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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Interior House Painting Estimates

Making Interior House Painting Estimates Like a Pro

How do the pros make interior house painting estimates? Have you ever wondered if they are giving you fair estimates or are they a bit overpriced? Is your contractor only breaking even and had added the correct profit or is being too pricey? If you are not sure of your contractor’s estimate, then you ought to know a thing or time about paint estimating.

Here’s a simple way to get a sound interior house painting estimates:

1. Begin by measuring the height of your ceiling. Then measure the width of the walls of the room you will want to be painted. If you will use the same color for all the room, multiply the total wall dimensions by the ceiling height. You will get the wall area.

2. The next step in making interior house painting estimates is to get the ceiling area of the room and add it to the wall area. That would give you the room area. Then, choose a color and the paint brand you are going to use. Ask how many square feet would a gallon of that paint brand can cover.

3. With the total area of the room and the number of square feet that a gallon of the paint can cover, you can now determine the number of paint gallons which will be consumed. Be sure to get the price of the paint brand per gallon to get your interior house painting estimates on paint costs. This information can be obtained from your local paint dealer.

4. If you are using more than one color you must compute separately using the above steps.

5. You also need to find out other supplies and tools which will be used in the paint job such as brushes, painter’s tape, primers and finishes. Rollers and thinners are some of the ones needed besides the paint itself. Visit your local dealer and make a list of the things which will be used and then add the price tag of all these items. Add this cost to the computed paint cost earlier.

6. After totaling the paint cost and the supplies and materials cost, simply multiply this figure by 3. For example, if you have computed for $300, your contractor should charge you around $900. This includes travel/gas allowance, professional fee and rental for any heavy equipment. This is now your correct interior house painting estimates.