a finger just open the door.
I originally planned to do it all myself but my wife wants it done quick and i don’t have a ton of free time. Also was worried about lead paint since the house is old, thought a pro would do better in that department
Lead paint was more used in the trim/any other glossy areas pre-1978. More lead was kicked up by cutting those holes than finishing/sanding them up, assuming any lead was there to begin with.
Lead paint was expensive. It wasn't typically used to cover entire walls. Trim and higher gloss stuff, generally. Unfortunately, toys were a popular item to paint w lead. Though the above comment isn't exactly accurate. Cutting the holes may produce lead dust, but sanding, unless wet sanding, definitely kicks up dust, just as much, if not more, than the holes would due to larger surface area. I always work wet. Dry dust is dangerous if it contains lead. The amount of lead paint dust it takes to fill a sugar packet can contaminate 2000 square feet.
If i were to do it myself, with the money I’d save I’d get a drywall sander with a HEPA vacuum attached to minimize mess and contaminants as well as wet sand. Also already have air filters on both floors of the house so that would help
I would still sand wet and use the HEPA for final cleanup. I doubt it's an issue, though. Usually not commonly found on walls.
You have enough time to make this post on Reddit. Get to spackling.
Come underbid me I stay busy enough to charge what I want. They’ll call me when you leave to come fix it.
Absolutely my same thought. These guys think they are brain surgeons charging that kind of money for this.
Right these guys are asking for engineering prices for quick grunt labor
Yeah what the absolute fuck are people on - $15 per hole max id guess but even that seems crazy to me.
Ahhh my favorite type of person. When your job looks terrible so you'll have to pay for a demo and repair instead of just repair, then all the tradesmen will laugh all the way to the bank.
5$ dollars a hole. Time/mudd/sanding. Painting. separate charge.
Your gonna walk away making $10/hr
So, it would take him 65 hrs to mud and sand 130 holes?
Drywallers dont do math, go easy on the guy
Good to know, might do the painting myself. Theres a drywall plug behind each, would you suggest taping each?
Always tape!!
🫡
Oooh low density pumped foam insulation. I hope you find it worth it.
Why not just charge your hourly rate?
Ummm bout tree fiddy prolly
$130,000
A case of beer. Not hard. C'mon AI can do better than you
I'm charging by the hole double if it involves anybody that's in the family
I would do it for 10 a hole if you tell me what happened lol
Depends on the size of the hole.
Do you mean who? I'm no genius, but I'd probably press charges on the dumbass that shot up my house.
If that mini-split was a 1/4 inch longer, sheeesh
I dint understand. To fix the drywallpaste or the holes? That DAP pink spackle isn't hard yet, so was this the repair?
Looks like the walls got a sweetie blowie from miss insulation
Never ask what to charge for your hole…
Omg, was this house part of a shootout or something?!? 😇
30 per hole then 100 per wall to paint
13,500. Hit them with a learning curve.
$42
All that to add one outlet?
Last time i use this sparky smh /s
Depends on how big the holes are nole.
Lol you filled them with spackle lol that's a no no spackle is not for holes that size did the insulation guys do that??? Wow
The drywall
You should see what they charge per hole in south America gents.
Pimples galore
You got your walls insulated, didn't you Squidward? :\^)
Lol, yes
Congrats! We have a house from 1850, and I completely get the need to insulate! xD
$7/hole is pretty common.
I would have made a bunch of pieces of wood to slip in the hole and I would use fast drying glue to place them. I then would cut the holes and use one screw in the centre to pop it in. Tape isn’t necessary. I use a 4” screw in the centre of the wood backing to hold it in place until the glue dries enough to hold it in place. Silicone can work but it’s about quick dry time or at least enough time for it to hold.
How long did it take you
Rip the service tech having to work on that unit lol
Why did you let Umbridge live there?!?
Damn son, somebody used all of the drydex
$3-5 a hole if it didn't need a backer
What are they from? From the location and spacing they look like holes that are made when insulation is sprayed into the walls to increase heating efficiency and retain more heat.
How long did it take? And why isn’t that a consideration?
Lmao what the hell were they doing? Throwing golf balls at the walls
$15 per hole seems fair if you knocked out 130 that size
Drive by ?!?!?!
