Rich
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I had an estimate on having my '96 32 ft. Rexhall class A with 42K on it repainted with full body paint and painted graphics. Also, I will have new draperies with a new track installed on the windshield area, a full roof reseal and paint, a new slide topper (material replacement), the ceiling liner (carpet) re done (mastic). The estimate was 10,000 dollars....from a shop with a great reputation. Does that sound like a competitive bid?
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Gale Hawkins
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I know that kind of work is expensive.
As a gauge as to how bad it needs a paint job string a line down along side of the MH and but 12 feet from it. Then hang 100 $100 dollar bills on the line. Look at the paint and then look at the 100 $100 dollar bills and then look at the paint again and see if having both does not look pretty good. 
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rnr42005
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gale,
love your analogy!!!!!
seriously, the quote would be abit high for my area(paint job alone is $6k here).
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zoondoggie
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Gale Hawkins wrote:I know that kind of work is expensive.
As a gauge as to how bad it needs a paint job string a line down along side of the MH and but 12 feet from it. Then hang 100 $100 dollar bills on the line. Look at the paint and then look at the 100 $100 dollar bills and then look at the paint again and see if having both does not look pretty good.
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Deen
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On our DSDP the FBP was a 7-8,000 option and that was at the factory where they did it all the time. Some good shops are in the 25,000 range for just the paint job salone.
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keywestrv
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sounds like a good deal from this area
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flhtci-rider
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just a paint job on a new 22' trailer to match my coach is $3000.-$4000,
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Bruce Brown
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Having just painted our slide ends I think $10K sounds reasonable (can we use "reasonable" and "RV" in the same conversation  ). For our job alone I was around $400.00 in materials by the time you add in all the little items. Paint, clear coat, and buffing compound alone was around $275.00 and I have about 40 hours in this job. Multiply that by a complete motorhome and stuff adds up quickly. Having said that I think doing an entire MH might actually be easier than doing the slide ends after the fact.
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Joy
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It sounds reasonable to me - you are talking a lot of hours here.
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tom_kat
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labor cost are high and theres a lot of hours to do all the work you want done.
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