Cost of Painting a House in India

Know The details of house painting cost for one room and the whole house as this blog help you to save the cost. also know the labor cost of painting a house per square foot India

13 Nov 2021

Do you want to know the Cost of Painting a House in India?

If Yes,

Then, you have come to the right place

Many times what happens is that,

You go to the painter or to the contractor and you don't know about the small things that have to be done for painting.

They will tell you that we will do all the measures and in the end, you have to give us money.

Because you do not know how much is the cost of Putty and paints in the market and also the labor cost.

They can cheat you too.

Even you don’t aware of which Putty, primer, or paint will be good for your house.

So you need to think right about all this, which you will get through this blog.

This will give you the advantage that your walls will not be damaged and money will not be spent too much.

After reading this blog, you will get to know how much your house paint will cost.

Items required and costs

So here you’ll know what the rates of the items are and how much space it covers in the walls per unit so that you can understand in a very easy way.

the idea that how you can paint the house in less cost.

See the table below to know the market rates.

Item Required	Area covered /Kg or /Lt	Cost (Rs)
White Cement wash	10 - 15 ft²/kg	20-25 /Kg
Putty Double coat	12-16 ft²/kg	20-25 /Kg
Primer Single coat	100-150 ft²/Lt	125-150/Lt
Paint Double coat	80-120 ft²/Lt	150-180 /Lt
Labour		8-10 /ft²

These items are available in the market with different variations of rates.

If you want to expanse more then go through the good quality paint. Below you’ll get the price of all available paints in the market.

General thumb Rule-if you want to Paint a house of 1000 sq Ft (25 X 40) and It's A fresh painting.

How much Cost of Painting a House in India would take?

With the help of an example here, you will understand how much will the total cost of painting in just one room.

And with the help of this Example, you can easily find the cost of the rooms of your entire house.

So we have a room here, a window and a door.

And the Dimension is below-

Entry room of the house- 10X14 room size where there is a

Window 3 X 4 and
Doors 3 X 7
Height of the Room =10 ft
All the dimensions are in Feet.

Calculation of covered area wall painting

First of all, the area of the walls needs to be determined. After that, all the windows and doors have to be subtracted from them. You will find an area where you need to paint after deduction.

So this table is for you to understand.

Items	Covered area	Door/window Deduction	Area(ft²)
Wall-1	10 X 10	3X7 (Door)	79
Wall-2	10 X 14	3X4 (Window)	128
Wall-3	10 X 10		100
Wall-4	10 X 14		140
Ceiling	10 X 14		140
Total Area			587 ft²

 Final cost of wall painting in one room

Now we are going to calculate the cost of the 12 X 10 size room and on the basis of that, you can find the Rate of Painting of the entire House.

Items Required	Area covered /kg or /lt	The amount required /Kg or /L	Rate per unit (Rupees)	Cost (Rupees)
Whitewash	22 ft²/kg	26.7 Kg	25	667.5
Putty Double coat	15 ft²/kg	39 Kg	25	975
Primer Single coat	150 ft²/Lt	4 Lt	120	480
Paint Double coat	100 ft²/kg	5.87 Lt	175	1028
Brush+Putty blade+Sand Paper+ Role				1000
Labour			8 ft²	4696
Total Cost				8846.00 approx (9000 /-)

You will see this specification written in the bags while you purchase. So before going further, see the bag and ask the retailers.

Now let's say if you want to know the cost of painting a house per square foot in India Like painting work of the house of 1000 square feet House.

As per thumb Rule-

Ceiling Area=Floor Area

And, the Internal wall area increased by 3.5 Times to the ceiling area.

Therefore, the Internal area= 3.5 X 1000= 3500 sq Ft.

So the total paint area= 1000 + 3500 = 4500 sq Ft

Items	Area covered /kg or /lt	The amount required /Kg or /L	Rate per unit (Rupees)	Cost (Rupees)
Whitewash	22 ft²/kg	204.5 Kg	25	5112
Putty	15 ft²/kg	300 Kg	25	7500
Primer	150 ft²/Lt	30 L	120	3600
Paint	100 ft²/kg	45 L	175	7875
Labour	8-10 ft²		8	36,000
Total Cost				60,087

For all the rooms Including a bathroom, toilet and others (All interior). With this, your entire cost would be within 60,000 Rupees.

And if you going to purchase the items in bulk, you may have to pay less.

Many times it happens that we get confused, after all which putty will be right rate-wise for your house.

So don’t be hesitate

Here is the List of the Putty that you can purchase for your House-

Name of the putty	Amount	Rates
Birla white	40 Kg	900-950 /-
Asian Paint	40 Kg	800-900 /-
JK Cement	40 Kg	850-900 /-
Indigo	40 Kg	920-960 /-
Jk wall Putty	40 Kg	700-800 /-
Berger wall putty	40 Kg	800-900 /-

Note- If you want Whiteness- go with the Asian or indigo. Birla or jk provides whiteness with a little bit of yellows whiteness.

Putty comes in the quantity of 1kg, 5kg, 10kg, and 20Kg. Purchase according to the requirement.

Now come to the choices of paints.

Here you know the names of some paints, which will give information about price and these are available in the market or you can order online.

Name of the Paints	Quantity (Lt)	Price (Rs)
Berger Bison Acrylic Interior Wall Emulsion Paint	5 Lt	850 /-
Asian paints Tractor Emulsion	4 Lt	1520 /-
British Paints	4 Lt	836 /-
Nerolac Impressions Metallic Paint, Red Pearl-4L	4 Lt	3,350 /-

Now you might be clear with the Cost of Painting a House in India and we are sure you can calculate for your house.

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At last, we are sure that, you have the idea to calculate the cost of the one room. With this, you’ll be able to calculate the whole house.

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Cost of Painting a House in India

Items required and costs

Calculation of covered area wall painting

Final cost of wall painting in one room

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