The quote lists every surface, the number of coats and the products by name, so two quotes can be compared line for line.
Plaster in a pre-war semi, drywall in a new build, and condo rules that demand a certificate of insurance and a booked service elevator.
Floors and contents masked, tools off the floor at the end of each day, and a walkthrough before the final invoice.
Fourteen services across residential, condo and commercial work. Each one has its own page with scope, prep and pricing.
Walls, ceilings and trim
Whole homes, single rooms and repaints between tenants.
Siding, stucco and trim
Prep, prime and topcoat within the Toronto painting season.
Suites and common areas
Insurance certificates, booked elevators and restricted work hours.
Offices, retail and units
After-hours and weekend schedules that keep the space trading.
Warehouse and plant
High-bay spraying, line marking and coatings that take abrasion.
Doors and drawer fronts
Degrease, sand, prime and spray for a factory-flat finish.
Scrape and skim smooth
Asbestos testing first on anything installed before about 1990.
Flat, stipple and high
Stain sealing, cut lines and coverage without roller tracking.
Patches and cracks
Board, tape, skim and texture match before the paint goes on.
Hang and remove
Wall sizing, pattern matching, and steam removal of old paper.
Airless and HVLP
Empty rooms, railings, doors and ceilings sprayed and back-rolled.
Masonry coatings
Breathable mineral coatings on brick that still needs to dry out.
Aluminum and stucco
Chalk removal, bonding primer and topcoats made for cladding.
Stain and solid colour
Wash, dry, sand and coat inside a dry weather window.
Researched 2026 Toronto ranges, before HST. These are planning numbers, not a quote. Your written quote is what governs the job.
$2.50-$4.50 per sq ft
Measured on floor area, whole-home work
Single bedroom typically $400-$900
Living or dining room typically $700-$1,500
Ceiling height, trim count and colour change move the number
$3.00-$6.00 per sq ft
Measured on paintable surface, not floor area
Typical detached house $4,000-$9,000
Scraping, siding material and storeys move the number
Booked inside the May to October painting window
$150-$250 per door
A full kitchen typically $2,600-$7,800
Popcorn removal, skim and paint $6-$10 per sq ft
Ceiling repaint $300-$500 per room smooth, $500-$900 textured
Asbestos testing is quoted separately and comes first
We measure, check the substrate, and send a scope that names every surface, the coats and the products.
Dates confirmed, and for condos the certificate of insurance and service elevator booked before the crew arrives.
Contents moved and masked, then filling, sanding, caulking and spot priming. Prep is where the finish is decided.
Coats applied to the quoted count, then a walkthrough with you before the final invoice is raised.
The four things that are in the scope on every project, residential or commercial.
Surfaces named, coats counted, products listed by manufacturer and line, and preparation itemised.
Furniture shifted and wrapped, floors masked wall to wall, fixtures covered or removed. Not an extra line.
Filling, sanding, caulking and spot priming appear separately, so a low number cannot hide a missing stage.
Any workmanship warranty is set out in your written quote, for that substrate and that exposure.
Sixteen service areas across Toronto and the surrounding 905. Each area page covers the housing stock and access conditions that change how a job is priced.
Painters in Etobicoke
Post-war bungalows, Humber Bay towers and long driveways.
Painters in North York
Sidesplits, Yonge corridor condos and deep back-split stairwells.
Painters in Scarborough
Bungalows, aluminum siding and large rear additions.
Painters in East York
Tight semis, plaster walls and narrow stair runs.
Painters downtown
Condo suites, loading-dock bookings and restricted work hours.
Painters in Leaside
Pre-war brick, original trim profiles and plaster ceilings.
Painters in Mississauga
Two-storey subdivisions, stucco fronts and double-height foyers.
Painters in Vaughan
Newer builds with tall ceilings and large open stairwells.
Painters in Brampton
Freehold towns, linked homes and finished basements.
Painters in Oakville
Older lakeside homes and newer estate builds side by side.
Painters in Markham
Heritage Main Street stock next to large modern subdivisions.
Painters in Richmond Hill
Detached homes with high foyers and long interior sightlines.
Painters in Thornhill
A mix of 1970s builds and recent infill across two regions.
Painters in Ajax
Lakeshore subdivisions and exposed south-facing elevations.
