How much does spraying walls cost?

What the price for spraying walls is made up of

The price per square metre is an average of three items: preparation, spraying and materials. The spraying itself is quick. What takes time is everything around it: covering and masking floors, frames, sockets and furniture, filling holes and cracks, and priming the walls where needed. In a home with many doors, windows and corners, the price per square metre is therefore higher than for a large, empty wall.

What pushes the price up or down

• Size: a complete home is cheaper per square metre than a single room.
• Surface: new plaster or glass fibre wallcovering needs different preparation from an existing latex coat.
• Colour change: going from a dark to a light colour may need an extra coat.
• Occupied or empty: spraying in an empty home saves a lot of covering up.

Height counts too. In an Amsterdam upper-floor flat or a 1930s house with high ceilings, there is more wall area per room and a mobile scaffold is often needed. A new-build flat with a standard ceiling height is finished faster per room.

Spraying or rolling for your budget

For a complete home or a new-build property, spraying is often the most efficient choice. For a single room in a furnished home, rolling can be cheaper, because the masking then weighs more heavily. The difference in look and the practical consequences are explained on spraying or rolling latex. If ceilings are involved too, see spraying a ceiling.

Remember VAT when doing your sums. Oranje Kwast's prices exclude VAT. For a home that is more than two years old, the labour usually falls under the 9% rate and the materials under 21%. If in doubt, check the current rate on belastingdienst.nl.

What does Oranje Kwast charge?

The amounts above are a national market indication. Oranje Kwast works with fixed prices per square metre, all amounts excluding VAT:

• Walls: €17 per m²
• Ceilings: €20.65 per m²

The minimum charge per job is €300 excluding VAT. The final price follows the free consultation; the quote form gives you an instant price indication.

A tailored price

A price per square metre from the internet is a starting point, not a quote. During the free consultation, our painter looks at the walls and the surface and discusses which latex is suitable. Within 48 hours of that walk-through you receive a written quote with no surprises afterwards. For the wider price picture of walls, ceilings and interior woodwork, you can also look at what interior painting costs. You can see an example of the end result in the interior painting in Zaandam.