06/30/2026
I've got two pricing methods now and they're both super scalable. Anyone can do it.
I've got a budget "price per room" option now, with additional options priced at labor plus material for the cheap jobs. I can quote those sight unseen, and I'll be very upfront about exactly what the budget option includes, because every job is getting the same treatment. It's fast, it's cheap, and I guarantee nothing on quality except improvement. I'll leave it better than I found it. My early customers all got that pricing, and then I put the premium effort in so I could take pretty pictures and get referrals. I had the time.
The premium option, always going to be my first offer, is a multiple of the material cost, usually 3.5. I recently quoted some new construction at 2.5, cause there's no floor to cover or trim to cut around. This is after I've been to the site in person and picked the best materials for the job. As expensive as necessary. No more, no less. This is where I'm applying everything I've learned over the years to get you the best job I can do at an optimal price. How long it's going to take can't be guaranteed, but the quality is going to be hard to beat, and you're paying less than you would with somebody who picks the most expensive options every time to get those results.
I make about the same an hour either way. I came to these conclusions after pricing things out every other way I could think of and realizing the math checks out the same no matter how I run it. I'm throwing square footage out the window for anything but material quantity. It does not take longer to paint a 10 foot tall wall than it does to paint an 8 foot tall wall. It just takes more paint and a bigger ladder. Size of the room doesn't change the labor costs anywhere near as quickly as adding more of them does.
