One of the most practical approaches to breathe new life into your room or even into your old house is by painting it in your favorite color. Painting your home can provide a variety of benefits. However, even before you start choosing the paint color, it is important to establish a budget to give you an idea of the total cost to paint a house. Learning how to obtain a home painting estimate is crucial to the success of your house painting activities.
Understanding the Cost of Painting a House
According to Home Advisor, the usual cost to paint a house can range as low as $4,500 to around $6,500. Home Advisor also says that generally, homeowners would be spending about $988 to $2,722 for every paint job. What you need to understand is that while these figures can give you an idea of how much budget it’s not the final price. There are a lot of factors that can play into the final home painting estimate.
How to Estimate Painting Jobs
With the knowledge above, you can actually make a guess-timate for your interior or exterior. Or you can use a paint cost estimator online, however, that isn’t guaranteed to be correct. An online program won’t know the influx of paint, material, or labor cost. Typically you will be asked a set of questions that will help to make a house painting estimate.Some online home painting quotes may also ask you about the number of rooms that you want to paint as well as total floor area of the space. These are just the basic stuff, of course.
How Do Painters Quote Jobs
Unfortunately, relying on online services does have its drawbacks. There can be a lot of factors involved in the paint job estimation process that cannot be assessed efficiently. Your best recourse will still be to get the services of professional painters who can give you an honest estimate of your painting job. So how do painters quote jobs?
First they will make an estimate of the cost of paint which typically depends on the brand as well as the quality of the paint. This usually ranges from $15 to $80+ depending on the amount of gallons you’ll need for your home.
Then, they will have to estimate the number of gallons that will be needed to complete the project. Now you do have to understand that everything depends on the status of your existing paint whether it will require some form of stripping or not. They will look at the body and the trim of the space that is going to be painted. If anything requires repairs or patches that will all be included in the estimate. How much paint do I need? A typical house at about 1,500 square feet will need something like 8 gallons for the exterior surfaces and 2 gallons for the trim. If you also need to paint the interior, then you have to double the estimate to 16 and 4.
Professional painters will then have to factor-in the cost of the materials to be used in the painting job. These can include rolls of masking plastic and paper, rolls of tape, paint primer, and tubes of caulk. The cost of these materials depend on the contractor. A good contractor will already have these cost factored in and not need to have “extra” cost added. They should have the materials needed to complete your job. The only thing that will be either the client or contractor is the cost of paint.
Conclusion
There’s a lot of things that need to be considered when it comes to coming up with an honest interior and/or exterior painting estimate. The point is that you’re better off leaving the ‘how to estimate painting jobs’ to the experts. The other good thing is that should you decide to get their services in painting your home, you will save yourself the headache of going at it alone.
If you’re ready to find out how much it would cost you to paint your home, feel free to contact us to get a free estimate for your home paint job. An in person inspection and discussion with the owner is much more accurate than an online paint cost estimator.