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How To Bid Paint Jobs: The Secret to Painting Estimates in 2020. My Secrets Revealed!

What happens here

Based on the detailed information gathered (square footage, property age, visual assessment from Google Earth), the painting estimate is meticulously calculated. The speaker explains their pricing model, which starts with a base rate per square foot (e.g., $1.65/sq ft) and is adjusted according to various factors. These factors include the complexity of the job, such as multi-story homes requiring more equipment and labor, and the specific prep work dictated by the property's age and condition. For instance, a newer, well-maintained home might incur a lower per-square-foot cost due to minimal prep, while an older home with significant wear would increase it. This final calculation is then inputted into QuickBooks, their accounting software, which automates the generation of a professional one-page estimate summary and a comprehensive 20-page bid packet. These documents detail the scope of work, materials, and pricing, formatted for digital delivery.

Goal: Develop and digitally prepare a detailed and accurate painting proposal.

Tools and materials

  • Computer Apple iMac — Performing calculations and running QuickBooks, QuickBooks Intuit

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uh a lot of the things when i'm painting i'm trying to you know create systems and processes that make things fast and efficient and the bid process is the exact same way that i came up with um in the the score the explore square feet price you'll fluctuate based on supply and demand how busy i am right now it's a dollar sixty five a square foot is my base price and so i'm going to take the square feet if it's 2500 square feet i'm going to multiply it by a dollar 65 and there is my base price that i'm going to add in my estimate um after i've also looked and studied the information my base price if the house is three stories uh there's gonna be significantly more work so that dollar 65 could could go up if it's um you know single story uh and you know it's only five years old or three years old and it's brand new and they want a color change it could go down there's some certain things that's going to make it fluctuate go up and down but the key thing is is you don't have to drive out and look at the house you can do all the phone call comes in you can look at it on google earth you can get information statistic data off of zillow and you can have an estimate back to the customer you know within 30 minutes it's absolutely incredible and it's emailed to them using a pdf format and but you just have to have um you know the knowledge the painting knowledge and look at the house closely i know there's been times that we've looked at the house it's single story in the front we can't see the back it's two-story in the back but you know when it comes to all the houses we're doing we're doing four or five houses a week if there was one that was more difficult there's going to be somewhere in a 30-day period one that's more easy and it ultimately ends up working itself out and equaling itself out in the end you know over the months time so you know sometimes you know the system you you're going to be surprised but you can zoom in look at the house and you know if it's 20 years old you can see a lot of prep work or maybe the house is all stuck out and you can um you need to paint the stucco but you can look at the front door as it stained front door and if you didn't get any some of that information on the phone you can contact the customer back before writing the estimate saying you know i noticed you have a wood front door do you want the front door stained i notice you have a shed you know in on the side of the house do you want that shed included in the bid…

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