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Painting Biz Owners: Know how to get more efficient when using PaintScout in your production process

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Know how to get more efficient when using PaintScout in your production process
Uploaded: 2023-11-13T20:44:44+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this segment, the presenter explains how using work orders as a profitability tool can streamline painting projects. By breaking a project into…

13 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter explains how using work orders as a profitability tool can streamline painting projects. By breaking a project into specific task‑based hour allocations—e.g., 30 hours for baseboards, 42 hours for walls, and 12 hours for wall preparation—managers can assign crew members like Jim and Sue to focused tasks for set time periods. This task‑specific approach prevents crew members from jumping between unrelated jobs, allowing them to work more efficiently, become better craftsmen, and ultimately improve overall production output.

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work order is your ticket to profitability. For the crew at the end of the day, to break it down, a lot of teams, like, it's hard for them to see the project properly even with a work order by area. They need to see it by, hey, I've got— I have 30 hours for baseboards, I have 42 hours for walls. Hey, there's actually 12 hours of preparation on the walls. So hey Jim, I'm going to have you work on the preparation of the walls for the next day and a half. That's 12 hours. So I want you to go mud. Meanwhile, Sue, I'd like you to get going on the baseboards for the next couple days because we have that time. And so now those people are more efficient because they work on specific tasks, not on the whole project. As you know, they're not jumping walls, ceiling trim. They just have their role and they have their time. And so they can be better craftsmen as well as produce better.