Derrick walked me through his process. Gave me samples of color coating. However whe we initially discussed my project, he would not give me a written proposal until the sandblasting was done. He told me he has worked in the past on houses in this area with texture coating, same age- I asked what would the lo dollar appx be $2200 (a $1K or so for the sandblast)and what would the high dollar appx be $4400. That gave me an idea of what I was looking at as a whole (appx $5k) for this project. I darn near fell out of my chair after I paid $1600 for the sandblast and he wanted $7300 for color coat. Got it done for the $4400 by a qualified company that was willing to give me a proposal upfront. Job was done using good quality material. I was surprised that the owner would try to guilt me into his price because he gave me samples. Then took off $1200 for a total of $6100 becasue he would do it at cost. I would have never taken it a step further if I was told it could possibly cost over $5k total. Especially after a couple people told me they had the same work done (remove texture coat and skim/apply texture coat) for right around $5k. Just whose numbers I asked for??Got the job done for just under the initial $4400 we had originally discuseed. BE CAREFUL GET EVERYTHING IN WRITING FIRST BEFORE YOU THINK ABOUT STARTING!
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