Trade job forms · TJ-27

Paint and Material Take-Off Sheet

A free printable paint quantity take-off sheet — each surface's area, condition, product, coats and litres from the tin's coverage, with an order total.

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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

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What this sheet is for

Turn a walk round the house into an order that is right first time. The working is shown, so a short tin can be traced back to the wall that caused it.

Who it is for

Painters and decorators pricing and ordering a job, and homeowners or landlords measuring up before buying paint.

How to use it

Take one line per surface in each room — walls, ceiling, woodwork, radiators — with the area less openings.
Note the condition and prep, the product and colour, and the coats you judge each surface needs.
Copy the coverage from the tin or data sheet into its column and work out the litres per line.
Total each product across every line it appears on, choose tin sizes, and list the sundries.

What is on the sheet

2 pages, in this order:

Page 1

Printed under the title: Measuring up a decorating job before it is ordered: area, product, coats and litres, surface by surface.

Coverage from the tin, coats from the wall. Coverage is the manufacturer's figure for that product on that surface, printed on the tin or the data sheet — copy it into its column for each line and work the litres out from it. A bare wall, a stained ceiling and a previously painted one drink different amounts of the same paint; the coats column is your judgement.

Write-on lines: Customer · Address · Measured on · Measured by · Stripping / lining needed where · Furniture & floors: who covers · Days allowed · Access needed

Surfaces — one line per surface in each room — walls, ceiling, woodwork, radiators

Table, 12 rows: Room · Surface · Area · Condition & prep · Product & colour · Coats · Coverage (tin) · Litres

Page 2

Order — totals per product across every surface it appears on

Table, 6 rows: Product · Colour / code · Total litres · Tins & size · Supplier · Ordered

Sundries — filler, caulk, tape, sheeting, abrasives, rollers, brushes, cleaner

Table, 5 rows: Item · Qty · Item · Qty · Item · Qty

Ruled lines: Notes — sketch, colour numbers, anything the customer asked for

Questions

Why is there no coverage figure printed?

Because coverage is the manufacturer's figure for that product on that surface, and it changes between paints, finishes and backgrounds. The column is for the figure on your tin; the sheet would be wrong for most of them if it printed one.

How is this different from the paint and decorating record?

That record is the homeowner's note of what colour went where, kept for touching up years later. This is the decorator's working sheet before the job — areas, coats and litres — and it is done before a tin is opened.