Advice on painting 1.5km2 of plasterboard

[saveasteading]

The decorating quote is far beyond budget. 

The plasterboard area is enormous and so is the rate.

 

We don't have the diy time to take it all on ourselves.

But maybe with the investment in a quality spray machine which would be a lot of cost on a smaller project but worthwhile here?

Recommendation on the machine?

 

How much faster would that be? 

What don't we know?

Perhaps even just the mist coat to get the ' easy' bit done.

Perhaps at least we do the very high areas (off a cherry picker) where no-one will see.

 

 

 

[Mr Punter]

Spraying is quick but the prep can take ages.  Also, any touching in looks bad and tape and fill jointing really shows up under some lighting.  I had some houses sprayed and they had a team of 4 with 1 guy on the nozzle.

[saveasteading]

32 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

the prep can take ages

We will definitely have the tape and joint by others, and lighting will be set well off wall faces to avoid shadowing.

 

What were the other 3 doing?

[Mr Punter]

7 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

What were the other 3 doing?

Opening and stirring paint, moving hoses, cleaning up, moving sprayer, demasking.  They were 3 x 3 storey houses.  The spraying was less than 2 days.  A lot of paint.  They also had a roller that was fed paint by a hose that they used for rendered walls, so no faffing with a scuttle.

[Ed_]

Do you mean 1500m2 not 1.5km2?!

 

I have sprayed before with a low quality DIY sprayer and I would not do it again, that was slower than rollering in the end I think.

Check out youtube to see what a good quality sprayer does, easy to see why its 3 times the setup compared to the spraying time.

[saveasteading]

2 hours ago, Ed_ said:

not 1.5km2?

Yes it's about 1,500m2.somebody had mentioned that rather large area and I was impressed by the magnitude, couldn't be bothered to calculate it, and it does grab the attention

 

1,500 to 2,000 is about right in an off the top of the head sum.

 

Btw we really have used 10km of timber.

 

I'll be asking for recommended paint brands soon. Not expecting it to be farrow and ball.