Quoting software for painting contractors

Draw the room once. The walls come off the perimeter and the height, the ceiling off the floor, the trim off the line around it.

Measured in: Wall area for the finish, ceiling area, linear feet of trim, and doors counted.

The quantity is the wall, and the wall is not the floor

This is the only trade in the book whose real measurement stands up rather than lying down. 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 size. Drawlite takes the walls off the same outline as the ceiling, using the height on the room, so the two numbers cannot disagree.

Two coats is the price, one coat is the can

Every finish row in the seeded book carries the coverage for the system it is sold as, not the figure printed on the tin. That is why the gallons the takeoff asks you to buy are roughly twice the figure on the label, and why the job does not run out of paint on the second day.

Doors are counted, trim is run, masking is area

Three different units on one repaint, because that is how the work is actually done. A square-foot rate that swallows the trim and the doors is a quote that covers about half of its own labor, and it is the most common shape of an underpriced repaint.

The price book this trade starts with

Every row below is seeded into a new painting account on the day it is created, with these rates. They are realistic US mid-market numbers for 2026 and they are the first thing you would change -- but nobody starts from a blank page, and nothing on this site is a figure invented for a landing page.

Preparation

Pressure wash Low-pressure wash and rinse, exterior surfaces	$0.38 per sq ft
Scrape, sand and spot prime Remove failed coating, feather edges, spot prime bare	$1.15 per sq ft
Patch, fill and caulk Fill nail holes and cracks, caulk joints and frames	$2.20 per lin ft

Labor

Mask and protect Drop cloths, film and tape; furniture covered in place	$0.42 per sq ft
Haul away and disposal Old coating waste, masking and empty tins	$85.00 flat fee
Trip charge Mobilization, applied once per visit	$85.00 flat fee

Coating

Primer coat Stain-blocking primer over bare and patched areas	$0.85 per sq ft
Wall finish, two coats Two coats of interior latex, standard sheen	$1.95 per sq ft
Ceiling, flat finish One coat flat white, cut and rolled	$1.45 per sq ft
Exterior siding, two coats Two coats of exterior acrylic, brush and spray	$2.35 per sq ft

Detail

Trim and baseboard, enamel Sand, caulk and two coats of enamel to trim	$3.80 per lin ft
Door, both faces and edges Off the hinges where practical, two coats	$95.00 each

And the systems built out of it

A system is what the shop sells; the rows above are what it is made of. Put one on a shape and every line below lands on the quote at once, each on its own measurement.

Interior repaint
Ceiling, walls and trim, off one outline of the room
Mask and protect · Ceiling, flat finish · Scrape, sand and spot prime (on the walls) · Wall finish, two coats (on the walls) · Trim and baseboard, enamel (around the edge) · Trip charge

Exterior repaint
Wash, prep, prime and two coats to the elevations drawn
Pressure wash · Scrape, sand and spot prime · Primer coat · Exterior siding, two coats · Trip charge · Trim and baseboard, enamel (around the edge)

Ceilings only
The one every landlord asks for between tenants
Mask and protect · Ceiling, flat finish · Trip charge