Free tool for painting contractors

Commercial painting estimator

Price a commercial bid the way it is built: how much wall, ceiling, door and trim the job has, what one painter covers in an hour on each, your labor rate and paint cost, then overhead and profit. You get painter-hours, gallons, days on site for your crew, the bid price and what it comes to per square foot.

The job and your numbers

Enter how much of each surface the job has; leave a surface blank if the job has none. Production is what one painter covers in an hour, so a crew of three covers three times that. Production rates, coverage and paint prices start at numbers to replace with your own. Counts and rates are whole numbers; prices are dollars and cents.

Walls

Walls (sq ft) Coats Production (sq ft per painter-hour, per coat) Coverage (sq ft a gallon) Paint ($ a gallon)

Ceilings

Ceilings (sq ft) Coats Production (sq ft per painter-hour, per coat) Coverage (sq ft a gallon) Paint ($ a gallon)

Doors and frames

Doors and frames (each) Coats Production (doors per painter-hour, per coat) Coverage (doors a gallon) Paint ($ a gallon)

Trim and base

Trim and base (linear ft) Coats Production (linear ft per painter-hour, per coat) Coverage (linear ft a gallon) Paint ($ a gallon)

Crew, overhead and profit

Labor cost ($ an hour, per painter) Painters on the crew Hours in a crew day Supplies and equipment for the job ($) Overhead (% of job cost) Profit (% on cost and overhead)

The bid

Surface	Painter-hours	Gallons	Paint
Walls	—	—	—
Ceilings	—	—	—
Doors and frames	—	—	—
Trim and base	—	—	—

Labor, —: —
Paint, —: —
Supplies and equipment: —
Overhead: —
Profit: —
Bid price: —
Per sq ft of wall and ceiling: —
Days on site with your crew: —

Enter how much of a surface the job has to see the bid.

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How the bid is worked out

Painter-hours. For each surface, its quantity times coats, divided by what one painter covers in an hour on it, rounded up to the next tenth of an hour. The labor cost is the total painter-hours times your hourly labor cost per painter, to the nearest cent.
Paint. For each surface, its quantity times coats, divided by the coverage, rounded up to whole gallons and priced at that surface's cost per gallon.
Job cost. Labor, paint, and the supplies and equipment you entered.
Overhead and profit. Overhead is your percentage of the job cost. Profit is your percentage of the job cost plus overhead. Each is rounded to the nearest cent.
Bid price. Job cost plus overhead plus profit. Per square foot divides it by the wall and ceiling square footage entered, so doors and trim are carried inside that rate.
Days on site. Total painter-hours divided by the painters on the crew and the hours in their day, rounded up to the next tenth of a day.

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