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Finish carpenters get shopped on a published $8 a foot installed crown Facebook special. Those numbers cannot see the grade or the extras. 80 lf of paint-grade simple cove in one 8-ft room is a different job from 80 lf of stain-grade built-up crown in a two-story foyer with 14 coped insides and an LED cove.
Open the free crown molding bid calculatorA crown-molding install is a run, then a grade, then how much of that run is actually sold. Paint-grade is miters, caulk, then paint. Stain-grade insides are coped. Simple cove is the cheap special. Colonial is more cuts. Built-up is two or three stacked pieces. Flat 8-ft is the cheap-special assumption. A cathedral or tray changes the spring angle. A two-story foyer is a scaffold ticket.
The cheap special is almost always 80 lf of paint-grade simple cove, eight insides, one 8-ft room, no demo, no LED. A stain-grade built-up foyer is a different crew day. Matching a per-foot number on a foyer job is how a sold crown job becomes a loss when the corners and the access eat the margin.
Interior painting is a coat on walls. Drywall is gypsum hang-and-finish. Cabinet refinishing is doors. Popcorn-ceiling is a scrape and skim. Plantation shutters are louvered panels in an opening. This prices a crown-molding run: linear feet, corners, grade, profile, and extras.
Load the wage with payroll burden. Add overhead as a share of direct cost. Then take margin as a share of the customer’s price, not a markup on cost. The walk-away number is total cost. A proposed price under that number loses money before you take anything out of it.
This page is a walkthrough of the arithmetic in the crown molding bid calculator. See also: should I charge $8 a foot for crown molding? and should I match a cheaper quote on a stain-grade job? It is not a millwork shop drawing, a structural opinion, a paint specification, or a price you should copy onto a contract.
Charge from linear feet, corners, grade, profile, and extras — not a published $8-a-foot special. 80 lf of paint-grade simple cove in one 8-ft room is a different job from 80 lf of stain-grade built-up crown in a two-story foyer with 14 coped insides and an LED cove.
No. Paint-grade is miters, caulk, then paint. Stain-grade insides are coped and the stock costs more — there is no caulk hiding a bad joint. Matching a paint-grade special on a stain-grade foyer is how a sold crown job becomes a loss when the corners and the access eat the margin.
Inside corners are copes on stain-grade and miters on paint-grade. A cathedral or tray ceiling changes the spring angle. A two-story foyer is a scaffold ticket. Demo, blocking, an LED cove, and matching existing casing do not live in a published per-foot special.
No. Interior painting is a coat on walls. Drywall is gypsum hang-and-finish. Cabinet refinishing is doors. Popcorn-ceiling is a scrape and skim. Plantation shutters are louvered panels in an opening. This prices a crown-molding run: linear feet, corners, grade, profile, and extras.