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.
But that s what paint is for.
If you know your production rates you can bid by square footage.
A 10 10 8 room would be a different price from a 10 10 12.
However some painting contractors especially if giving an estimate rather than a firm bid will base it on square footage of the room or house obviously at a higher price than if it were for actual painting surface area because in a normal house the painting surface runs roughly a multiple of 1 to 2 times the real estate square footage for exterior commonly around 1 5x and usually in the 2 to 5 times footprint square footage for interior walls commonly around a multiple of 3 4.
Cutting in and rolling.
I agree that measuring the floor space only would make your estimate inaccurate.
Do you know how long it takes you to paint 200 square feet of wall space.
Still telling apart the different zones that make up an open space id often difficult without the usual wall barriers.
I only give a bid for the floor footage after seeing the plans for the homes.
30 feet of chair rail.
Take the new number and measure that distance above the 57 inch mark.
You could loose allot of money bidding like that.
Imagine you have 2 homes that are both 2500 square feet.
Do you know how long it takes you to paint a chair rail.
Basically track houses since they are all basically have the same specs.
As some wall will be higher than 8 feet.
Unless of course you are painting the floors with porch floor paint then that makes sense.
Anything larger will make your furniture look comically small and anything smaller will leave too much blank space.
With the mouly it would be 7 inches above the 57 inch mark meaning the artwork will actually hang 64 inches from the floor.
If you re hanging a painting drawing print or any other artwork on the wall over a piece of furniture such as a bed or sofa look for artworks that are between 65 percent and 85 percent of the furniture s total width.
Robertpaint if you bid per floor area you are one hurtin dude.
One home has a lot more detail than the other home.
In both cases they might use about the same amount of materials and paint.
Open floor plans bring a lot of benefits the most appreciated of all being the fact that they visually increase the spaciousness of an area and allow us to make the most of our homes.
In either case there are problems with this approach.