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It asks which service, which rooms, what shape the surfaces are in, and what you want painted in each one. What comes back is not a ballpark. It is a proposal carrying the price, the scope of work, the terms, the deposit and a line to sign.

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Before you start

Time to a priceUnder 5 minutes
Estimate visit firstNot required
Deposit to reserve10%
Charged todayNothing
Price holds for30 days
Workmanship warranty2 years
Step four, on a real four room interior. Yours arrives with your rooms and your number on it, a PDF to download and a reference code.
The proposal the tool produces: an interior repaint of four rooms, what is included, the price, a 10% deposit figure, and an Approve and reserve button.

What it asks

Four steps, and every question in them.

Nothing in here is a question a person cannot answer about their own house.

  1. 1

    Your Info

    Three things: which service, how to reach you, and the address of the property.

    The address is doing more work than it looks. It pulls the public property record and puts it on the screen in front of you, living area, year built, stories, bedrooms, bathrooms, so what follows is built on your house rather than on a guess about it.

  2. 2

    Scope of Work

    This is the step the number comes out of, and it goes room by room rather than house by house. Each room carries a size, with the dimensions written out so that large means something; a ceiling height; and a condition, because good and needs repairs are not the same job at the same price.

    Then the surfaces themselves: walls, ceiling, crown molding, baseboards, accent wall, window trim, doors, closet, counted where the count changes the work. Rooms that are much the same copy across, so a four bedroom house is not four rounds of identical questions.

    Photos are worth adding, and on an exterior they matter most. They do not change the number the tool works out; they are what we look at when we review the proposal. There is a note box beside them for color preferences or anything we should know.

  3. 3

    Summary

    Nothing is priced until every answer is back on one screen, next to your details and the property record. A wrong number is a click from being fixed here, which is a great deal easier than fixing it once it is a proposal.

  4. 4

    Your Price

    The proposal. The price, the list of what is included, the 10% deposit, the warranty term, a PDF to download and a reference code so you can come back to it. Below it, a signature pad and the terms. Nothing is charged at this stage, and the price holds for 30 days.

    If your proposal carries a credit for approving early, that credit runs on its own clock, which is the countdown in the picture at the top of this page. The price itself is good for thirty days either way.

Step two of the tool: a room called Living Room with buttons for room size, ceiling height and surface condition, eight surfaces to tick including walls, ceiling and baseboards, an optional photo upload and a note box.
Step two, one room. The list on the left is the rooms already added.

What it prices

  • Interior painting
  • Exterior painting, including log homes and wood siding
  • Cabinet painting and refinishing

What it doesn’t

Decks and horizontal surfaces. Decks vary too much for a set of questions to price honestly, so we would rather look at yours than give you a number we would have to change. Deck prices are published here, and booking an estimate takes about ninety seconds.

Commercial work is usually quotable this way too, but talk to us first so we can check the scope.

Why it asks first

Why it wants your name before it gives you a number.

What comes out of this is not a ballpark. It is a full price with the scope of work, the contract terms and the deposit, and a place to sign it. A document like that has to belong to a specific property and a specific person, the same as when we drive out and measure. A number attached to nobody is a guess, and we do not hand those out.

It also means we keep your answers. If the walls, the square footage or the condition turn out different from what you selected, we can put the two side by side and talk about the difference instead of arguing about it.

If you would rather not give us anything yet, that is fine. Our prices are published in full on the cost guides, no email required.

If you are not sure

When you’re not sure, guess high.

We cannot build every variable into a set of buttons. The tool cannot see the shape the siding is in, or the three coats of something unknown a previous owner left behind, and those change a price. Some of it comes down to which button you pick.

So when you are between two, take the one that costs more. Needs repairs rather than good, the larger room rather than the smaller.

Guessing high is the safer direction to be wrong in, and safer for you rather than for us. If the number comes out higher than the house needs, you can ask us to look at it before you approve anything. If it comes out too low, the correction turns up later, after you have already made your decision on it.

Then ask us to check it. Tell us which ones you were unsure about and we will come and look. We are happy to revise, and that goes both ways.

Photos do not change the number the tool works out. They are for us: a photo is what somebody here looks at when we go through your proposal, so it is the quickest way for us to confirm the price is right, or to catch that it is not.

On an exterior they matter most. An exterior is the hardest job to describe with a set of buttons and the easiest one to get wrong from the answers alone. If you are going to add photos anywhere, add them there, and it is worth walking round with your phone before you start rather than in the middle of it.

Priced without a visit

Almost nobody in this trade will put a price on a house they have not seen.

Two things are what let us do it.

2 years

It still comes with a written warranty.

Two years of workmanship, in writing, on a price nobody came out to look at. It is on the screen where the tool gives you your number, and it is in the terms you sign.

The proposal we write after standing in your house is a different document: five years of workmanship plus the three year worry free guarantee, which the online one does not carry. Same crew, same paint, same preparation. What differs is how much we knew when we priced it, and when we do come out and look, we may well upgrade it.

Our warranty page sets out the in-person terms in full, including the parts that do not suit us.

Revisions

Your number is not padded against the worst case.

There are two ways to price a house you have not walked. Load every line against the worst thing you might find, or price it honestly and keep the right to revise it if what turns up does not match the description. We do the second, and that is the only reason the number is worth anything to you.

The terms do not make that conditional on you having got something wrong. Their words: “The Contractor’s right to revise or decline does not depend on the Customer having made a mistake.”

So nobody is being accused of anything when a wall turns out worse than a set of buttons could describe, or when the tool simply gets something wrong.

If you approve it

What the signature actually starts.

  1. 1

    You approve the proposal

    You sign on the screen and place the 10% deposit. It comes off your total, and nothing is taken before the signature.

  2. 2

    We confirm the details

    A project manager goes through the scope and the scheduling with you. This is the point at which a real person reads what you sent.

  3. 3

    Your project is reserved

    We lock in your start date.

It takes about five minutes.

Nothing is charged, nothing is committed, and the price it gives you is good for thirty days. If you would rather we came and looked at it, that is the better answer for some houses and we would rather you had it.

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