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How to Price Painting Elevator Doors and Frames
In an apartment building, hotel, office or hospital, the elevator lobby is one of the most looked at spaces in the building. The doors are…
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How to Price Painting Metal Lockers
Rows of metal lockers line school corridors, gym locker rooms, factory break rooms, fire stations and employee areas. Over the years they fade, chip, rust…
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How to Price Painting Restroom Partitions
Scratched, faded and graffiti covered toilet partitions are one of the first things customers notice in a restaurant, school, office or gym restroom. Replacing them…
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How to Price Painting Roll Up and Overhead Doors
Every warehouse, fire station, storage facility, auto shop and loading dock has overhead doors, and sooner or later the owner wants them painted. They are…
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How to Price Painting Metal Buildings
Metal buildings are the workhorses of commercial and agricultural property: shops, barns, warehouses, churches, storage buildings and small factories. After enough years in the sun,…
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How to Price Painting CMU Block Walls
Concrete block walls are everywhere in commercial work. Gyms, warehouses, schools, stairwells, corridors, mechanical rooms and the backs of retail stores are built from them.…
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How to Price Painting Hollow Metal Doors and Frames
On a commercial job, the doors and frames rarely look like the big item. The walls are where the gallons go, the ceilings are where…
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How to Price Painting Textured Walls
Textured walls are everywhere in residential painting. Orange peel, knockdown, skip trowel and heavy hand troweled finishes are standard in many regions and many decades…
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How to Price Painting Plantation Shutters and Louvered Doors
Interior plantation shutters, louvered closet doors and louvered bifolds share one quality that makes them slow: they are made of dozens of thin slats, each…
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How to Price Painting Interior Windows
Windows are one of the classic places painters lose money. On a walkthrough, a window is one item on a wall. On the job, it…