Painting

The Painting pack tunes Manuall for interior and exterior repaints, cabinets, deck and fence staining, and the prep that decides whether any of it lasts. Apply it at signup or from Settings -> Vertical Packs.

What the pack adds

Custom fields

• Customer: Exterior Material (Wood, Stucco, Brick, Fiber Cement, Vinyl), Last Painted.
• Job: Finish (Flat, Eggshell, Satin, Semi-Gloss, Gloss), Prep Level (Light, Moderate, Heavy), Color Code(s). Color Code(s) sits on the job, so a repeat house's color lives on the old job record; if you would rather carry it on the customer, add that field in Custom fields.
• Lead: Square Footage. Six fields in all, none on Equipment or Invoice.

Job templates

Thirteen, each carrying the duration the slot finder uses: Interior Room (4 h), Whole-Home Interior Repaint (40 h), Exterior House Full (24 h), Pressure Wash + Prep (4 h), Exterior Touch-Up (2 h), Cabinet Painting (16 h), Deck / Fence Staining (8 h), Drywall Patch + Paint (4 h), Popcorn Ceiling Removal + Repaint (10 h), Garage Floor Epoxy Coating (12 h), Commercial Repaint After Hours (16 h), Annual Maintenance Visit (3 h), Color Consultation (1 h).

Each pre-fills billable lines whose quantities are placeholder sizes, not measurements: 2,000 sq ft of wall on Exterior House Full, 30 doors on Cabinet Painting, six rooms and 1,200 sq ft of ceiling on Whole-Home Interior Repaint. Correct them from your own takeoff. Skills are Painting plus a second tag where the work needs one: Interior, Exterior, Cabinetry, Staining, Drywall, Coatings, Commercial, PressureWashing. Twelve of the thirteen carry a checklist; Color Consultation does not. See Job templates.

Services

Twenty-five, each a 2025 US national average badged "Set your price" until you save it. Five are flagged for public booking and the public site: Color Consultation, Drywall Patch, Exterior Wash and Surface Prep, Touch-Up Service Visit, Annual Paint Maintenance Plan. The area lines stay off both, because nobody picks a per-square-foot line off a dropdown. Prices live in the Price Book.

• Interior (8): Interior Painting Per Room, Interior Wall Painting Two Coats (per sq ft), Ceiling Painting (per sq ft), Trim and Baseboard Painting (per linear ft), Interior Door Painting Both Sides (per door), Stain-Blocking Primer Coat (per sq ft), Wallpaper Removal and Wall Prep (per room), Popcorn Ceiling Removal and Smooth Finish (per sq ft).
• Exterior, staining, cabinetry (7): Exterior Painting Prep and Two Coats (per sq ft), Exterior Trim Fascia and Soffit (per linear ft), Exterior Wash and Surface Prep, Deck Cleaning and Staining (per sq ft), Fence Staining (per linear ft), Cabinet Door and Drawer Front Refinishing (per door), Cabinet Box and Face Frame Refinishing (per linear ft).
• Repair, coatings, labor (10): Drywall Patch Texture Match and Paint, Garage Floor Epoxy Coating (per sq ft), Color Consultation, Touch-Up Service Visit, Trip Charge, Hourly Rate, After-Hours and Weekend Premium (per hour), Paint and Debris Haul-Away (per load), Lead-Safe Containment and Cleanup for a pre-1978 home, Annual Paint Maintenance Plan (per year).

Checklists

• Interior Prep, 18 items. Masking, plates off, patch and sand, tape, two coats, then the field data: room temperature, humidity, moisture on patched or water-stained areas, primer used, wet film thickness, dry time between coats, the PCA P5 benchmark sample sign-off, and the PCA P1 raking-light inspection. Two photo items, one of them pre-existing damage before masking.
• Exterior Prep + Paint, 19 items. Wash, scrape, caulk, prime, mask, two coats, plus air and surface temperature, dew point, substrate moisture, tape-pull adhesion (ASTM D3359), mildew treatment, wash method and pressure, rain-free hours, a required lead-test answer on a pre-1978 home, and required before-and-after photos of all four elevations.
• Pre-Service Safety, 11 items. Ladder at 4 to 1 and 3 ft above the landing, overhead power lines, fall protection above 6 ft, respirator selection, solvent rags in a sealed metal can, extinguisher and first aid, work zone taped off. All three ship for you to check against your own procedure, not to replace it; see Checklists.

