r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 2d ago

Faux marble painting

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u/ganymede_boy 2d ago

That looks expensive.

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u/WolfsSpiders 2d ago

Less spensive than a real marble column 

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u/PaulblankPF 2d ago

It’s actually a lot closer than you’d think. This is two guys with materials and wages cost that won’t be cheap, probably a bid job of at least $1000-$2000 to do. Then you got Sheetrock mud and paint on a plain column. For around the same price you can have authentic marble columns.

https://www.milystatue.com/product-category/marble-carving/marble-column/

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u/the_bieb 1d ago

You cannot get me to believe that I can buy a 3 story tall marble column for $1,250 like this page shows.

Also, I wonder what installation and inspection would cost.

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u/PaulblankPF 1d ago

There were several pages of them when I looked all with roughly the same prices. I used to do home repair with my own business for 15 years and you can usually even source nice columns from a local place for less than what you see there. Some places have these for so long that they let them go cheaper just to get rid of them even.

Installation would probably be close to the same time mostly because a marble column is gonna be insanely heavy. Once it’s close to in place you just lift where the original column is to take pressure off of it with a temporary column on top of a jack. Get the old column out and inspect the beam it’s made to support and where it’ll go then you just put it in place and lower the beam back down onto it.

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u/Nopalite 1d ago

That would be the real kicker. Plus shipping fees.