1,800 square feet

A professional painter should be able to paint the walls with a two-coat painting system in a regular office (14′ wide x 14′ length x 9′ high = 504 square feet) in about 3.5 hours of time. An average painter should be able to cover about 150 square feet an hour.

Most professional painters charge $2 to $6 per square foot of paintable area. Less commonly, they’ll charge anywhere from $20 to $50 an hour. In some areas with high costs of living, you might even pay upwards of $100 an hour.

Painters calculate the square footage by multiplying the length of each room in your home by their corresponding width to determine the total amount of square footage in a particular space.

Painting a 500 square foot room as a whole, including walls, ceilings, trim, and baseboards, costs between $1,500 and $2,000.

Painting a home interior or room costs $2 to $6 per square foot with most jobs averaging $3.50 per square foot. Total painting project costs range between $954 and $2,892 with a national average of $1,895. For an entire 2,300 square foot home, expect to pay between $4,000 and $11,000.

And is it worth the cost? On average, the raw labor cost can range between $400 and $500 to hire a painter to paint a 10×12 room, and this does not include trim, ceilings, or the cost of the paint itself. To get the most accurate price estimate, your paint contractor will need to know the square footage of the room.

How Much Does a Painter Make? Painters made a median salary of $40,280 in 2019. The best-paid 25 percent made $53,290 that year, while the lowest-paid 25 percent made $33,120.

Cost To Repaint A Whole House Interior

about four days

Professional painters charge around $4,000 for labor and materials to paint the exterior of a 2,500-square-foot, two-story home and roughly $5,500 for the interior. Painters’ rates may range from $20 to $60 an hour, but around $40 is typical in urban areas.

Paint Calculator Tip 1: One gallon can of paint will cover up to 400 square feet, which is enough to cover a small room, like a bathroom. Paint Calculator Tip 2: Two gallon cans of paint cover up to 800 square feet, which is enough to cover an average size room.

400 Square Feet This is about the size of a two-car garage. In New York, 400 square feet is the minimum size for a new apartment (although apartments built before the law took effect, in 1987, are often much smaller).

Does the second coat use less paint? Second coat does not use as much paint as first because not as much is needed. 2) Generally a second coat will take less material for the same coverage. It’s sealed fairly well, you have the base color down, etc.

As a general rule, 1 litre of paint will cover between 6 and 6.5 metres squared of wall. So, to calculate how many litres of paint you will need, divide the total paintable surface area by 6.5.

So 5 litres of Retail paint will cover 65sqm- one coat, and 5 litres of Trade paint will cover 85sqm- one coat.

For an emulsion paint (used on interior walls and ceilings), 1 litre of paint will cover approximately 12 square metres per coat.