Painting Tips
How to Price Repairs on a Painting Job
Every painter eventually pushes a scraper into a window sill and feels it sink. The paint looked tired, the estimate allowed for scraping and priming,…
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How to Price Painting Jobs in Condo Buildings
A two bedroom condo is a small interior. Priced as a small interior, it often loses money, because the painting is the easy part. Getting…
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How to Price a Rush Painting Job
A customer who needs the house painted before a sale closes, a move in, a party or a tenant arrives is not buying paint on…
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How to Charge for Moving Furniture When Painting
Every interior estimate contains an assumption about the furniture, whether it says so or not. Either the rooms will be empty, or the customer will…
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How to Price Color Changes on a Painting Job
A room repainted in the color it already is and the same room changed from a deep red to an off white are two different…
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How to Price Access Equipment for Painting Jobs
Height does not only change which ladder comes off the van. It changes how fast the crew works, how often everything has to move, what…
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How to Charge for Travel Time on Painting Jobs
Two identical rooms, one ten minutes from the yard and one an hour away, are not the same job. The paint is the same, the…
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The Painting Estimate Rate Card
Every painting business has a rate card. In most of them it lives in one person head, gets recalled slightly differently each time, and cannot…
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How to Run a Second Painting Crew
Going from one crew to two is the single biggest structural change a painting business makes, and it is usually made in a hurry because…
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Who Should Quote Small Painting Jobs
A request to paint one bedroom takes the same phone call, the same drive, the same survey and roughly the same paperwork as a request…