Painting Business Owners: Learn what Production Rate Estimating is to Price your Painting Projects.

Could you explain what production rate estimating actually means, or time-based estimation, what that actually means? Yeah, absolutely. So going back to kind of the previous point that I was making about the standardization, what can we truly base this project off of for painting? At the end of the day, really most painting contractors are selling time. That's what this project mostly takes. And so what production rate estimate is, is figuring out the time on average things take for your team to do. You know, an example of that might be how many square feet of drywall can you paint 2 coats in an hour? And so, or you know, how many linear feet of baseboard can you paint 2 coats in an hour? And these types of things like you can measure over time. And so you can start out with a number and you can, you can time your team and see what it takes and maybe it's more or less and adjust. So that's what production rates are, is really breaking down your project into, to time at the end of the day, which you can sell and price and understand what, what that takes and, you know, add material in separately if you want. But for the most part, it's, it's just understanding the time.