I'm painting my aunt's house. She wants to pay per square foot opposed to hourly. So I have the skills but zero business sense. I've never worked for myself besides favors and small T&M jobs. I'm not interested in starting my own business so any advice would help. This is cut and roll. Nail pops. And plenty of dings. Figuring a half day of prep for two bedrooms and a large bonus room and hall. No casings. No doors. No sashes. Just walls.

When getting the sq. ft. of a room do I just go L x W = total? Of the room

Or is it per wall? Plus ceiling?

then add each wall plus ceiling?

I'm lost.

charge per sq. ft also??

Hi, Anderson_13!

Are all of the surface areas perfectly flat and who will be supplying the paint, please?

Also, how long do you think that it will take you to do the patching that you'll need to do?

Thanks!

My Aunt's buying the paint, I'm buying all my sundries. Because she doesn't know what I'll need. All the walls are flat minus one skylight that's strangly shaped 5' - 7' deep. I have two walls that dive into a stair well.

I think the prep and patching will take a day maybe half. Upon further investigation there are only a few nail pops. Which will be my deepest fills

I figure it'll take me a couple weeks solo from start to finish.