Price Per Square Foot

thom

How does one put 44 windows and 13 exterior doors into a 2300 sf house? I'm surprised there's any siding to paint.

SLSTech

Chaulking Symptoms The paint system shows a powdery surface.
Solution Remove powder at the surface. Clean and sand substrate. Touch up bare spots with [Onol resp. Rubbol Grund]. Finish - once or twice - with [Rubbol SB].

Sounds like a lot of work before painting...

Seriously though
2 Colors - 1 trim, 1 base with 57 openings. That is a lot of work, cutting in, etc... I would hope that you choose the painter based off of references & have seen his work. I would hope that you also know the difference between interior & exterior walls and painting them. The posts here are prices for interior painting, there is more to the exterior like needing ladders, scaffolding, & materials generally cost more.

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WisePainter

Other than misspelling "Chalking", you Sir are a General Contractor I would work for.
You have a mind that processes all of the variables that I may have missed in the original scope of work list.
It happens to the best of us...

Too bad there weren't more GC's like you around...


10/10 rating.




EDIT: LOL @ the improperly built deck pics!! You have a great website.

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My advice: Hire a real painter to do it.

Paul B

There are windows and doors everywhere. There are balcony's outside which account for five of the doors. It is modeled after a victorian house in Cape May called the Doll House.

I wish I had a picture to post.

edit: I forget to mention I am supplying my JLG man lift.

Gene450

You got that right

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THINKPAINTING

Remember when you estimate manhours, ya lucky to get 6 out of 8 per man day unless you are there cracking the wip or you use ilegals....

We just painted an interior custom home for a very large hvac contractor in Boston Ma, Providence RI area.....his personal home...

We had some good conversations about estimating from blueprints etc...
first question he asked me was , you dont fiqure 8 hr man days? My awnser was no......we also talked alot about time spent setting up, and moving staging etc.....

You can look at a home, and fiqure, how many openings, wood trim, body
etc but after you fiqure the painting time remember everything else that goes with it........

WisePainter

Good point.

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birdogron

Per square foot is only a way to check your actual bid. Don't bid per square foot. Look at the job, be there in your mind. Figure how long it will take per man hour and then check your price per square foot maybe. Per square foot is what supers go by and they are the guys who can hurt you. Bid and if you miss the job it doesn't mean you are high. The other guy might be low.