How To Calculate Price Per Square Foot For Painting (THE EASIEST WAY)

[abl]

Boom, these are some of the best price breakdowns . Thanks man for sharing your knowledge

[intertubicular]

I charge what I want. I know just looking at a job how much I want. You're overthinking the estimating process and probably losing money and workers in the process. Nobody wants to feel rushed or timed when working.
Charge what a job is worth to you and your help. This makes for a pleasant, relaxed, and professional work environment for you, your workers, and the customers. I don't lead by speed, price, or math. I lead by doing clean, quality work. The job takes as long as it takes!

[joshuastorrs]

I live in Detroit. I charge $1 for CHB, $2 for promar 200, $3 for emerald. Usually about $500-$1000 for taping mudding and sanding, $50/sheet of drywall…. I have an entire pricing list and surprisingly I’m only a little hi on my emerald according to your math…. But it’s emerald and my best guys do the finish coat

[toya]

Thank you so much! This has really helped me out!! Thanks a mill

[smileyhomeimprovementsjohn]

What about the cost of insurances( liability, workers com, covers, tapes, brushes, rollers....???

[Vadha]

are you generalizing, because i don't see you adding in material costs, and markups on paint. 98 cents per sq foot is extremely cheap. Look anywhere online and the price per sq ft ranges from $2-$6with around $3.50 being average. Plus i don't see you pricing in prep time and cleanup, or furniture moving, wall repair or anything. Theres no way anyones finding someone to get in a house and paint a 400 sq ft room in 3 hours, it takes at least an hour just to prep and half hour at least to clean up. Plus the tools need to be cleaned at some point in that day as well.

[JosephRostkowski]

Bids on painting is like golf advise 😂 too many variables to have an exact algorithm 😮 main goal always expected murphy to show up with laws, and charge what you need to charge to make money( shoot mid 90s) ! If the estimate on the job concerns you before you dip a brush, walk away your over your head and will loose chasing the money😮 ! HIGH BIDS REQUIRE HIGH EXPECTATIONS, LOW BIDS GET YOU IN TROUBLE!

[gersonvalverde]

do you charge floor square foot or or walls and ceilling squate ft? i have a client wanting to buy the painting and have a breakdown what would you do

[emdieselify]

quick question,
what if the customer gives you total sq ft of the walls which are 8000 sq ft. and the ceilings are 2000 sq ft. how would i go about charging the customer with that much sq ft coverage?

[KrystalJasmine]

Can you plz give an estimate on 2 story home and 2500sqft home? Stucco based. Thank you.

[eduardovelasco]

Thanks for the info. Sir.
I would like you to help me with a bid that i am currently participating.
Do you have any personalized services like zoom meeting?

[joemama-kxrk]

I'm guessing its wall sq ft not floor sq ft ...right?

[davidzwicker]

I’m telling you, trust me . You can’t get a painter to paint at that speed for 8 hrs.
The math is not absolute and probably flawed.
I guarantee I have year round work. Lol
I sprayed 12 k sq. Ft. Of primer $600 material .
What’s the price?
Based on your math 1 guy at $25 would make more on closets and ceilings than I get for the job

[Pollockdinner]

"Im going to break this down so a fifth grader will understand" proceeds to do long division

[alext]

This is so bad. There is no break down for moving all their stuff. Taking plates on and off may not seem like a lot have to take 200 off and back on say 30 seconds a plate off and 30 seconds back on a min per plate. That's adding 200 minutes not including moving locations and all the up/downs. What about the price of traps and the time to cover everything. This is probably only somewhat helpful for a completely empty house with zero prep and no pride in your work. Normal paint is 4-8 depending on prep and 9-13 on upscale homes. Good luck getting paid if you don't do it right every time. 50% markup I would lose money bidding a job at that price.

[cleveracosta]

50% profit should be where your 33% is
Your 50% profits, are actually 100% profits.

If you spend .49 cents and make. 49 cents profit, that's .98 cents, that 100% gains

FYI (SORRY) 🙈

[MikeCrosby-xs]

The only way I would ever pay you $1, 500 to teach me something is if there was a 2000 rebate

[jesselpz]

Ok so 74 cents sqf commercial this is one coat only?

[swamphox]

that some low pricing. .98 is 100% margin NOT 50%

[ethanadams]

I don’t see how 98 cent a square foot is profitable ? That’s just ridiculous does anyone feel this way ?