Painters What Would You Charge

A.W.Davis

Hey guys just curious what you might charge to paint this house, the house is 1,350 sqaure feet with 8' walls. I am just curious.

The work

*customer is supllying paint*

1) prep and paint walls and ceilings in hallway, dining room, office, guest bedroom, master bedroom, master bathroom (whole cieling was just retextured)
2) prep and paint new 6" mdf baseboard throughout entire house, minus laundry room
3) prep and paint 4 1/2" tall crown in dining room and living room area
4) prep and paint 4 new window sills picture framed with 2 1/4" colonial casing
5) prep and spray 8 new interior 6 panel doors
6) prep and paint 8 door jambs


I think thats it

I was thinking ballpark figure to be somewhere around $11,000 for all work described above....how close am I? And no I am not going to take on a painting job, I suck at painting

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slickshift

Well, you're a CG so this'll make sense
There's two prices

One, as a sub
Obviously my costs are lowered as you paid for the advertising, sold the job, get to hold the customer's hand, bill them, collect the dough, etc...
I don't need to charge as much

The other if it was all me
My ads, my estimate, my sale, etc...
That'd be more

And just on a side note, "customer supplying the paint" never lowers the price
It always raises it
Always

They never buy the right amount, they always keep me waiting for it, they think it's such a great money saver and labor only then I tell them I need $75-$125 worth of sundries....
Then there's no control over the paint quality
Cheap paint slows me down, might take extra coats, can't be used and pushed like the good stuff...
Customer supplies paint is a huge unknown
My price goes up a minimum 30%, usually 50% w/o blinking if the customer supplies the paint

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