Homeowner guides

Painting guides for homeowners.

Plain answers to the questions homeowners ask us most, written by the people who do the work.

How to compare painting quotes

What a good quote should list, how to check out the painter behind it, the red flags, and where the saving in a cheap quote usually comes from.

The two numbers a painting quote needs per room, and the one thing nearly everybody gets backwards: never subtract the windows and doors.

Getting a quote from us? The guide to our online quote explains every screen, and what painting costs in the GTA sets our prices beside the ones other painters publish.