Painting Tips
How to Value a Painting Business
Most painting businesses are worth considerably less than their owners assume, and the reason is almost always the same. What is being sold is not…
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Tips, guides, and advice for painting contractors on pricing, estimating, and growing your business.
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Painting Business Financing: Where the Money Comes From
Painting is a trade with low barriers to entry and a persistent appetite for cash. You buy materials before you get paid, you pay wages…
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Sales Tax on Painting Services: What Painters Charge
This is the tax question painters get wrong most often, and the reason is not carelessness. It is that the answer genuinely differs depending on…
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Should a Painter Form an LLC? The Honest Answer
Ask this question in a trade forum and you will get two confident answers. Form one immediately, because otherwise your house is on the line.…
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Quarterly Taxes for Painters: How the Instalments Work
Working for someone else, tax comes out before you ever see the money. Working for yourself, the whole payment lands in your account and none…
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Painting Business Tax Deductions: What Actually Counts
There are two ways to get deductions wrong. One is to miss real costs, and pay tax on money you never kept. The other is…
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Painting Business Taxes: What You Owe and When
Most painters do not get into trouble with tax because they tried to dodge it. They get into trouble because the money was spent before…
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New Construction vs Repaint: Why the Same Rates Do Not Work
New construction and repaint work look like the same trade. Same products, same tools, same skills, often the same crew. They are priced as though…
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Buying vs Renting Painting Equipment: The Utilization Test
Every painter eventually stands in a hire shop working out whether to keep paying day rates or just buy the thing. The decision usually gets…
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Painting Business Vehicle Costs: What the Van Really Takes
Ask a painter what the van costs and most will answer with fuel. Fuel is visible, it is paid for weekly, and it is almost…