How to estimate interior paint jobs

Estimating interior wall painting 

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™. 

* All figures/values shown are just an example. 
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February 8th 2022, by  s e r v v i a n.