Painter/Decorator required Swansea Area

[acd80]

Does anyone on here have any recommendations for painters who cover the SA3 area? Looking to get a bedroom and hallway/stairs/landing done in the next month or so.

[acd80]

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[Squadrone Rosso]

Used to have an R8 owning pal called Andrew Evans do ours when we lived there. 14 years ago but I still see him around .

http://www.andrewevanspainting.co.uk/

[acd80]

Squadrone Rosso said:

Used to have an R8 owning pal called Andrew Evans do ours when we lived there. 14 years ago but I still see him around .

http://www.andrewevanspainting.co.uk/

Just seen your post. I contacted him for a quote over 2 weeks ago and he never got back to me. I've contacted about a dozen painter/decorators in Swansea/surrounding area. I've had 4 responses. One guy couldn't do the work until later in the year which was fair enough. Of the other three, one was taking the proverbial with his pricing. Of the other two, they were similar in pricing but I've got the guy who was polite, showed up when he said he would and gave me the quote when he said he would. The other one I gave up on after asking him for the quote repeatedly despite him assuring me he'd have the quote for me the very next day.

Another PHer did give me a recommendation but the guy only does it as a sideline and a job that's going to take about 2 weeks full-time wouldn't be workable as a part-time job.

I really don't get it with tradesmen in Swansea. It's not as if I wanted my entire house painted for £400. There's a couple of grand's worth of work going at least with probably another 1k's worth later on in the year.

[Tuvra]

Good Decorators are always hard to come by. My other halfs dad used to work for E.G.Lewis doing mainly commercial jobs with a bit of residential thrown in. He left E.G.Lewis for certain reasons (which I suspect was down to work in the steel works slowing down) and since that time he hasn't looked back.

I had a colleague with 2 weeks of internal work and a further week of external work, when I offered it to him on a plate he said he wasn't interested due to his current work load. He's basically subbing to one big company and then has a big back log of residential customers waiting for his services. As hes 56 hes not too bothered about taking on extra men and the stresses that come with it, instead he turns the work down.

So yeah, good decorators are in demand and hard to come by

[Rickyy]

If you are still looking for someone I know a very good decorator. He is based around Bridgend I think, but I worked with him on a job in Bristol this week, so is imagine he'd come to Swansea.

[acd80]

I've got one doing the job as we speak. I'm out of the country so won't see it until it's completed next week. If he's as good as I think he is, he'll have more work going his way soon. I fully understand the being busy bit but it's common decency to return emails/phone calls etc.