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Making $350 - $500 each day as a house painter is much less easy as some might have you believe in the residential/commercial realm - even if you certainly are a larger contractor with a crew. But once you learn several drywall/plaster repair secrets, making this type of money is very possible. I know. I have done it. Allow me to explain.

As a painting business owner over the drywall contractors dc, I are finding a niche in my business where people will suffer from their drywall or plaster and they are totally clueless on how to correct it themselves. Sure, you will come across those who tried, but the conclusion results always turned out to be butt-ugly!

Plenty of the drywall in homes built from the 1980?s and all the way around today have issues. Things like water damage, loose tape seams, nail pops, etc. One common reason for water damage could be because of a leaky upstairs shower.

Also, it's not uncommon for a new home to are having issues leak somewhere on the roof that is maybe letting water in. The water travels down the wall and wrecks area of the ceiling and wall in less room in a short period of time.

Maybe the client wants to market their house. They get the roof leak fixed and now that is where you and I come in. You've done some free advertising like word-of-mouth, you obtain referrals, you've a small ad in the phone book or from online advertising, etc. and you obtain a call.

Next you go over and look at the problem. In their front foyer you see several minor tape seams which are loose and a small part of textured ceiling that really needs to be fixed and re-duplicated using a common crows foot texture. The customer has touch up paint left for it. They are motivated to get it fixed to allow them to sell your house and buy another one.

You eyeball it as about a times labor. You offer to fix it for say around $335.00. They say yes and you schedule it for the next day or whenever.

You come the first day for approximately an hour and tear out the bad, execute a quick deep-fill and put a fan on it overnight to simply help it dry. You then go back the next day and you spend 6 hours re-coating, and drying it with a heat gun or hairdryer etc. You get the job done in 7 hours total and your net profit is $320 out of $335 because materials needed was basically just some drywall compound, gas to get back and forth and they'd leftover paint.

Other scenarios may be older homes which have broken plaster. These may be surprisingly easy and fun to repair. Again, they call you, you go over and look at it. You count up the full time (8 maybe 10 hrs. or so) and materials (usually dirt-cheap) and you let them have a figure of $500 - $600 because of the size of the repair.

They give you the go ahead and you pencil them into your schedule. You finish the job in 9 hours and you make 95% profit. Other common plaster repairs may be large cracks in plaster ceilings. A common problem which can be easy to correct once you learn how.

Other common washington dc drywall repair jobs may be texturing walls and ceilings. Two guys working together will make good quality money at this. Additionally there are small jobs hanging and finishing sheet rock in basements or garages. They could want one to paint it afterwards as well.

People do not know anything about drywall/plaster repair. They expect it to be somewhat costly. Jobs look harder than they are but when you learn how to do them its duck soup for you personally!

You go in and spend 1-3 hours tearing out the old part just like a surgeon, patching and doing a deep fill. You go back the next day for some more hours, maybe back again a next day to finish, paint, etc. and get paid.