About

Why we price in public

Most painting quotes are a number with no working shown. We think that's the actual problem with the trade, so we built the opposite.

Fast Painting is a new company, and we would rather say that on the About page than have you work it out. There is no gallery of past jobs here and no wall of reviews, because we have not earned them yet.

What we can do on day one is be straight about how a price is built — which, having watched this trade from the inside, is the thing homeowners actually want and almost never get.

We hold the contract

When you accept a quote, your agreement is with Fast Painting. The crew that turns up works under our work order, not their own contract with you. This is called being contractor of record, and it is different from what most “instant quote” websites do.

The difference matters when something goes wrong. A lead-generation site sells your details to three contractors and steps back; if the one you picked disappears in year two, your warranty disappears with them. Because we hold the contract, the warranty is ours to honour. If a crew stops working with us, yours doesn’t lapse.

It also means we carry the risk of choosing badly, which is a useful incentive. We check every crew’s liability and workers compensation cover before they are offered a job, and the system removes anyone whose policy has lapsed — not as a policy we promise to follow, but as a rule in the software that cannot be talked out of it.

Why the price breakdown is public

Your estimate shows the paintable wall surface we calculated, the gallons that implies, and every adjustment with the percentage it added — two-storey staging, condition, trim, colour change, access. You can check our arithmetic.

We do this because the alternative is asking you to trust a stranger’s number, and because a price you can inspect is a price we have to be able to defend. It disciplines us as much as it informs you.

What we won’t do

Where we work

Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. The full list is here. We stay inside it because pricing a house well depends on knowing what houses in that area are built from.

See the number before you talk to anyone

Type your address. We read your county’s record of the house and price it the same way we would standing in front of it — about a minute, no phone call.

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