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what does it mean when someone tells you they are not looking for a show car paint job?
so runs , fish eyes , dust, wavy body work and all the other bad is ok? or is it that the lower quality of work that will start to fail a year or so down the road that's ok?
estimates are just that ruffly about maybe the cost. try looking up the definition !
it always makes me wonder when someone says they are upset because the end of the job bill was more that the estimate.
you fine an estimator with ex-ray vision that can see thru your old cars finish to know just what is under it then and only then would you start getting confirmed quotes for restoring cars.
10K can easily be just the cost in materials to repaint a car. at over 200$ just for one QT of base and that doesn't include the reducer or primer primer hardener , clear , clear cost hardener or the reducer for the clear. you can drop an easy 6 to 8K on just the sprayable products. that doesn't include things like sand paper , grinding disc's , body filler's , and so on.
a 135$ an hour labor rate is about average for a shop. when a lawyer has the same high cost of overhead as a shop does they will start charging you 10 times what they charge now.
just for my two man shop my electric bill last month was over 1700$ my heating bill in the cold winter months to run the booth just to paint one car is more than I pay to heat our hole house for a month. and where is the heat going right out the exhaust stack of the booth.
what lawyer has to pay 1500$ to just change his spray booth filters every 60 hours of uses? and then the old filters are now hazardous material so your not just sticking them in the trash.
what lawyer is dishing out over 2000$ a month in just insurance? they don't have highly flammable products in there lawyers off like paints gas in cars and so on.
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