How house painting works

Paint rooms, walls, roofs and boundary walls for homes and small businesses, with neat prep and clean-up.

Who it suits: Neat, fit, hands-on people who take pride in a clean finish and do not mind ladders.
Who pays: Homeowners, landlords, small shops and churches.
What they get: A fresh, neat finish without the owner doing it themselves.
Is there demand?: SA painting guides put labour-only rates at about R40 to R100 a square metre (PaintingPrice, SA Property Tools), with full jobs quoted per room or house (Procompare, Rapid Painters).
Real examples: Interior rooms and ceilings

Boundary walls and gates

Roof painting

Rental units between tenants

A good sign: three paid jobs in a month.

Do it now

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Pick an answer to see how you did.

In a typical case, how long until the first money comes in?

Your challenge

Paint one room for a friend and time it.

You are done when:

You report this yourself. Nobody checks, so it only counts if you really did it.

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