Hamilton interiors range from 1900s brick in Kirkendall to new drywall in Waterdown. As painters in Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Stoney Creek, we price each home on its floor area, using the same rate as everywhere else. Listed towns typically have no raised minimum, so walls start at $700 for the first 100 sq ft of floor.
Lower-city houses carry a lot of paint. In Durand, Kirkendall, Strathcona, Crown Point and the North End, trim may wear many coats of old paint. Baseboards can be a foot tall, and some casings still have corner blocks and picture rails. Before any colour goes on, the trim is assessed, and its condition decides the prep. Sound old coats may need only cleaning, a scuff and priming. Where profiles are buried under paint, stripping may be worth it in some rooms.
Light is the second subject. Brick workers' cottages and deep Victorian semis have tall, narrow rooms with windows at one end. Porches and the house next door shade them. Pale, warm walls and bright ceilings help, while a dark trend colour can swallow the little light there is. Test a colour sample on the darkest wall, not the brightest.
Up the escarpment, the Mountain changes by decade. Post-war brick bungalows often have textured ceilings and panelled rec rooms. South of the Linc and toward Binbrook and Upper Stoney Creek, newer streets paint like any modern subdivision. Ancaster and Dundas mix older village houses with larger homes from recent decades.
Some lower-city houses are now duplexes or triplexes. Their shared stairwells take more scuffs than any room, so they get a scrubbable finish.
All five places listed below sit within our standard minimum. So the smallest job is typically the package start. That is $700 for walls only, $800 with ceilings, or $970 for the full interior with its first door. Each start includes the first 100 sq ft of floor. A single bedroom or one hallway can be booked on its own.
The rate per sq ft in Hamilton matches every other town, and no distance charge is added. Your exact address sets the minimum, and the written price states it. Doors and extras count toward the minimum, and above it the formula alone sets the price.
Residential painting, priced by the size of the rooms. The three standard packages get the same preparation, protection, cleanup and warranty; the difference is which surfaces are included. Signature Finish adds enhanced prep and premium coatings. Move the slider to see the total for your floor area.
Set your painted floor area, pick a package and add your town for a typical minimum. It runs on the same rates as the cards.
A brick semi in Kirkendall has 1,340 sq ft of painted floor. The owner wants walls and ceilings, so it is Full Refresh. If the plaster is in normal shape, $800 covers the first 100 sq ft. Each of the other 1,240 sq ft is $3.45, for $5,078 before HST. If every room had many small cracks, the top rate of $3.95 gives $5,698. A house with only some cracked rooms lands in between, since the higher rate applies only where it is needed.
HST 13% $660 · with HST $5,738 · walls in normal condition
See this example in the calculatorThe rates are ranges, but your written price is one number. It says which rate applies to each room and why.
You choose the colours and give us the codes. The exact product is named in your specification, so you can look it up before we start.
We use the finished floor area of the rooms we paint. Paint rooms totalling 900 sq ft in a 2,500 sq ft home and the price uses 900.
Doors and extras count toward the total. If that total comes in below the minimum for your address, you pay the minimum, and your written price lists exactly what it covers.
A lived-in home, ceilings up to 8 ft, previously painted drywall in normal condition. Colour changes are included when two coats cover.
Most homes can be priced from photos alone. If something in them is unclear, we ask before we put a number on paper. A written price keeps both sides on the same page.
That can be a fair quote. To compare like for like, check what each one includes: how many coats, whether ceilings are in, what prep is listed, and whether the warranty is in writing.
A price over the phone would be a guess. Photos show the state of your walls, and that decides which rate applies to each room.
Getting set up, protecting the floors and cleaning up take nearly as long for one small room as for a bigger job. The start price covers that, so a small job gets the same care. Every sq ft beyond the start is charged at the published rate.
Start with the walls. Fresh Start paints walls only. Ceilings and trim can follow later as a separate job, priced in writing, though doing them together usually costs less.
The whole city is covered, along with the communities that joined it in 2001. Lower-city streets, Mountain crescents and Flamborough concessions all use one rate card. Waterdown and Binbrook are quick drives from the core. If your street is not here, send the address with your photos.
Toward Toronto, see our Halton Region and Milton pages. Every package is set out on our interior painting page.
Your price per sq ft is the same in every town. Only the smallest project changes, and your written price shows what it covers.
That is decided by the condition of each run of trim, not by a set rule. Where detail has disappeared under paint, stripping may make sense. Sound old paint can often be cleaned, scuffed, primed and given two coats. Stripping is priced separately in writing.
No. The rate per sq ft is the same across the whole city, and Ancaster, Dundas and Stoney Creek typically start at the package start, $700 for walls. That covers the first 100 sq ft of floor. Floor area, package, wall condition, doors and extras move the price.
Yes. Fresh Start, walls in two coats, suits most turnovers. Doors can be added at $120 each. Send photos and room sizes, and the written price usually follows in 1–2 business days.
Yes. Hallway walls get a scrubbable finish, doors get durable enamel, and one colour code is recorded. Stairwells and railings are priced in writing as their own items before work starts.
Smooth ceilings are part of Full Refresh, in two coats of ceiling paint. Textured or popcorn ceilings are not, because they need different prep. They are priced separately, in writing, before you agree.
By then, you have your specification, price and warranty terms in writing.
