Painting Contractors: Let's talk about production rates

So production rates are basically, I think when you're doing your estimating, you are actually measuring each surface that needs to be painted and calculating the budgeted hours. You know, if I have a bunch of siding, I measure it out square footage of siding, the soffit, the fascia board, the deck, you know, railings, all those different surfaces are going to take different amounts of time. So there's something called production rates where you say, okay, how long is it going to take my crew or the average painter to paint this set of 10 feet of railing or, you know, 100 square feet of this type of siding? So these production rates, you can develop them internally. To say, okay, how long, how much time does it take my crew to paint these different types of surfaces so that I can come up with a budgeted hours? So you do all those measurements when you're doing the estimate and you come up with, okay, it's gonna take my team 200 hours to paint this project. From there, you would take that 200 hours and multiply it by your loaded burden labor hourly rate. If you've, if you're not sure about production rates, you don't have production rates for your team, if you go to the Painter Contractor Association's website, they do have an estimating guide that gives you production rates for the average Skilled Painter. You have to buy the guide, but it gives you all the things, all, and you can load that up into your Paint Scout or whatever you're using for estimating.