2 Questions About Painting

carriot0007

Hello to all i have 2 questions
1- First question: im going to star painting by my self i have 5 years of experience and i want to know how measuring exactly the square foot of the room for do the estimate price? foe example my room have 2 walls of the 12 F and 2 walls of the 11 F and the high 8 F how get the measuring?

2 - Second question: how much is right now the price for the square foot ? I im in South Florida ( West Palm Beach to Miami )
the price is with the paint included or without materials ? Thanks alot people

EMCustom

1- I know math is hard to learn even with 5 yrs experience but here goes- length x height of long wall + length x height of short wall. then multiply by 2 for the total sqft of walls

2- $18.71/sqft, materials extra

good luck bro

Joewho

2 walls, 12ft. long = 24 ft. OK? 24ft. x 8 ft = 192 square feet (sq.ft.)
2 walls, 11 ft. long =22 ft. 22 x 8 = 176 square feet.

192 + 176= 368 sq. ft.

Don't forget, windows and doors don't get painted, hopefully, and you can also multiply the Height times the Width, just like the walls.

DPainting

NICE

4thGeneration

I can only comment on this by saying you must be on some really good smoke to charge $18.71 a foot or atleast you hope the homeowners are

Richard

going price up here per square is around $3-4.

good luck with starting up...it's not always easy

Dave Mac

if you have five years exp, you should be able to make a very reasonable guess on how long it will take you to paint, so just figure much you want to make in that period of time, and add in materials.

premierpainter

What the?

carriot0007

Oh Thanks to all the people here i got so many help from you guys thanks alot

boman47k

Soldz??

Workaholic

Soldz? could it be? I am still waiting for my roll of wall paper

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boman47k

I was thinking the same thing!

shadowsjoe

This post should be a sticky. Labled as "Newbie Post Painting 101"

And this post was very helpful to me as a new painter. My cousin is a realitor and swore up and down that my formula for adding up sq ft was wrong. She calculated floor sq ft. and confused the hell out of me until I found this post.
She said "There is no way that room could be 480 square feet. That would make that room nearly half the size of the last house I lived in."
Thankyou so much for such a simple conclusion! BEFORE I RIPPED MY FREAKING HAIR OUT!!!

boman47k

Shadow, do not forget the ceiling, if it is included in the job. L x W

Brian

So a 10 x 10 room is $5,987 plus materials(40x8x18.71). And my customers think my prices are high!

You are right, good luck bro.

Brian Phillips

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