Generally, for any small commercial painter or domestic painter looking to expand more into commercial painting, the truth is, the main barrier to you expanding your business is the fact that that Principal Contractors expect you to price tenders they send over (even if they are only pricing the project themselves) and for you to be able to price from drawings or bills of quantities.

And here lies the problem.

Most small commercial painters/domestic painters are only abl

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Quick Paint rate: Question & Answer

15th

MAY

2020

Posted by The Painters’ QS in UK Painting Rates

Question 1: 
I pay my painters for 8hr working day, so I changed the production hours to 8hrs.  Is that OK?

Answer:
NO!  If you are working a standard 8hr day, with no restrictions, you will always loose 1hr. production due to mobile phones, chatting, smoking and toilet breaks.
Leave the production hours fi

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