Get a written price before any work starts, built from the floor area of the rooms you choose. As painters in Burlington, Georgetown and Acton, we keep one rate card for the whole area. Lakeshore bungalow or sideroad farmhouse, the smallest project is typically the package start: $700 for walls, covering the first 100 sq ft of floor.
Burlington alone spans about seventy years of building. In Aldershot and the streets behind the downtown waterfront, post-war bungalows and storey-and-a-half homes have small rooms and original hardwood trim. Some still have plaster ceilings, patched around the light fixtures more than once. Those patches absorb paint differently. Small ones get spot priming as part of standard prep, which helps keep them from showing through.
Up toward the escarpment, Alton Village and the Orchard are newer. Walls are drywall, ceilings are often nine feet, and great rooms open onto kitchens. Many of these homes still wear the builder's flat white, which is thin and chalky. A move to a deeper colour may need a tinted primer, or the finish can dry patchy.
Halton Hills is different again. Georgetown and Acton have main streets with Victorian houses behind them. You also find compact 1940s storey-and-a-half houses with simple trim. Out on the sideroads toward Glen Williams, Norval and Limehouse, farmhouses and estate lots fill the map.
The same published rate card applies throughout Halton. Surface condition decides the rate for each room, and height or specialist preparation is priced separately. A distant farmhouse is booked as a run of full days, with every material brought on the first trip.
Burlington, Georgetown and Acton all fall within our standard minimum. So the smallest job in each town is typically the package start. That is $700 for walls, $800 for walls and ceilings, and $970 for walls, ceilings, trim and the first door. Every start already pays for the first 100 sq ft of floor.
The minimum is tied to your exact address, so a far rural lot is checked on its own. The rate per sq ft does not change anywhere in Halton, and there is no distance charge.
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.
An Aldershot bungalow has 1,050 sq ft of painted floor and nine interior doors. The owners want walls, ceilings, baseboards and casings, so it is Complete Home. With walls in normal condition, $970 covers the first 100 sq ft and one door. The other 950 sq ft are $4.10 each, and eight more doors are $120 each. The total is $5,825 before HST. Spot priming small plaster patches is part of standard prep. A full primer coat, if a ceiling needs one, would be its own line, shown in writing first.
HST 13% $757 · with HST $6,582 · 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.
This page covers Burlington and Halton Hills, the parts of Halton without a page of their own. Oakville and Milton each have their own page. Everything else in the region is served from here, from the Burlington waterfront to the Acton town line. Escarpment roads and village streets get the same rate card as the city. If your rural road is not listed, send the address with your photos.
Next door, see interior painting in Oakville, Milton or Brampton. The full package details are on our main 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.
Not in the rate. Halton Hills uses the same rate per sq ft as everywhere else, with no distance charge. The schedule changes slightly: rural jobs run as consecutive full days, with all materials on the first trip.
Mostly. The flat builder coat is washed and spot-primed. A change to a mid or deep colour may need a full primer coat, which appears as its own line in your written price.
The smallest job is typically the package start, from $700 for walls. It already includes the first 100 sq ft of floor. A single 9 by 11 ft bedroom fits within it.
Yes. Send the colour codes with your photos. We flag in writing any change that needs a primer coat first, and the exact product goes on your written specification.
The same business day. With photos and room sizes in hand, a written price normally takes 1–2 business days. If a visit is needed, it is free, with no obligation.
By then, you have your specification, price and warranty terms in writing.
