Should You Bid Floor Space Or Wall Space For Painting

Do you know how long it takes you to paint a chair rail.

Should you bid floor space or wall space for painting.

I only give a bid for the floor footage after seeing the plans for the homes. Instead of apply paint why not use a plastic vapor barrier over the block wall in the crawl space. As one would require more prep more labor and more paint. Imagine you have 2 homes that are both 2500 square feet.

In either case there are problems with this approach. Do you know how long it takes you to paint 200 square feet of wall space. You know your square footage of a room however. 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.

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. You could loose allot of money bidding like that. Two to three coats of a sealant may be necessary.

One home has a lot more detail than the other home. Given the information above the paint sells for 29 a gallon when purchased in a 5 gallon pale. Basically track houses since they are all basically have the same specs. Cutting in and rolling.

Unless of course you are painting the floors with porch floor paint then that makes sense. As some wall will be higher than 8 feet. Crawl space foundations are easily waterproofed by gluing a thick sheet of plastic to the ground and walls. Interior basement walls should be scrubbed free of mildew or mold and then primed with a waterproofing paint that is suitable for the surface.

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. I agree that measuring the floor space only would make your estimate inaccurate. 30 feet of chair rail. You ll lose those inches in living space but it s.

A 10 10 8 room would be a different price from a 10 10 12. With an open floor plan the same large space typically has windows with different exposures. Sometimes contractors will talk about square footage about floor space and other times it will be about wall space.