Websites for painting contractors

A painting website that sells the work before the first coat goes on.

Show the preparation as well as the finished room. We write your pages around what you paint, how you work and the photos that help customers picture the result.

Ten to thirty minutes to answer. A preview in 48 hours once we have your answers and payment.

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$40 a monthFive edit requests a month included.

More about your website

A good paint job starts before the paint does. Customers want to know you understand that. Show your prep, your finished work, what you paint, and how the estimate works, including the details that separate a careful crew from a cheap bid.

ninthstreetpainting.example Ninth Street Painting, the sample website, on a desktop Explore Ninth Street’s demo ↗
The Console comes with it. The Ninth Street Painting sample Console, on the Board

Ninth Street’s is a written example. Yours starts with your business.

This is how we build your site

Your questionnaire gives us the services, photos and business details to write and build your site, on your own domain.

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A sample business. Ninth Street Painting is fictional. Its prices, reviews and job stories are examples. We build your site with your business details, photos and genuine customer reviews.

What we build into your website

You answer questions about what you paint, where you work and what your spec is. We write the pages and build a site like the demo here, on your own domain, with your name on it. Yours would be the same thing: a working site, not a mockup. Inside it: a written-spec argument, a failure table with a fix on every row, and an estimator that takes your numbers. The words are the ones a painter would say. The questionnaire replaces those examples with your own.

Tell us which qualifications you’d like customers to see. We can include certifications, licenses and insurance details you provide.

Tell us which coatings you use and what preparation your quote includes. We’ll explain your process on the site. If you want an estimator, we’ll build it around the rates you choose to publish. Send me the questions ›

Where the job goes after the quote goes out

Your Console keeps customer messages and job details together. Try Ninth Street’s sample below. The workflow tools draft texts for you to review, then send from your own phone.

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We build your website with the Console and workflow tools included. We’ll help you set up the tools that fit your work.

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$40/mo

Your website, Console and workflow tools. Writing, hosting and upkeep included.

48 hrs

Your first preview after your questionnaire and payment. Complete the launch checklist, then ask us to launch.

Cancel anytime

No exit fee. Your site stays up through the period you’ve paid for.

Or $400/year. Save $80 on twelve monthly payments.

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Your domain is registered in your name and billed at cost, about $11 a year.

Your mobile plan and optional voice line

The tools draft the message; you review it and tap to send on your phone. Texts use your carrier plan, with no per-message fee from Plainsmith.

The optional front desk answers calls you forward when you can’t pick up and prepares a text reply. We check forwarding on your number during setup. Its Twilio voice line costs about $1.15 a month plus about a cent a minute, billed to your own account. See provider costs.

Cancellation and refunds

Cancel from your account. Your website comes down and workflows stop at the end of the month or year you paid for.

You have 14 days to request a refund, starting when we send the finished website for review. We return your full website payment, including $400 if you paid annually. Domain registration is nonrefundable; you keep the domain.

Your Console stays open in read-only mode, free, so you can download your contacts, messages and appointments.

Buying the website to host elsewhere

Your domain, words, photos and logo belong to you from the start. The website’s design and code cost $499 less your plan credit to buy.

Monthly: this month’s $40 comes off. Annual: we credit $400 divided by 12 for each unfinished month, including the month you’re in. Your account shows the exact price.

Your files and hosting setup arrive within seven days. You take over hosting, updates and renewals. After a buyout, hosting and workflow service finish with your current billing month. Read the ownership terms.

What your site will know about painting

The arguments that win when the homeowner is holding three bids, researched for your trade and written into your pages. Read them the way a homeowner will. The questionnaire turns them into yours.

Quoting by the job, and writing down what the job is

An hourly rate tells a homeowner what you earn, not what the work costs, and it invites them to compare wages and hire the lowest number. A job price makes them compare the work instead. Across Front Range bids in 2026, interior painting runs roughly $2 to $6 a square foot of floor and exteriors $1.50 to $4. The range your own market sets is what goes on your page. But square footage hides the real driver. A crew covers open wall around three times faster than it cuts in around trim, which is why a trim-heavy room lands at the top of the range. Saying that out loud is what makes a higher number read as competence rather than as an excuse.

Put the prep on its own line. Patching, sanding, caulking, masking and priming shouldn’t disappear into a base rate, because the cheaper bid is almost always cheaper by leaving them out — and the homeowner cannot see that unless somebody itemizes it.

It is the clearest way to be visibly different from the low bid, and it costs nothing but a line on the estimate. Cabinet refinishing prices cleanest per door and drawer front — the customer can count the price the way they count the doors.

The spec is the whole argument: product named, coats counted at the coverage on the can, prep itemized, exclusions listed, and a cheap bid will not produce one, because producing it means being held to it. Your spec starts with the questionnaire ›

The south and west walls fail first, and the honest bid says so

A mile up, UV runs roughly three to four percent stronger for every thousand feet of elevation (the same number solar installers plan around), and the sun side of a Front Range house is spent years before the shade side. A page that offers the full repaint AND the elevation option, full system on the sun side with wash and touch-up on the rest, wins the customer nobody else gave a choice.

The overnight low, not the daytime high

Modern exterior paint goes on at 35°F and up — but it needs the wall to STAY warm enough while it cures. In October the 2pm reading says yes and the 10pm reading says no, and the honest schedule follows the 10pm one.

The wash-to-paint wait

Washing drives water into wood, and wood paints properly only when a moisture meter says it is dry. A shaded north wall can hold water for days — the wait is the service, and “wash and paint same day” is a confession.

Monsoon mornings, wind in the afternoons

July storms arrive at two, and the afternoon gusts that come off the foothills carry overspray onto cars. August exteriors run mornings; spray days watch the wind. A schedule that says so up front beats one that discovers it mid-job.

