Looking for painters in Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax or Pickering? We repaint Durham homes on one published rate card. Fresh Start, for walls, is $700 for the first 100 sq ft of floor, before HST. From Pickering to Bowmanville, a single room is welcome. Uxbridge projects typically start at $1,000. Send photos of your rooms to get a written price.
Durham Region has two kinds of interior, and each asks for different work. Central Oshawa still has wartime and post-war streets from the auto-plant decades. Those compact houses often have plaster, layered trim and small rooms. One light colour carried through the main floor makes them feel larger.
Farther out, subdivisions spread through Ajax, Pickering and Whitby from the 1980s on. Brooklin, north Oshawa, Courtice and the Seaton lands are newer still. Many of these houses still wear builder paint. After a few winters they show nail pops and hairline cracks at the corners. That is a good moment for a first real repaint, with fills and caulking done before colour.
Typical jobs here include a whole floor before or after a move, and rental turnovers near Ontario Tech and Durham College in north Oshawa. Basement apartments under family homes are common too. They do best with washable walls in one recorded colour, so the next tenant change is a touch-up.
Durham also runs on shifts, at hospitals, plants and the generating stations. If someone in your house sleeps during the day, tell us. We plan the noisy prep away from that bedroom and write the quiet hours into your schedule.
Your rate per sq ft is the same in Pickering as in Uxbridge, and there is no distance charge. What can change with the address is the smallest project we book. Along the lake, the package start is the minimum: $700, $800 or $970, depending on the package. Uxbridge sits farther north, so projects there typically start at $1,000. At Fresh Start rates, that pays for about 210 sq ft of floor, walls only. That assumes walls in normal condition at $2.65, before HST. If your rooms add up to less than your address minimum, the minimum applies. Doors and extras count toward it, which shrinks that area. These are typical figures; your written price uses your exact address.
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.
Picture a Brooklin two-storey with 1,640 sq ft of painted floor across both levels. The owners want fresh walls everywhere, and the ceilings still look fine. Fresh Start on walls in normal condition comes to $4,781 before HST. That is $700 for the first 100 sq ft, plus $2.65 for each of the other 1,540 sq ft. Rooms full of nail pops would take the higher rate, but only those rooms. Interior doors can be added at $120 each.
HST 13% $622 · with HST $5,403 · 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.
We work along the lakeshore and up into the north of the region. That means family subdivisions, the older downtown blocks of Whitby and Bowmanville, and village homes around Lake Scugog. For Port Perry, Brock or any place not listed, send the address and we will confirm its minimum before quoting. North and west of here, see interior painting in Kawartha Lakes and York Region, or in Toronto across the Rouge. Packages and the calculator 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.
Yes. Oshawa, Ajax, Pickering and Bowmanville use the same rate as Whitby, and the package start is the smallest job. Send photos of each room with rough floor sizes. We reply the same business day.
No, it just needs honest prep. Small cracks, fills and light sanding are part of every package. Wide cracks or loose plaster are priced as a separate line, in writing, before work begins.
Yes. Give us the sleep hours when you send photos. We keep quiet work near the bedroom during those hours, and the agreed times go into your written schedule.
No. There is no distance charge anywhere we work. The address can only move the smallest project. In most towns on our list it is the package start: $700 with Fresh Start for the first 100 sq ft of floor. Uxbridge is typically $1,000, about 210 sq ft of floor, walls only.
Not usually; photos and room sizes do the job for most houses. If a visit helps, it costs nothing and you are free to say no. Once we have your photos and sizes, the price in writing normally takes 1–2 business days.
By then, you have your specification, price and warranty terms in writing.
