Estimating for Painting & Decorating

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(Commercial & Domestic)

This is a two-day course aimed at decorators who want to learn how to price their work correctly. The course assumes no previous knowledge of pricing and will start basic and build up your knowledge. The course will start by looking at some of the common pitfalls that decorators fall into when pricing their work.

This is a 2 Day Course

Course Cost - £700.00 plus vat

Arrive at 9:00am for a 9:30am start and we aim to finish around 5:00pm

2021 Dates:
Exeter: Sat 18th/ Sun 19th September

Edenbridge: Sat 6th/ Sun 7th November

Preston: Thur 2nd/ Fri 3rd December

The Estimating for Painting & Decorating

This is a stand-alone course aimed at decorators who want to learn how to price their work whether you have prior knowledge or not.
Then the course will look at common pricing models that are widely used in the industry including a basic time and materials approach to a more sophisticated system that allows you to price off plans. The course will teach you how to calculate materials needed including paint and wallpaper.
The course will help you to look at your own business and work out what your costs are, this is essential if you are going to price for work and make sure that you will make money.
Although the course is classroom-based the majority of the course will be pricing activities and exercises. This will give you hands-on experience in pricing real word jobs.

You will cover all the main concepts such as:

Basic maths, this includes working out areas of ceiling and walls. It will also look at how to calculate linear measurements such as skirting and architraves.
Calculating your costs, this will include your overheads and labour costs.
Calculating the quantities of materials needed for the contract. We will calculate both paint and wallpaper quantities.
Pricing a simple job.
Exploring budget revisions and how to handle them.
Looking at pricing per square metre and what the current market rates are.
Looking at “book” rates and how to use these in your business, also the advantages and disadvantages of book rates.
Calculating a price from plans

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