| | | 2010 National Painting Cost Estimator CDw/BOOK |  | The National Painting Cost Estimator for 2010 Includes a CD-ROM Estimating Software which will help too determine painting cost by factoring labor and material costs along with labor hours. Every painting job is unique. No single material cost, no labor estimate, no pricing system fits all types of work. And just as every job varies, so do painting companies. No two painting contractors have the same productivity rates, the same labor burden, the same overhead expense and the same profit requirements.
Includes Cost Tables For:
* General Painting Cost
* Wallcovering Cost
* Preparation Cost
* Industrial, Institutional and Commercial Painting Cost
* Revised Annually
•Job Cost Wizard – turns estimates into invoices and exports both in QuickBooks
•Free Online Technical Support – for the National Estimator Software
•Free Monthly National Estimator Updates – Updates to the 2010 costbooks and zip code modification factors are updated monthly. Monthly price updates on the Web are free and automatic all during 2010. You'll be prompted when it's time to collect the next update. A connection to the Web is required.
Also, see The Paint Contractor's Manual as well as, The Painter's Handbook to help you manage and operate a profitable painting company.
The best paint estimates are always custom-made for a particular job. They're based on the contractor's actual productivity rate, material cost, labor cost, and overhead percentage and profit expectations. No estimating book, no computerized estimating system, no estimating service can possibly account for all the variables that make every job and every painting company different. Only a skilled estimator using professional judgment and a proven estimating system can produce consistently reliable estimates on a wide variety of painting jobs.
Includes Cost Tables For:
* General Painting Cost
* Wallcovering Cost
* Preparation Cost
* Industrial, Institutional and Commercial Painting Cost
|  | | | You May Also Like | | | Also In This Section | | | More About This Book | No two painting contractors have the same productivity rates, the same labor burden, the same overhead expense and the same profit requirements.
The best paint estimates are always custom-made for a particular job. They're based on the contractor's actual productivity rate, material cost, labor cost, and overhead percentage and profit expectations.
Only a skilled estimator using professional judgment and a proven estimating system can produce consistently reliable estimates on a wide variety of painting jobs.
The estimating tables in this book show typical costs and bid prices for every painting operation you're likely to encounter, whether paint is applied by brush, roller, mitt or spray. Selecting the right cost table and the correct application method is easy. Tables are divided into four parts:
Part I: General Painting Costs
Part II: Preparation Costs
Part III: Industrial, Institutional and Heavy Commercial Painting Costs
Part IV: Wallcovering Costs
Each section is arranged alphabetically by operation. If you have trouble finding the tables you need, use the Table of Contents at the front of the book or the Index at the back of the book.
Once you've found the right table and the appropriate application method, you have to select the correct application rate. For each of the application methods (brush, roll, mitt or spray), the tables show three application rates: "Slow," "Medium," or "Fast." That's a very important decision when using this book, because each application rate assumes different manhour productivity, material coverage, material cost per gallon, hourly labor cost, labor burden, overhead and profit. Your decision on the application rate to use (or which combination of rates to use) has to be based on your evaluation of the job, your painters and your company. That's where good common sense is needed.
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If you have to bid repaint work, be sure to include all the miscellaneous costs. The acronym I use to identify these miscellaneous costs is SURRPTUCU: Setup (SU), Remove and Replace (RR), Protection (P), Touchup (TU) and Cleanup (CU). Add these costs to your repaint estimate if they require anything beyond minimum attention.
1. Setup includes unloading the vehicle, spreading the tarp and setting up the tools – everything that has to be done before prep or painting can begin.
2. Remove and replace everything that will interfere with painting, including door and cabinet hardware, the contents of cabinets, light fixtures, bathroom accessories, switch covers and outlet plates, among others.
3. Protection for furniture and adjacent surfaces such as floors, cabinets, plumbing or electrical fixtures, windows, and doors. Protection methods include masking, applying visqueen, laying drop cloths and applying a protective coating on windows.
4. Touchup time varies with the speed and quality of the painting job and how fussy the owner is. The more careful your painters are, the less touchup time needed. You can estimate touchup time accurately only if you know how well your crews perform. The Touchup table in this book is based on a percentage of total job cost.
5. Cleanup time is usually about the same as setup time, about 20 to 30 minutes each day for repaint jobs. Cleanup time begins when work stops for the day and ends when the crew is back in the truck and ready to go home. It includes cleaning tools, dismantling the paint shop and loading the vehicle.
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