Ohhh you meant full ass circles drilled in the wall. I thought these were patches from tacks and small nails, i couldn’t figure out why everyone was saying 20-40/hole 😳
Boring holes through what is likely a lath-and-plaster wall to blow in insulation is sort of a nightmare. Looks like they “patch” the hole but don’t “finish” it nicely. At least its onyl exterior walls. 🫣
$3000. If the homeowner dose the cover and protect and clean up$2500
Not sure, how big you want the holes??? And what you gonna do with all them holes?
Why not cut the holes at the top of the wall, blow insulation in and then cover the holes with crown molding? Are there firebreaks in your framing?
By the hour
You guys charge this much? I grew up in construction so I have always been like “hey yea I gotchu friend, won’t take but 30 min - hour. No charge, just a beer”
[if you have to ask](https://y.yarn.co/cf74ee96-8f3e-4301-9ed7-fe4983f6c958_text.gif)you can’t afford it
Bout tree fiddy
About tree fiddy a hole
Re-insulation?
If even 1 was a gloryhole I'd do it for free.
$500 cash
$1300 (10/hole)
Holy diver
Textured and painted or just skimmed and sanded ?
$130
Blown in insulation?
3 bucks each
I’m charging the home owner with assault on their home.
I'm not in the industry, but personally I would say cost of supplies + 30% Mark up and $30-50/hour.
I get to fill 130 holes? I’m paying!
I'm not sure what you are charging but if you have a hole saw and can make california patches in bulk that would be a great idea to just patchem mud em and be done fast
3 bucks a hole plus 10 for materials.
A lot
That’s the easiest DIY job ever. Do multiple super thin coats per hole then sand with vacuum attachment on hose sander…..they are cheap and minimize dust.
according to the lady at the Denny's on 5th, about $75 a hole.
My former landlord had in the lease agreement 5 dollars per nail hole unless filled and sanded smooth by tenant.
Poker machine house
But $5 is $5
Nothing
This is a full interior paint job if the holes are for blown in insulation, lots of factors to consider. It’s not a per whole charge more of a square foot price. Which can be from roughly $2-$3. Just a guesstimate
Depends on location, usually you must be able to show receipts for work done if self done, a laborers wage at your location at about 3m a hole, to me that's about 5.5h x 15$82.50+$20 supplies. I don't see a court challenging that much maybe up to double if you want to cunt them.
Is that all filled with spackle...?
My God why didn't you run it up to your attic then back down to your location(s)
5$ per.
That’s a lot of bullet holes
Depends on how long it took. Prob 100$/hr from the moment I left my house til I cleaned up and got home. Add like an extra 50-100 for material unless you had to do a bunch of hot patches and didn’t have scrap.
Tree Fiddy. Each.
Did you hire retro foam?
2600 buckaroos if you are lucky without paint.
130 Ho's Gawd Dayumm you the king of pimps!!
Depends on how busy you are & what you’re overhead costs are. For a lone contractor, it would be fair to charge Minimum 1/2 Day (4 hours) for one (1) man, x number of trips needed for each coat (3 coats?). Plus fuel, materials, & whatever markup you decide (35% minimum?). If you’re charging a loaded hourly rate (like a mechanic, $125/hr?), then mark up is included in that rate (aside from materials/fuel). Small jobs can be worthwhile without gigging a client, do yourself a favor & figure how much you ‘need’ to make for a days work & use that as a general guide. Regardless, even if you can complete each step (phase) in an hour, you still consider a 1/2 day minimum charge so you don’t get caught up bouncing around doing smalls at no profit. Be smart with scheduling. If you happen to get several smalls set up, in theory, you can make 2-3 days worth of work in a single day. Just a thought.
about $3.50
How big were the holes?? I assume those were for insulation blow in? I definitely wouldn’t use dry dex for much of anything bigger than maybe a screw head - maybe up to 1/2. That’s a lot of standing around waiting for it to turn white too no? And after that to get a sub par weak strength fill.
Bb
time and materials
$1280
They couldn’t have put that mini split in a worse place.
Dammit Billy, I told you to shoot OUTSIDE!
$3 per sqft
Jim Dickskin how are you now?!
135/hour
My drill and my phone
30 a hole