Parts

Twenty-one across eight categories: Primers (3), Interior Paint (3), Exterior Paint (1), Stains and Coatings (1), Caulk and Fillers (4), Masking (3), Application Consumables (3), Chemicals (2). Cost and price are national averages, stock is zero and there is no reorder point, because nothing here knows what is on your truck. Counting it is your first pass; see Parts and inventory.

One generic line per product type is this pack's weakest assumption for the trade. If you run one brand for production work and another for premium, or two grades of exterior acrylic, add a part per product you actually buy: the part is what the bill of materials consumes and what lands as job cost.

That bill of materials wires 18 of the 25 services to what they burn, 42 rows. Per-area services carry fractional quantities, so a square foot of two-coat interior wall pulls 0.0057 gallon, which is 350 sq ft per gallon per coat. Interior Painting Per Room pulls 2.5 gallons, two roller covers, a roll of tape, two tubes of caulk and a quarter quart of spackle. Seven carry none: the flat service and labor lines, plus Garage Floor Epoxy Coating, because no epoxy kit ships as a part. Masking film and the 515 spray tip stock but tie to no service.

Seasonal pricing proposals

• Peak Exterior Season, Exterior Painting Prep and Two Coats, May 1 to Sep 15, x1.15.
• Deck Season, Deck Cleaning and Staining, Apr 15 to Jul 15, x1.15.
• Holiday Rush, Interior Painting Per Room, Oct 15 to Dec 15, x1.12.
• Winter Slow Season, Interior Wall Painting Two Coats, Jan 5 to Mar 10, x0.88.

Four proposals, all switched off. The engine ignores an inactive rule, so nothing moves until you turn one on. The windows are written for a four-season market; on the Gulf Coast or in Phoenix the exterior season is roughly the opposite half of the year, so edit the dates first. See Seasonal pricing.

Typical workflow

• Measure on the walk, quote from the estimate. Anything past a few thousand dollars goes out with a deposit (Estimates and deposits). The deposit holds the crew date, which is the reason to take one in this trade.
• Added rooms, extra patching, a color change after the first coat: that is a change order or the Hourly Rate line, not a quiet edit of the original scope.
• Exterior work moves for weather. Reschedule on the calendar rather than paint into a dew point you will be back to fix.
• Drywall or carpentry riding along on a repaint goes on the job as a subcontractor, so the cost lands in that job's margin.
• The Annual Maintenance Visit template, wrapped in a service contract on recurring work, is how a repaint customer stays yours until the next repaint.

Estimating by area, and the punch list

Wall area is perimeter times ceiling height, and on a repaint you do not deduct doors and windows: you still cut around them, and cutting is where the hours go. Ceilings and trim are separate lines because they are separate rates and separate product; a room price that quietly includes them loses money the first time somebody adds the ceilings.

Prep is the variable that decides the job, which is why Prep Level is a field. Heavy prep belongs on the estimate as real lines, a Stain-Blocking Primer Coat, a Wallpaper Removal, an hour of Hourly Rate, not as a bigger round number on the wall line that the customer cannot check. On a pre-1978 house the exterior checklist forces a lead-test answer, and there is a Lead-Safe Containment line to bill when it comes back positive.

The punch list is the raking-light item near the bottom of the interior checklist. Walk it yourself with a light before the customer does: what they find is a trip you cannot bill, what you find is still on the clock you already sold. Touch-Up Service Visit is what you charge outside the warranty window; inside it, run the callback through warranties and callbacks.

Re-applying and mixing packs

Pressure Washing is the common pairing, since the exterior wash is already half your prep. Handyman covers the drywall and carpentry that comes with a repaint, and the Deck Building or Fence pack suits a shop that builds what it stains. Applying a second pack, or this one again, only adds what is missing and never overwrites an edit you made.