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True Coat PaintingArlington, VA · since 2006 (301) 555-0142
Interior painting · Arlington, Alexandria and Northern Virginia

Walls, ceilings and trim. Two coats, real prep, priced up front.

Answer a few questions about the rooms and see a real price range in about a minute. The patching, caulking and priming are in the number, not in a change order.

Free walkthrough before work starts Licensed and insured Two-year workmanship warranty
Instant price range
Free walkthroughWe confirm the number before the first drop cloth goes down.
Two-year warrantyOn workmanship, in writing, on every job.
Prep in the pricePatching, caulking and priming are quoted, never absorbed.
Our own paintersEmployees, not subcontractors, in your home.
What we paint

Interior repaints, start to finish

Walls, ceilings, trim and doors, with the prep and the cleanup included in the quote. We move the furniture back before we leave.

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Rooms and whole-house interiors

Two coats of premium washable paint, priced per room with a size tier. One bedroom or the whole house.

Keep them or skip them

Ceilings

Flat ceilings in ceiling white, quoted per ceiling. Vaulted rooms and two-story foyers get staging and two painters.

By the foot and the count

Trim, doors and windows

Baseboard, casing and crown by the linear foot; doors and windows by the count. The brushwork a per-square-foot price never shows.

Three tiers

Prep and repair

Nail holes, anchor holes, skim coats and water stains. You grade the walls, each tier carries its own amount, and the wall you forgot is not a surprise.

Primer included

Color changes

Burgundy to soft white takes a primer coat plus two finish coats. Same color in one coat is priced as a plain discount.

Site visit

Exterior painting

Siding, trim, shutters and doors. We walk around first, because peeling and bare wood decide the price.

How we price

A range you can plan around, before anyone shows up with a ladder

The form at the top of this page uses our real rates. It shows a range rather than a single number because your room count and our tape measure will not agree to the foot.

Tell us about the rooms

How many and how big, ceilings, trim and doors, what shape the walls are in, coats, color change and whether the house is occupied. The same questions we ask on every call, answered in a minute.

See the range

Midpoint plus or minus 8%. Jobs under our $650 minimum quote at the minimum, and a stairwell or two-story foyer raises that floor to $1,600. Whole-house repaints get a walkthrough instead of a number.

We walk through and confirm

Free visit, exact price, written warranty. Travel is priced from your ZIP, and our winter interior special rate (-10%) applies from December 1 to February 28.

Service area

Based in Arlington. We travel, and we say what it costs.

Your ZIP code sets the travel line on your estimate. No surprises on the invoice, and no free hour on the Beltway that gets built into everyone else’s price.

  • Local: Arlington and AlexandriaZIPs 222xx and 223xx
    No travel fee
  • Outer ring: Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and DCZIPs 220xx, 221xx, 200xx and 201xx
    +$60
  • Everywhere else we travelAny other ZIP we can reach
    +$120 and +5%
Notes for anyone evaluating the demo
  • Priced path. Pick Interior painting, then: 4 rooms, standard size, 4 ceilings, stairwell No, 190 ft of trim, 6 doors and windows, moderate prep, skip the photo, two coats, dark to light, occupied. Give a name and mobile and ZIP 22201. The live pricing engine returns $3,453 – $4,054 with the disclaimer under it, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox.
  • Travel zones. Repeat with ZIP 22101 (McLean) and the outer-ring fee (+$60) applies: $3,509 – $4,119. ZIP 22401 (Fredericksburg) matches no listed prefix and falls to the catch-all zone (+$120 and +5%, the percent first): $3,736 – $4,386.
  • Out of area. Use ZIP 99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.
  • Minimums. 1 small vacant room with no ceiling, trim, doors or prep, same color, two coats, comes out below our floor and is quoted at it: $650 – $702. Answer Yes to the stairwell question and the floor rises to $1,600: $1,600 – $1,728.
  • Over the ceiling. 20 rooms, great room size, stairwell No, 0 ceilings, trim and doors, light prep, two coats, dark to light, occupied. The midpoint ($12,800) clears the service’s $12,000 threshold, so the widget routes to “we’ll take a proper look” rather than printing a number. Pick “same or similar color” instead and it prices: $10,304 – $12,096.
  • Routing mode. Pick Exterior painting. That service is in site-visit mode, so it never shows a price at all.
  • Season. The figures above are for today, outside the winter interior special. From December 1 to February 28 every priced figure is 10% lower; the priced path then returns $3,108 – $3,648.
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