A complete guide to estimating painting costs for just about any type of residential, commercial, or industrial painting, whether by brush, spray, or roller.

A complete guide to estimating painting costs for just about any type of residential, commercial, or industrial painting, whether by brush, spray, or roller. Shows typical costs and bid prices for fast, medium, and slow work, including material costs per gallon; square feet covered per gallon; square feet covered per manhour; labor, material, overhead, and taxes per 100 square feet; and how much to add for profit. Includes a CD-ROM with an electronic version of the book with National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows estimating program, plus an interactive multimedia video that shows how to use the disk to compile construction cost estimates.

This is the most complete, authoritative and reliable unit cost guide ever made available to paint estimators. No matter what types of work you estimate, no matter what your costs are, this book will help you produce consistently reliable painting estimates in dollars and cents.

Current building costs for residential, commercial, and industrial construction. Estimated prices for every common building material, the labor cost to install the material and a total installed cost. For those jobs where you can't rely on your past experience to estimate, rely on the prices in this national standard of construction costs to get you safely in the ballpark.

A complete guide to estimating painting costs for just about any type of residential, commercial, or industrial painting, whether by brush, spray, mitt or roller. Shows typical costs and bid prices for fist, medium, and slow work, including material costs per gallon; square feet covered per gallon; square feet covered per manhour. Includes an electronic version of the book with a stand-alone estimating program (National Estimator for Windows "TM" ) FREE on a 3 1/2" high-density (1.44 Mb) disk*. *What Is the National Estimator Program? The National Estimator program combines a large database with a complete easy-to-use estimating program. Cut and paste from the database to your estimate. Change labor hours and rates and customize overhead and profit. Labor and material columns are totaled automatically. System requirements: Microsoft Windows "TM" 3.1 or higher and 4 Mb of system memory.