What the one-star reviews actually say

Across consumer complaint boards and contractor forums the same short list repeats, and only one item on it is about painting. The cards below are what homeowners arrive already believing. Your pages can answer every one before the first call.

Nobody called back

The most common complaint in this trade is a contractor who never called back. Somebody was actively trying to hand them money. Then late starts, and jobs left unfinished.

The deposit vanished

The worst stories all begin the same way: a large deposit paid up front and a contractor never seen again. A site that takes no deposit, and says so, answers the trade’s darkest story head on.

Paint on the carpet

Damage to the house, and property broken without anyone acknowledging it. Homeowners want to know what happens to their floors and their furniture. Strangers will be in the house for three days.

The scope moved

The moment homeowners dread: being told mid-job that something is extra, or that moving the furniture was on them. An itemized scope on your page — what prep includes, who moves what — settles it before the first call.

The check cleared, the phone stopped

Not standing behind the work. A walkthrough before the balance is due, and a named warranty period, are worth more here than any adjective.

Craft is assumed

Every painter claims quality craftsmanship, so the words have stopped carrying anything. Reliability is the claim that still does, because it’s the one a customer can check.

What we can build into a painting site

We read what painters put on their own sites, and what their customers say in reviews — and we give the jobs that make the money, cabinets and the buildings on schedules, the same room as the exteriors that get searched. The questionnaire asks which of these belong on yours.

Interior and exterior, separated

They are different sales. Exterior buyers ask about weather windows and how long the finish lasts; interior buyers ask about dust, furniture and how many days you’re in the house. Two clear paths beat one long list.

A finish date they can hold you to

Schedule dread is half the trade’s reputation. The convincing version is specific: crew size, days on site, and what happens if weather moves an exterior start.

An estimate form that asks about the rooms

Rooms, surfaces, ceiling height, a few photos — collected before the callback, so your first reply is about their job, not phone tag about the basics. The photos land in a job file on that customer — where the itemized scope, and any mid-job change agreed in writing, stays with the job.

Send us the change.

After your site goes live

Send the hours, photo or wording you want changed. We make the edit.

5Edit requests included each month

Most go up the same day.

Put your changes in one message. Everything in that message counts as one request.

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Your direct line

Edit request
Your request

Can you change Saturdays to appointment only? I’m keeping weekdays the same.

Plainsmith makes the edit
Plainsmith✓ Done

Saturday now shows “By appointment” in your contact section. The weekday hours are unchanged.

Your request and our reply stay together in your account.

Sample conversation. These examples don’t send a request or change a website.

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Edit allowances and how to reach us

From your account, from your phone, in a sentence, and it lands on our phones the second you hit send. The two of us read every message that comes through your account; you meet us at the bottom of this page. We work through edit requests in the order they arrive. Most go up the same day. Five edit requests a month are included, and how much goes into each one is up to you — everything in a single message counts as one, so send them together. A sixth queues for next month, or $10 puts it up now.

What happens when the monsoon rolls in at two

A wet afternoon can move an exterior job and leave you rearranging the week. Quotes still need a follow-up while homeowners compare bids, and the phone rings while you’re on a ladder. Keep those jobs and the next steps in one place.

Weather rescheduler

Answers the reshuffled afternoon first: it moves the day and readies the text for every affected customer at once — your taps send them, the night before rather than at eight in the morning.

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Quote chaser

Drafts the day 2, 7 and 14 follow-ups in your own words for your tap, and replies come straight to you.

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The front desk

Catches the call for you: the caller hears a greeting with your business’s name, the message and transcript land in your hand, and the reply is drafted for your tap — sent from your own number, so the caller is dealing with your business rather than an answering service.

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Appointment reminders

Answer the complaint every arrival window creates — “nobody told me when you’d show up”: confirmed at booking, again at 48 hours, and the time itself the morning of.

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Try the tool examples above. Optional provider services have their own charges. See provider costs. Send me the questions ›

Try the estimator

Try Ninth Street Painting’s example prices below. Your website uses the rates and minimum you choose.

The estimator uses your rates. Your pages also explain common problems and how you handle them, using details you confirm. Keep agreed visits in your Console calendar.

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Fair questions

Do I have to publish prices?
No. We can explain how you quote instead: what preparation includes, what affects the price and whether you have a minimum. If you publish a starting price, we’ll say which work it covers.
How do you show my license or credentials?
Give us the credential, issuing body and any number customers can check. We’ll use the exact qualification you hold and verify the details with you before publishing.
What photos work best?
Completed rooms and details of your preparation. Taped edges, covered furniture and close-ups of the finish show customers how you work in a home like theirs.
Can the site cover commercial and residential work?
Yes, with separate information for each. Commercial clients can find scheduling and insurance details; homeowners can see how you prepare rooms and protect the things inside them.
Can search engines and AI tools find my business?
We describe your services and location on the page and in the information search engines read. This helps them understand your business. We can’t promise a ranking, recommendation or number of inquiries.
Is Plainsmith right for a painting company with 1–3 crews?
Yes, if you still work on the jobs and take the calls yourself. We handle the website; included workflow tools help with missed calls and follow-ups. Tell us if you need dispatch, payroll or accounting integration so we can check the fit.

Ten to thirty minutes of questions. Then we build.

Tell us about your business. We use your answers to write and build the preview, then you check the services, prices and contact details before it goes live.

The “we” is Jason Walls and Tadar Puakpaibool. Jason came to software from four trades — drilling, roofing, cabinets, machining — and started Plainsmith from Golden. He is responsible for your website build and custom tools, and handles technical problems when you contact us. Tadar is the marketer: fifteen years of campaigns and launches for brands including Red Robin and Procter & Gamble, and what each page says, top to bottom, is his call. Here’s our story.

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