Commercial Painting Contractors: Rates for Painting to Door Frames

21st

JAN

2021

Posted by The Painters’ QS in UK Painting Rates

We always get lots of questions from Quick Paint Rate users regarding rates painting to door frames, so I hope this helps:


If a door frame is to be painted BOTH sides (frame and archs) and has an overall girth n.e.300mm, you would use the £/Lm rate in Quick Paint Rate described as ‘Door Frame (to paint both sides of a door frame), n.e.300mm

 

If a door frame is to be painted ON ONE SIDE ONLY (frame and archs) and has an overall girth n.e.300mm, you would use the £/Lm rate in Quick Paint Rate described as ‘Door Frame (to paint ONE SIDE of a door frame), n.e.300mm.

 

Some QS’s measure the frame/stop and archs separately in which case you would use the separate £/Lm Door Frame (Standard Frame/Stop only, n.e.150mm) and £/Lm Door Frame (Standard Archs only), n.e.75mm.

 

Just to confuse things further: Under the UK rules of measurement if the overall girth of the painted door frame/stop/archs combined exceeds 300mm, the door frame should be measured in m2 and you must use the £/m2 rate in Quick Paint Rate described as Door Frame girth ex.300mm (m2 rate).  The mistake many painters make is that they use their gen surfaces £/m2 rate which is nowhere near enough.


Hope this helps


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