Frequently Asked Questions About House Painting

Providing industry leading house painting at affordable pricing

For comparison of Barnoski Painting versus our local competition, we spend 1.5-2 days cleaning and prepping your home and 2 days painting. So we only charge about $4,500 to paint your house. Whereas cheaper contractors — or unlicensed painters — have been charging $6,000 to $7,000 for poor quality work. They’ll spend about one-half day on prep, and a day and a half to paint. Meaning they *should* charge you about $3,500 for that type of work, so you are over-paying for a lesser quality result.

In short, we only charge a little more than cheap contractors for 2 times the work. Plus you’ll have complete peace of mind from Barnoski Painting — a licensed, bonded, fully insured contractor.

MYTH: I’ll save money by hiring an unlicensed painting contractor.

No, you won’t. And it’s illegal. The job can be shut down at a moment’s notice and you’ll be fined by the City and State for hiring an unlicensed contractor. No one can hire anyone to work on their home for more than $500 by law.

What’s worse is the unlicensed contractor does not have insurance which makes YOU, the home owner, 100% liable for any and all injuries, accidents or damage that occurs. That’s a problem you don’t want, and one that’s is super easy to avoid.

Why is the cost to paint a house so high?

Over the past decade, the average house painting job used to cost around $5,000 to $6,000. Since 2020, thanks to the global pandemic, supply chain problems, and more, the costs of everything have risen. Regardless of market conditions, the cost of every professional paint job is based on three expenses — Overhead, Labor and Material.

Overhead • Every reputable painting contractor has overhead which includes licensing, permits, marketing, accounting and general use equipment (trucks, machinery and tools). Larger companies use 50% of each jobs price toward overhead, as a small independent company with 45 years of recognition at Barnoski’s Painting we have limited our overhead to 15% — saving our customers money, which we invest into the work detail, providing a much better quality paint job than our competition.

Labor • Labor is the biggest expense on most residential jobs. It requires a decent amount of man hours to complete job, and do it the right way.

Materials • Paint, primers, fillers and applications are direct cost on each job. Paint varies from about $40 per gallon to $100 per gallon depending on quality and name brand. We always recommend a premium product, and can get a discount as a licensed contractor, of which we pass on the savings to our customers.