Painters in Whitby
Brooklin and downtown stock with varied exterior cladding.
Painters in Pickering
Older west-end homes and newer Seaton-area construction.
Reviews collected directly from clients. Paint Toronto is a young company, so this is every review we have, unedited.
Paint Toronto completed the interior painting for our main floor, and the results look excellent. The crew protected our furniture, worked neatly, and finished the job on schedule.
We hired the team to repaint our condo before moving in. They helped us choose the right colours, fixed the small wall imperfections, and left every room clean.
The painters did a great job refreshing the exterior trim and front door of our Toronto home. Communication was clear, and the work was completed carefully despite a tight schedule.
Paint Toronto repaired drywall cracks and painted our basement after a renovation. The finish is smooth and consistent, and the room looks completely renewed.
The team was professional from the estimate through the final walkthrough. They paid close attention to the edges, ceilings, and cleanup, and we are very happy with the finished result.
Most painting disputes start with a one-line quote. Paint Toronto writes the scope out: which walls, which ceilings, how many coats, which primer, what gets caulked and what gets left alone. That takes longer to produce and it is the reason our crews and our clients rarely disagree about what was agreed. Any workmanship warranty is set out in your written quote, job by job.
Toronto's housing stock splits along a line that changes how a job is priced. Much of the old city, from Leaside and the Danforth through to the west end, was built before 1960, which means plaster and lath rather than drywall. Plaster takes filler differently, cracks along its keys instead of along the tape line, and hides its damage until a sander touches it. A quote written for drywall and applied to plaster runs over.
North of Eglinton and out into the 905, the stock turns to post-war bungalows, sidesplits and then to subdivision two-storeys with double-height foyers. Those bring a different problem: reach. A twenty-foot foyer wall is not more square footage than a bedroom wall, it is scaffold time, and it belongs in the quote as such.
Downtown and along the Yonge corridor the work is mostly condo suites, where the constraint is not the wall at all. It is the building: the certificate of insurance property management wants on file, the service elevator that has to be booked, and the hours the board allows a contractor to be working. We price that access time in rather than discovering it on day one.
Across the published Toronto price guides, labour accounts for roughly 70 to 80 percent of a painting invoice. Most of that labour is not rolling paint. It is moving and wrapping contents, masking floors and fixtures, filling nail pops, sanding, caulking the gaps where trim meets wall, and spot priming the repairs so they do not flash through the topcoat.
That is why two quotes for the same rooms can be thousands apart. One of them included the prep and the other one assumed the walls were sound. Our quotes list the prep as line items so you can see which one you are reading.
Federal regulations cap the volatile organic compound content of architectural coatings sold in Canada, and the limits are low enough that the modern low-VOC and zero-VOC products most Toronto painters use are the standard rather than an upgrade. That matters most in condos and in occupied homes with children or pets, where airing out a suite for days is not practical.
Sheen does more work than people expect. Flat hides a rough wall and marks easily. Eggshell and matte are the working compromise in living space. Semi-gloss on trim and doors survives cleaning. In a Toronto kitchen or bathroom, where humidity swings hard through July and August, a scrubbable finish on the walls is worth more than the colour choice.
No. Estimates are free and come as a written scope. We measure the surfaces, note the substrate and the repairs needed, and send a price that lists the coats and the products by name.
Interior work runs roughly $2.50 to $4.50 per square foot of floor area and exterior work roughly $3.00 to $6.00 per square foot of paintable surface, both before HST. A single bedroom is usually $400 to $900. Those are planning ranges taken from published 2026 Toronto price guides, not a quote for your job.
Yes. Condo work needs a certificate of insurance filed with property management, a booked service elevator, and work kept inside the hours the building allows. We handle that paperwork before the crew is scheduled.
Not until it is tested. Textured and popcorn ceilings installed before roughly 1990 can contain asbestos, so a sample goes to a lab first. If the result is positive, removal becomes abatement work with its own procedures and its own price.
Waterborne exterior coatings need surface temperatures above roughly 10 degrees Celsius and a dry window either side of application, which puts the reliable Toronto season between May and mid-October. Booking in late summer or early fall usually costs less than booking at the June peak.
Any workmanship warranty is set out in your written quote, job by job. Every project has a different substrate and a different exposure, so we put the terms in writing for that specific job rather than making a blanket promise.