Tutorial // Pricing Cabinet Painting and Refinishing Services
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Louis Jasso of Elite Fine Finish shows you how to price your cabinet refinishing services.
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Louis,
I've been a painter for 25 years and getting more and more requests for painting kitchen cabinets. It's something I've always done but more from a painters method rather then a professional refinisher method. Your channel has helped me up my game a lot and your years of experience are priceless. Thanks for all the help and sharing your techniques. Its completely changed my business around. Thanks !!
Thank you for the kind words!!
Thanks for posting lately. I enjoy all your videos
Thanks for watching! I now have a dedicated employee to help get content out..
Thank you for this information.
It does sound good.
My pricing per door opening was always lacking.
Another great video with tips! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
I’ve been waiting for this video . Usually I price per door and drawer
Hope it help you out!
It's in a good neighborhood so let's charge'em up!
Awesome content!!
Thank you!
I have mentioned in a previous vid I have only done a few cabinet jobs since my start in sept 2020. Just 3:12 into the vid. I do not price based on doors or drawers/linear ft nor sq/ft. I communicate with the customer to find out what it is they want exactly. I'll get them to send me images from pinterest or what ever to figure out what the look they are going for. Now obviously the number of doors and drawers factor into pricing but I typically go on what products i am using etc. But some clients are ok with a foam roller semi gloss finish. Others want a weather or aged multi colored look. Time is money not linear pr sq ft and definitely not number of drawers and doors.
I would think the price per increment can vary. I base my pricing off of time, and detail/product/finish time. On average my price meets the same whether I'm doing it linear, sq ft, per piece. So if you were to measure or count, base your per foot price off of the amount of tedious detail it will take. The point most people get to is that if your operating a refinishing service you need to become more standard and more quick with your response of pricing. Otherwise you are estimating, not pricing. But im a believer in whatever rout you take, take it, if you are profiting.
Hi Louis, appreciate the video on pricing. When you measure the linear sqft is that one linear measure that includes both the upper and lower cabinets or do you do _two_ separate linear measurements, one for the lower and one for the upper?
Hi Luis! I’ve been enjoying your content! Could you do a video on the tools a DIYer would use to use these types of products? We’re both pretty experienced painters and we redo furniture as a side business. But you’ve like got me hooked on learning how to use these finishes for our own home. We don’t have a turbine powered sprayer, but we have an air compressor and a prayer! Thanks!!
I will definitely try to get something together for you!
Question regarding the island - you only included the length and width once but typically I'm painting all four sides so in that case would you just keep walking around it? When doing by square foot, are there any extras you charge for like the proverbial wine rack or do you just figure it's all in there?
The problem with either linear ft. Or piecing, to me, for a standard price is condition and type of cabinets. Grease, peeling, grain filling? What type of finish are we going over? Lacquer, conversion varnish, oil, water? I put hands and eyes on every job. Also standing in the kitchen in person answers all the subtleties. Lights under the boxes? Type of hinges? Does the customer have touch up paint for when we caulk cab to walls/ceilings if we need it? I tell my contractors piecing is only a baseline number. So many variables. Thanks for your insight
Couldn’t have said it better myself
I am new and learning how to price have been doing it by pieces but am really interested in doing it by linear foot just makes more sense and easier!! So wondering if you do it this way do you account in your price for travel and material expense? We work in high rise beach condos and sometimes its awful trying to get in the elevators esp during summer and spring with all the people. We are mobile as we have no shop yet so we have to take everything with us to install . Its a major job just in itself so should we charge separate for this type of thing?
Nice house! I live in a continual work in process
Hey Louis how are you? How did you go by getting linear feet for the upper cabinets?
First video i have seen with no dislikes!
I have a standard price 275.00 an opening I don’t care if you have big or little. Still have to take off sand prime paint move them around cover ect etc I started at 150 and was losing went to 175 then 225. I changed product to renner way more expensive and bumped price again.
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I like that you get your linear, wall to wall. Some would say....you are charging on your 9' high cabinets as if the uppers were continus without spaces in-between the uppers. But your uppers have side panels...so really your meathod includes them as well. Very good! If you had finished ends on your 9' cabinets I would add 2 additional feet for each end! I love it.
If you present your client with a itemized breakdown of so many linear feet @ $100.00 / foot.....
How do you explain the breaks in the upper cabinets....?? And you were measuring wall to wall....on the base cabinets he could say.....you are charging 4 extra linear feet that you are not finishing....
What is the best way to present your bid??
Thanks Jim
also what about big flat sections like perhaps the bar seating side. its much easier work with no doors
@@nicolasmontagnoli7964 just charge the linear foot price. Then adfitional if it has
Hit send button by accident....charge extra if it has a wine rack or glass doors because now you are finishing the inside of the cabinet as well...!
Just watched the video again very closely. Thoes spaces between the upper cabinets appear to have windows with louvered shutters that rotate....so between the upper cabinet returns(sides) and the louvered windows....thoes are to be added in or even charged extra for the additional work!!
just jim
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That’s why I like charging per door and drawer . Each side panel for me I count as another door and same for any flat areas such as the back of the island if it has 4 doors on the front and none on the back I’ll add 4 more doors and the covers that’. In other words any flat areas that are large I just count how many door would fit fit there. I have a kitchen I’m pricing now and it has 12 doors total but I charged for 20 with all the flat areas . Hope that made sense
So are u just adding each measurement up and multiplying by your price per linear foot
Correct!
@@finefinishsupply would you please show a better break down of the way you price the job? I'm just not picking up what you are putting down. Thank you
Look like trevor noah moonlighting
Again for your Insight seems like a lot of people don't know or don't want to tell you
I’d charge $7500 at least for that kitchen
How much was your final price on that kitchen ?
Good question
Lol you know that won’t get answered . Getting a bid or price from a painter is about as rare as a unicorn
i came up with 4,900.00 right or am i missing something.
Jeffery you are exactly correct
A $100 per ft x35 +14 ft at $50 I came up 3,500?
@@FranciscoAlvarez-nl3of he never said he charges 100. Per ft. He just used 100. as an example to make his explanation simple.
Im not sure how you came up with that number. You might be right but I couldn't come up with it. I don't know what the number is but he did say if you bid per door, you might be under $5k for that job, so I'm assuming the price is higher then $5k. If he did charge $100/ft and not just use as an example, I came up with $8400. I, like many of us would like to know.
4900 that’s way to low and I bet that’s not even materials and paint cost
You never said how much to charge per linear foot
Yes he did.. .. depends on your business overhead .. he even said for that size job you could be cutting below $ 5k by doing per door..
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@Boom Stick Thanks a lot 🤛🏻
Every place has it pricepoint aswell. In one neighborhood I can't even mention an number higher than 3k or they are floored. Others I can get up to 8k and it highly depends on your quality and your sales pitch/ability.
A poor man’s $100 hundred dollars is the same as a rich man’s $ 100 dollars
A $ 100 dollars is a $100 dollars
You can’t price more or do a better job in different because your in a rich area
You do the same job no matter what
"...it's in a great neighborhood." I would throw you out of my house if I heard you say that. Very unprofessional to infer that you charge more in more affluent neighborhoods. And he's posting this in a YT video 😵💫
You would throw him out? Literally? Or are you just a comment box warrior? Be honest, have you ever thrown anyone out of anywhere, and if so , did the other person just cower away from all your power of “throwing” people around. 😂