Example quote: repainting three rooms

Three rooms, and every line on the measurement that actually drives it.

J. Whitfield (example) · Three rooms, 1,080 sq ft of wall, 380 sq ft of ceiling

Mask and protect 1,080 sq ft · Floors, fittings and the furniture left in the middle	$453.60
Patch, fill and caulk 210 lin ft · 210 lin ft of joints, frames and nail holes	$462.00
Primer coat 1,080 sq ft · Over the bare and patched areas	$918.00
Wall finish, two coats 1,080 sq ft · Perimeter x ceiling height, three rooms	$2,106.00
Ceiling, flat finish 380 sq ft · The floor area, once	$551.00
Trim and skirting, enamel 210 lin ft · The same run as the caulking	$798.00
Door, both faces and edges 5 each · Five doors, both faces and the edges	$475.00
Haul away and disposal Once · Masking, tins and the old drop cloths	$85.00
Subtotal	$5,848.60
Sales tax 6.5%, on the taxable lines ($5,310.00)	$345.15
Total	$6,193.75

An example, not a price list. The customer is invented. Every rate above is a row from the price book a new interior repaint account is seeded with, and the first thing you would do in the app is replace them with yours -- which is why the total is a shape to compare against, not a quote for your job.

Walls are not floors

The quantity that matters in a repaint is the wall, and a wall is a perimeter times a height. Three rooms coming to 1,080 square feet of wall sit on about 380 square feet of floor: quote the floor by mistake and the job is a third of its real size. Drawlite takes the walls off the same outline you drew for the floor, which is why the two numbers cannot disagree.

Two coats is the price, one coat is the can

The finish line here is a two-coat rate. The gallons behind it are worked out at half the coverage printed on the tin, for the same reason -- there is a calculator for the gallons.

Doors are counted, trim is run

Trim is priced by the foot because that is how it is painted, and doors are priced each because a door is a door whatever the room. Mixing them into a square-foot rate is how a repaint quote ends up covering half of its own labour.