53?? Harvey Way
Long Beach, CA 90808
Painting – Interior
Work Completed Date: June 26, 2011
Approximate Cost: $1,000.00
Removed wallpaper and painted one bedroom
With wallpaper from the mid-80’s starting to peel off the walls, I suggested to my mother that we paint the room. I was moving home and was going to use the room, and while I would’ve been okay with living with it temporarily, we needed to clear the room anyway to move my stuff in so I thought it might be a good opportunity to get it done now rather than later. My mother and I had planned on doing the work ourselves, but once we started, we found there was wallpaper under the old wallpaper and we realized we really didn’t have the time to figure it out nor the energy to do it. My mother called House Painting on Wednesday and they said they could come on Saturday morning to see the room and give us a quote, and if we were okay with it, they would start right away. We’d hoped to keep the cost of having the room painted at around $600, but with the removal of the added layer(s) of wallpaper, we thought the price was pretty fair. Removing the remaining wallpaper took two guys one full day (hearing all the scraping all day made us thankful we didn’t decide on doing it ourselves), on Sunday only one came back to paint the walls, closet doors, trim and ceiling. When my mother went to check on the guy thinking he was close to being done, she found the room was already finished and he was wiping down the hardwood floor to get what he could of the dust, meaning my mother didn’t have to do it (she was fully expecting she would have to). The room came out looking better than what my mother and I could have hoped to do ourselves. There are more sections of the house where we’d like to get rid of the wallpaper and paint, and my mother is happy enough that she’s already planning on calling them back when we’ve saved up the money. We’re thinking of getting the exterior of the house done further down the road