Painting business owners can use PaintScout's preloaded production rates to price jobs accurately. Run an estimation workshop where crew members independently estimate how long a specific painting task takes, then combine their estimates with square footage to create a provisional rate and test it in the field.
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Someone listening that hasn't started this process, do you have any kind of guidance for how to actually implement that log of all these different production rates so that they can start pricing appropriately? We have some preloaded production rates in PaintScout that people can start to use, and those have been based off of, you know, amalgamated data from a lot of different sources. So that's another place you could time. Timing is very laborious. You got all the other things in your life going on. You really want to time your crews. And so what I've heard people say is that you can— I think it's really helpful is get your team together, bring them into a space, say, guys, you know, we're painting this room. Each of them to write down how long they think it would take. This is the square footage. Here's our room. We're painting the walls 2 coats. Everyone write it down. Now we're painting the baseboards. Everyone write it down. And I think for the most part, painters kind of know intuitively what it'll take. And the more data points you can get, the better. So the more people you get in that discussion, the more helpful it'll be. You take those points, put them all together, get your square footage, get your dimensions, and start to look at that data and say, okay, this is what my team is telling me. Let's go out and do an estimate and see if this works.
