Need Help In Competitively Pricing Jobs

newbie-mia

hi if you can't tell by the title or my username i am new to this and i am having trouble pricing jobs. i am a relitively small company and i keep loseing jobs. what should i charge per sq inch to repaint the interior of a house in miami and how much should i charge per sq inch to repaint the exterior of a house in miami. i have tried to see how much other companies are charging but they wont let me know. i guess they are afraid i will steel their business. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!

RCPainting

Spend a lot of time reading through this forum,
and here

http://www.painttalk.com/f4/pricing-...-success-2779/
Then come back and post an introduction, resist the urge to post until you have done this!

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Deadhead Derek

this will end in tears.....

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silvertree

Welcome, and you came to the rite place.
First thing is we got to get you started rite, so get a pencil and piper and rite this down.
Square inch for pint is .03 for walls, .04 ceilins and .05 for floors. Floors is harder because you got to stay in the corner till the pint dries.
Come back anytime for more prices.

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Deadhead Derek

who is the mod around here... three identical threads? and the poster is still breathing? is there no troll alarm here?

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Bodger

Now we're getting them in threes? Identical? Triplet goof price question posts?

The horror...the horror...

ChainsawCharlie

I can't help you with pricing, but maybe you can hellp me with something.

My house is roughly 288,000 sq. inches.

How many ounces of paint will i need?

Home Work Pro

Everyone Pile on!!!

BHR

Here in Ontario it's per sq centimeter - we are looking at sweeping changes and perhaps converting to sq millimeter, just for accuracy sakes. Maybe we can get a bit more $ by going millimeters maybe charge an extra .000000001 cents per.

SWAY79

Easy now CT bretherin, remember what happend to us just last month with Zombie****star?!?!?! I think there may be trend forming here......

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Bodger

Sway is right, there are forces at play who cannot resist holding what appears to us to be raw meat six inches in front of our noses.
Until we figure out it's not the real deal.
The three identical posts may well be our best clue that this is the case with this thread. Further indignity.

As I said before...The Horror...The Horror...

Just a Roofer

I measure with my micrometer & charge 0.665874 per sq. in.
I am not a painter but i did stay at a holiday inn last night.

Bodger

And don't forget, the furniture moving and pet sitting is always done for free by the painting contractor. You have to re-hang the artwork too, otherwise you'll never be competitive,

BHR

Earl Schieb will probably do it for 359.00

Mike Finley

That's some of the best advice I have gotten in a long time

All these years of frustration thinking I wasn't doing it right cause I'd paint myself into the corner and then be frustrated cause I couldn't walk on the paint without ruining it. Leave it to the pros here to finally edumicate me that the error of my ways all these years has been not knowing that you have to plan and allow for the time you have to stand in the corner waiting for the paint to dry.

Thanks guys!