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Old 04-30-2009, 06:55 PM
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Dale's effort just confirms the comments I made about painters in another thread.

Cost of $2000.00 including a gun/sanders/masking etc. and I'd guess the plastic film to protect his spray booth.

That leaves change of $13000.00 from a $15000.00 pro spray job. What's a pro painters hourly rate?. Usually it's the laborers/apprentices who do the bulk of sanding and blowing the primer on, so lets say $60.00 an hour.

Give one full day to the pro to blow the final coats/stripe etc.

So .. $13000/$60.00 = 216.6 hours ..... or approx 5.5 weeks full time work on the car.... I don't think so.

My comments are justified.
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