It’s time to learn the value of production rates when learning how to estimate interior paint jobs. Year after year your costs may change, but production timing stays the same. Tracking your painters production timing is key to creating an accurate interior estimate. It is important to keep records for each item of service your company performs with its production timing, and application style. This is whether brush, roll, spray-back-roll, or spray. As an example painting 8′ walls will have a faster production time than painting 17′ walls. The use of ladders can slow productivity by 25%-50% in some cases.
Example production speeds per hour Brush/roll 8′ walls: 400 SF per hour Brush/roll 17′ walls: 200 SF per hour
Once you know how many hours each item of service will take, you can add up all man-hours and multiply them by your company hourly sell rate. The use of BreakEven PLUS™Cost Setup will help you establish your own custom average hourly sell rate along sell rates for each painter. The example below will showcase how to estimate interior paint jobs with BreakEven PLUS™.