Painting and decorating work in Co. Mayo
Painting is measured in rooms and days rather than hours, and the money is made or lost in preparation: filling, sanding and masking take longer than the paint and decide how the finish looks a year later. Clients judge on edges and cut-ins, not on coverage.
Rural work looks different from city work, and the difference is worth knowing before you start. Properties are bigger, jobs take longer and pay more per visit, and you travel further between them — so the professionals who do well here build a round in a few towns rather than chasing single jobs across the county.
What comes up in this trade
- Interior rooms, one at a time or whole houses
- Exterior walls and woodwork in the dry months
- Repainting before a property is sold or let
- Wallpapering and feature walls
What the work needs
- Your own brushes, rollers, dust sheets and access equipment
- Preparation time quoted honestly, because it is most of the work
How it works for you
- You choose which requests to take — nobody assigns you work
- You set your own price with the client directly
- You keep the client afterwards; there is no commission on the job
- You say which areas you cover, so you are not offered work an hour away