Should You Bid Floor Space Or Wall Space For Painting

Sometimes contractors will talk about square footage about floor space and other times it will be about wall space.

Should you bid floor space or wall space for painting.

One home has a lot more detail than the other home. Basically track houses since they are all basically have the same specs. You can measure the perimeter of a room to calculate the wall area but if you already know the floor area of the room from floor plans for example it may be quicker to calculate the wall area based on that number if your room is square or round. I agree that measuring the floor space only would make your estimate inaccurate.

In either case there are problems with this approach. With an open floor plan the same large space typically has windows with different exposures. 30 feet of chair rail. Two to three coats of a sealant may be necessary.

For example if the concrete wall has a three inch drain pipe running along its face build the new wall 3 5 inches from the concrete wall. To paint wallpaper or panel a wall you must know the total area of the wall so you can buy the appropriate amount of finish. Do you know how long it takes you to paint a chair rail. You ll lose those inches in living space but it s.

Unless of course you are painting the floors with porch floor paint then that makes sense. Given the information above the paint sells for 29 a gallon when purchased in a 5 gallon pale. If you re using a single paint color on all of the walls make sure the paint looks the same on each. You know your square footage of a room however.

Crawl space foundations are easily waterproofed by gluing a thick sheet of plastic to the ground and walls. Instead of apply paint why not use a plastic vapor barrier over the block wall in the crawl space. If you know your production rates you can bid by square footage. Interior basement walls should be scrubbed free of mildew or mold and then primed with a waterproofing paint that is suitable for the surface.

Imagine you have 2 homes that are both 2500 square feet. You could loose allot of money bidding like that. So you invest 145 to cover 500 square feet for 1 coat and 290 for 2 coats and 435 for 3 coats which is most likely the appropriate amount to apply. In both cases they might use about the same amount of materials.

Cutting in and rolling. I only give a bid for the floor footage after seeing the plans for the homes. Do you know how long it takes you to paint 200 square feet of wall space.