Free tool for painting contractors

House painting cost calculator

Price the outside walls of a whole house from its footprint, stories and wall height, your paint cost, prep time, how fast your crew works and the markup you need. Every number below is a starting assumption: replace it with yours and the price updates as you type.

The house and your numbers

Doors count as 20 sq ft and windows as 15 sq ft of wall you will not paint. Gable ends, trim and fascia are not measured: cover them with prep hours or markup.

House

Length (ft) Width (ft) Stories Wall height per story (ft) Doors Windows Coats

Paint and supplies

Coverage (sq ft per gallon) Paint ($ per gallon) Supplies ($ per job)

Labor and markup

Prep: washing, scraping, masking (hours) Production (sq ft per hour, per coat) Labor ($ per hour) Markup on cost (%)

Price to quote

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— per sq ft of exterior wall

Exterior wall to paint: — sq ft
Paint to buy: — gal (— needed)
Paint cost: —
Supplies: —
Labor: — h, —
Your cost: —
Markup: —

Paint is rounded up to whole gallons. The math runs in your browser. Only opening the draft sends the sentence below to FyneSite.

Put the price where homeowners look

Open a free draft of your painting website.

FyneSite builds a draft site from one sentence about your business. Add your business name and town and the sentence below is written from them and the house you just priced. Change anything you like, then open the draft. No account needed to look.

Rennick Painting Co., a demo painting company website built on FyneSite — Rennick Painting Co. is a demo painting site built on FyneSite, not a real company. Yours starts from your own name, town and price.

How the estimate is worked out

Exterior wall. The footprint's perimeter, twice length plus width, times the wall height per story times the number of stories, less 20 sq ft per door and 15 sq ft per window.
Paint. Wall area times coats, divided by the coverage on the can, rounded up to whole gallons and priced at your cost per gallon.
Labor. Your prep hours, plus wall area times coats divided by your crew's production rate, times your hourly labor cost.
Price. Paint, supplies and labor are your cost; your markup on cost is added on top. The per-square-foot figure is that price divided by the exterior wall area.

Pricing one interior room instead? Use the painting estimate calculator · Websites for painting companies