Want painters in Guelph or a Wellington County town? We paint student rentals near the university and limestone houses in Fergus and Elora. Every town on this page typically starts at the package price: $700 covers the first 100 sq ft of floor. Send photos of each room and you get a written price.
Wellington County wraps around the city of Guelph. Guelph has its own mix: older brick homes near the downtown, post-war streets, and newer subdivisions on the south end. Around the University of Guelph, many houses are rentals. Landlords there tend to repaint in late spring and summer, when one lease ends and the next begins.
North on the Grand River, Fergus and Elora are known for 19th-century limestone. Scottish masons built many of the old houses and mills. Inside the stone shell you often find lath-and-plaster walls, deep window sills and original wood trim. The trim often carries many coats of old paint. Good prep keeps the heritage profiles crisp instead of filling them in. Larger plaster repairs are separate items, named in your written price.
Both towns have also grown at the edges. Their new subdivisions are plain drywall and paint like young homes anywhere. Owners there often want builder white replaced with real colour, which two good coats usually cover.
To the east, Erin and Rockwood are villages in rolling country. Older village houses sit next to country homes on large lots. Out on the concessions, farmhouses often have rooms from three different eras joined by one hallway. Each era needs its own prep, but the rate per square foot stays the same.
Good news for this side of the map: all five towns on our list typically sit at the lowest minimum. The package start is the smallest job, so one bedroom is enough to book. That is $700 for walls, $800 with ceilings and $970 with trim and one door. Further north, toward Arthur and Mount Forest, the minimum follows your exact address. Your written price confirms it. Doors and extras count toward the minimum, and nothing is added for the drive out to Elora or Erin.
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.
For example, imagine a landlord near the university with a 1,000 sq ft unit to refresh before a new lease. The walls are in normal condition, and four bedroom doors need paint too. Fresh Start begins at $700 for the first 100 sq ft. The other 900 sq ft are $2.65 each, which adds $2,385. Four doors at $120 add $480. The total is $3,565 before HST. If a tenant left marked or patched walls, those rooms would take the higher rate. You see that in writing first.
HST 13% $463 · with HST $4,028 · walls in normal condition
The 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.
Our jobs here run from the city to the stone towns and the farm country around them. If your town is not listed, send the address with your photos. Hillsburgh, Arthur and Mount Forest are welcome too. The rate per square foot is the same in all of them, and there is no distance charge.
Next door, see Waterloo Region to the west, Halton Region to the south and Dufferin County to the north-east. Package details are 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.
Fresh Start is $700 for the first 100 sq ft of floor, then $2.65 to $3.05 per sq ft. Ceilings and trim cost more per square foot, and extra doors are $120 each. All prices are before HST.
Yes. Lath-and-plaster walls and old trim need careful prep. Small fills and light sanding are included; larger plaster repairs are priced in writing before work starts.
Send photos and room sizes as early as you can. Expect the written price, usually within 1–2 business days of getting them, with the schedule set out on paper as well. We do not promise a finish date before the price is agreed.
Yes. Our rates are set for homes where people are living during the work. We cover floors and furniture, work one area at a time and clean up at the end of every day.
Yes. Every job gets the same written 2-year workmanship warranty, in town or on a farm lane. We carry liability insurance on every job.
By then, you have your specification, price and warranty terms in writing.
