Question On Painting House

davinci

i have a siding job,at least a potential siding job. however,the homeowner may decide to have the home(outside) painted. of course he will give the job to me. that siad,i know nothing about cost.i am having another guy do the job but need to know what the heck the average rate is for painting a house. do you guys charge by the square as i do with siding? any inout would be much appreciated.

d-rez

If you are subing the paint to another contractor, why don't you ask them? I am not trying to be a smart ass, but that will give you the most accurate number. It's going to be hard for anyone to give a number since there are so many unknowns: one storey or five, one color or six, how much masking off, trees in the way, etc.

plazaman

have your guy look at the exterior and give you a quote, add 10-15% on that, thats your bid

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Tao_Rider

10 - 15%?? That won't cover cost of doing business. If you can't ad 30%+, you are better off just refering the painter to the homeowner and stay out of the middle of it. mike

davinci

my guy quoted me 5,500 including paint and materials for 28 square.

tcleve4911

55k + 40% or pass the job on to him ask for a finder's fee..........

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Michaeljp86

In the painting section I had a thread like this. I have a house that needs painting, about 2500sqft and I was thinking $6-6500 but that was scraping the old paint off. I looked at the house and Im even thinking that may be to cheap. Probably be just as cheap to put vinyl up by the time you scrape it.

5500 would probably be about right for a easy paint job. You should make 1k atleast so charge the HO $6500-7k.

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