How much for your paint jobs and were you happy?

How much have people been paying for paint? Not powder coating but refinishing by a proper builder/shop. And were you happy with the service, colour match and such?

bob jackson, 5 times, various colours, and fades with and without stickers from £90 +postage to £150 +postage, happy with all jobs

argos, 5 times, single colours and fade, with/without stickers, on average 160 to 230 depending on the job, only one cock up, and that was the only time i didn't drop it in personally. i asked for a near flouro green, got mushy pea green.

TJC (graphic shacks painter) used tim once, my most recent job, clockwork fade including stickers, spot on, £155 very happy.

First time – Armourtex Ltd, Hackney, London.

£120 for a custom 'sparkle/green chameleon' powder coat. Was considering Argos, Mercian, Bob Jackson, Orange, but was put off by the costs of shipping, etc and the timescales involved at the time.

I felt the price was a bit over the odds for a variable quality finish - thick to thin in places. Found a few tiny dings on the frame which I couldn't account for.
But I was on crutches at the time so it was difficult to go and argue the toss. I think £120 could have afforded a bit more care and attention to quality control overall.

Still, it was all done in 4 days and the custom coat looks fab in brilliant sunlight (if we ever get any).

Their strip/dip/burn-off/blast process cleaned up the frame quite nicely inside and out – the frame was noticeably lighter after the work and chimed like a bell.

Applied decals myself on top of the new coating.

Have been commuting 165 miles per week for the past 3 months without any damage to the coating yet – not even from chain slap going over London's old rickety pot-holed roads.

Woodrups, Leeds, £120 with new decals. (My Roberts Genesis- very happy with it, have a feeling that they may just ship it up the road to Bob Jacksons though. My intention was to take it to Bob J's but it was a Wednesday and they were closed, so dropped it at woodrups instead, both Bob's and woodrups have a long standing good reputation as frame builders in Leeds so it wasn't a 'that'll do' sort of choice)

A car body shop about 5 minutes drive from my house so no postage worries or costs. They have done some custom paint jobs on motorbikes including decal application for team replicas so I was fairly confident they would do a decent job.
They sprayed my Dekerf Implant (in my sig), black with gold flake including decal application for £100. They were happy to spend time talking through what I wanted and did several test sprays to make sure the colour and amount of metal flake was right. I'll definitely be using them again

Painted at home with decent paint from a paint supplier.
Paint is soft and chips very easily. Cost was circa £90 including decals.
Not recommended

Painted at home with rattle can its a 10 footer but it ran me in at 30 quid. Quite happy but paint is soft and scratches real easy

10 footer?

Looks good from 10 feet away a term commonly used to describe women in nightclubs and slightly dodgy paint jobs lol

I had Bob Jackson do mine, it was pricey as I paid for the collection and delivery option. I paid about £150 for a single colour respray and fitting of decals, courtesy of gil_m, I was very pleased with the result.

Alison