Make Money on All of Your Paint Projects

To save time and send out more bids, a lot of paint contractors bid strictly using square footage of the house foot print.  Some use multipliers, and some don't. Unfortunately, they haven’t accurately factored in the true wall surface area and elevated or vaulted ceilings, French doors, crown molding, windows, or chair rail.  Take for example a project that is 400 sq ft.  Because a 20’ x 20’ room can have a surface area 64% less than 4 rooms measuring 10’ x 10’, your material estimate alone could easily be off by 64%. Let’s not get started on how the prep work and man hours will be off.

Bidding blind or pulling numbers out of the air like this often causes contractors to bid too low.  Although bidding low or low-balling your estimates can guarantee you lots of work, you will quickly work yourself right out of business.

That’s why On Center Software has created tools to help you save time on your estimates so that you can not only bid more projects, but bid profitable projects every time.  At On Center Software, we believe that you should cover material costs, overhead, insurance, and still turn a profit with every project that you bid.

Beginning with a set of electronic plans, On-Screen Takeoff allows you to accurately account for every wall and ceiling surface- straight or curved.  According to your preference, you can create several surface conditions to account for color schemes, number of applications, faux finishes, coverings, and murals.

With On-Screen Takeoff, you can also quickly find linear measurements to account for crown molding, rails, and different bases. Even tracking count objects such as doors and windows becomes incredibly easy and organized.

When bidding commercial high-rises, the typical groups function comes in handy to help you instantly track and calculate repeating areas and duplicated office rooms.  Tracking what you have already taken off becomes even easier with the fact that “if it’s colored, it’s counted”.  Being able to see everything that has been taken off assures you, the GC, owner, and client that everything has been accounted for and will get done.