Quick Paint Rate
Painting rates calculator software. Calculate painting rates for ceilings/bulkheads, walls, woodwork/trim, metalwork etc. For use when pricing bills of quantities or painting projects based on your own measure.
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Estimating Services
Painting and Decorating Quantity Surveyors. We measure and cost all types and sizes of commercial painting project as well as carrying out on-site re-measures and valuations.
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Health & Safety Advisors
Providing health and safety advice for Painting Contractors. Help with CHAS, Constructionline, EXOR, Alcumus, SMAS etc. applications as well as Health and Safety Policies, Risk Assessment, Method Statements (RAMS) etc.
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Estimating Training Courses
Providing specialist tendering and estimating training courses for Painting and Decorating Contractors: Learn how to measure and price medium to very large size painting contracts.
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Digital Drawing Takeoff Software
Electronic drawing takeoff software. An Excel add-in giving you the power to takeoff your electronic drawings directly within any Microsoft Excel workbook including your own Excel spreadsheet templates.
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Latest Blog Posts
Rates for painting to door frames which have the intumescent strip already installed
30th MAR 2021
We had this question from a Quick Paint Rate user:
We give a £/Lm rate for painting door frames, but now they've fitted intumescent fire strips into the frame lining that we have to cut in 3 times, would you have rate in mind?
Painting Estimator Reply:
You’re right: It takes a lot longer to cut in to the intumescent strip installed into the frame lining.
The materials part of the cost will be the same:
Painting Contractors-Pricing New Build Commercial Painting Projects: The Essentials
29th MAR 2021
The problem when pricing new build, commercial painting projects, is that more often than not the buildings are not yet constructed.
The Building Contractor will email you the tender documents (or link to the documents) and will expect you to be able to price the project from this information.
In the UK, the usual way to do this is to measure the works from the drawings and to your measure, apply what are known as 'all-in' £/m2 or £/Lm rates.
Tendering and Estimating Advice For Painting Contractors
22nd MAR 2021
For painting contractors, particularly those who are looking to move more into larger, commercial painting works, it can be difficult to know where to start when pricing and there's nowhere you can go to get estimating advice from professional painting estimators........................ UNTIL NOW!
We at paintingestimators.co.uk are current, commercial painting estimators, measuring and costing painting projects of all types and sizes for painting contractors all over the UK.
