Get RRP Certified — It's the Whole Competitive Advantage
This plan opens with the federal rule that can end a painting business in a single job: the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule applies to anyone paid to disturb more than 6 square feet of interior paint (or 20 sq ft exterior) in a home built before 1978, with penalties up to $49,772 per violation, per day. It covers both required certifications — the $300, five-year firm certification and the one-day, eight-hour renovator course — and walks through a full worked estimate, from measuring a 12x14 bedroom to a final $1,155 bid built from production hours, not guessed square footage.
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Built From Real Numbers
The plan is built on the production-hours pricing formula (hours × sell rate, plus marked-up materials, sanity-checked against the market range) rather than flat per-square-foot guessing, because under-assessing prep is named as the single most common way painters lose money on a job.
It also covers why property managers, not homeowners, are the better first customer — recurring turnover work, paid on invoice, with the lead-safe certification as the opening line that most competing painters in a real market check could not say.
What's Inside
- RRP Job Gate Checklist for every pre-1978 job before you touch a wall
- Production Hour Estimate worksheet (the job-pricing tool used in the worked example)
- Full worked estimate: measurement, prep, labor, materials, and final bid
- Starter equipment list under $1,000, plus what to rent before you buy
- OSHA ladder-safety and fall-protection rules specific to this trade
- Estimate vs. Actual Log to build your own true production rate
- Property Manager Pipeline tracker for recurring turnover accounts
- First 90-days plan and VR&E funding notes for veterans
