If you are living in a landed property like Semi-D, Terrace house and Bungalow, you may know that doing a painting job is fairly expensive for landed properties.
As most of the Singaporeans lived in HDBs or condos, the painting cost can be estimated range from our past work with thousands of HDBs and condo homes.
The cost of painting a landed property can go as high as SG $15,000. It was a result of a number of reasons that made made it so costly.
Explanations why Landed House Painting ServicesAre So Costly:
1) Exterior Wall Painting: This is the big trigger why painting a landed property is so much costly than a HDB and condo. Because the exterior walls are subjected to weather, and thus corrosion is at it’s best with weather. As Singapore is a tropical island where raining occurs a good deal of time throughout the year, with the strong sun acting on the exterior walls, all the more you may need strong lasting paint that can protect your exterior wall. A thing you need to note is that the more sides u have for your exterior walls, the more it will cost.
2) Scaffolding: It’s part of the reason why exterior wall painting is so expensive is due to using of scaffolding for the landed properties. There are three categories of scaffolding painting contractors generally use.
3) Two Or More Levels: Almost all landed properties in Singapore are generally 2 levels, though we have painted one and three levels properties before. It just means that there are more interior walls to paint. The more wall surfaces in your house the more labour and paint we have to buy. Some landed properties have lots of extra interior walls, thus increase in the cost as well.
I know that if I tell you that painting your landed property cost about $15K, it is possible to consider doing it. But the thing is that not all the landed property will reach that price either. For landed property we would actually insist on viewing before quoting, as we not able to give quote without physically view and access the whole landed property.
There is one more thing, the usual practice in Singapore is that the majority of the exterior painting will come with 5 years warranty, but this will not be given if your landed property is near to the coast or sea side, as the air around the coast is very salty making corrosion speeds up. So if there is some painting contractor supplying you with a 5 year warranty when your property is near the coast, please do be careful.
Finally an appropriate exterior painting finish will definitely help to increase the value of your landed property and help increase the perceived value to much higher.