That depends. What time does the boss turn his back long enough for me to peel out of the driveway in a black cloud of noxious rubber?

 

Now that im my own boss, Im down to 6 hour days whenever possible.

 

Dang! That is amazing! When I became my own boss my hours increased from 8 and went to an average of 11.

 

2080 hrs./yr. here. Not including another 400 hrs./yr. commuting, and 500 hrs./yr preparing for, and decompressing from work. Grand total of around 3,000 work related hrs./yr.

Breakdown of 8,760 hrs./yr. time resource:

35%-Work Obligation (of which only 23% is compensated)

29%-Sleep

12%-TV

0.08% Domestic chores

0.06%-Internet

0.04%-Dedicated physical exercise

Leaving 0.06% change (526 hrs./yr., or 1.4 hrs./day to think about this stuff)

Note: I did not include paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave. Which makes those seem even more of a value than what I currently give them.

Note2: I also didn't include OT.

 

8 to 10 hours 6 days a week. no breaks straight work

 

Physically at a job site and painting? Probably 3-4 hours. Don't get me wrong I work straight 8-14 hour days (I worked 6 hours today) when possible. But a lot of my time gets eaten up driving (most of our jobs are an hour plus away), doing blueprint breakdowns/bidding, safety meetings, basic accounting (we have an accountant but I still to know what's going on on a monthly basis), basically I spend a lot of time managing things as well as painting. I had hoped my business partner would be more inclined into logistics, but he prefers to paint all day lol. I don't blame him though.

 

I worked all week from 9 to 5 every day. I had 3 estimates after work. Plus the time to actually put it together and send it off. Then wash my brushes every night (because I hate painting with a day old gunky brush, so that's my choice). After 3 hours of clean up at the job site on Friday , I spent an hour cleaning rollers, brushes buckets etc in preparation for next week. Then my kids want to know what's for dinner.

An efficient cleaning process makes me money. Each one of these roller covers I don't have to buy again goes straight into my pocket [emoji4] Check out my idea for hanging rollers to dry.

 

I worked all week from 9 to 5 every day. I had 3 estimates after work. Plus the time to actually put it together and send it off. Then wash my brushes every night (because I hate painting with a day old gunky brush, so that's my choice). After 3 hours of clean up at the job site on Friday , I spent an hour cleaning rollers, brushes buckets etc in preparation for next week. Then my kids want to know what's for dinner.

An efficient cleaning process makes me money. Each one of these roller covers I don't have to buy again goes straight into my pocket

I would think an extra hour would be worth at least as much as the value of a used roller cover-- especially with kids and a dinner obligation.

 

I actually think a used and we'll washed roller cover performs a lot nicer than a brand new one. But to be fair we just wrap ours at the end of the day and pitch them when they lose performance. Since it's commercial, we tend to keep roller covers longer than most jobs anyways, and we just write them off come years end. Also Mack with a hose I can clean a roller cover in under a minute. If they're 8-12 bucks a cover, if you can clean say 4-5 of them in under 10 minutes, it's actually a pretty good savings. She can use that 30-50 bucks to feed her kids instead.

 

id toss covers if i bought the cheap ones but i get the quality ones so its worth cleaning

 

I buy quality everything and everything is worth the labour to clean and care for them! I spend an average of 1 hours pushing the paint on site and then, still, need to take care of all the other stuff.

What I am seeing is, like me, most of you don't get much "personal time". Once we finish on the job there is all the extraneous stuff that keeps us working AND Hubby wonders why I am not thrilled to cook dinner when I walk through the door! Someone PLEASE, explain it to him! :vs_mad:

 

I buy quality everything and everything is worth the labour to clean and care for them! I spend an average of 11 hours pushing the paint on site and then, still, need to take care of all the other stuff.

What I am seeing is, like me, most of you don't get much "personal time". Once we finish on the job there is all the extraneous stuff that keeps us working AND Hubby wonders why I am not thrilled to cook dinner when I walk through the door! Someone PLEASE, explain it to him! :vs_mad:

Couldn't edit to correct my post so I quoted myself to say "11 Hours pushing paint" and then...

 

8-9hrs. Depending on when I start. If I can start at 7am, that's a good thing but there's only certain situations that allow that. 4pm and I'm out of there. I get sick and tired of not even sitting down to eat until 8pm.

Work to live, don't live to work.

 

Mostly 6 hrs on-site, but it depends on what is going on. I have only 1 employee at the moment, so he's there from 8:00-4:30.

I am trying to get on a M-F 8:00-4:30 schedule for myself, which would include administrative and accounting time. I've also batted around the idea of making Wed paperwork day. When I gather another employee or two for the summer, I'll probably give it a try.

 

The 14s fit on a 14" roller frame with the bar. I don't like using the double sided frames. You can't roll tight onto corners and I just can't get a good roll rhythm with them. It's feels just like a 9 but 5 more inches of productivity.

 

I average 6-8 hours a day painting on jobsites. I also spend about 10 hours a week on average in my office and doing estimates. In the spring and summer though, I put in 60 plus hour weeks when needed.

I'm all about putting in time and getting things done... but now with a young child, and never enough time in a day; I'm looking to spend less time working.

 

Put in an 8hr day onsite painting. An hour or more commute depends on the job location. I used to toss my rollers after a jobs use but now wash them. Save $3-$7 a sleeve. That adds up if you use 6-10 sleeves a week. Wash everything after each job is done that night. Used to pay my helper to wash tools but he didn’t do it good enough. I’m picky with my brushes. When I was young and single I used to work 12-14 hrs. But those days are gone.


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The least amount possible to still get a full paycheck! Salary,baby. I try to get paid to take naps as often as I can get away with...lol I'm done running 10-14 hrs or more a day. My sanity (or what's left of it anyway) just ain't for sale any more....and my back's got a premium price tag on it.lololol just gotta make it to the finish line.. .

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Normally I do five days a week and normally spend between 6-7hrs physically working. That does not include the commute which is sometimes an hour depending on where I'm working.

Depending on the calls that come in that week I'll setup jobs to look at after work if they're along my route home. If they're not along my drive back I'll set them up for Saturday morning and normally spend 4-5 hours every Saturday looking at them.

On average, every day I'll spend an additional 1-2 hours on the phone or emailing customers in the pipeline, setting up quotes, and ordering materials.

 

No more than 6 hrs a day.

 

7-3:30 when weather and light permits it. Many commercial jobs have poor lighting so sometimes we have to wait till 7:30 to start. Starting at 8:00 is like starting in the middle of the day esp. in the summer. No estimates after 4:30. I will look at plans after 8:00 pm for a little while. Some sat. when we have to as schedules get crunched sometimes or it is an office re-paint.

 

HOLY COW, hubby might have a point; I am working to much! I spend 11 hours a day actually painting and "days off" doing quotes. I finish my book keeping, organizing and clean up of tools some time between 9:30 PM & 10:30 PM. I am in bed by no later than 1:AM. Clearly, I need to get a life! BUT I never start work before 9:AM! I do want to sleep some time. :biggrin:

 

Any amount of hours, at any time day or night, on any day of the week. I try to be flexible and accommodating to my customers and don't have many obligations outside of my work. Usually it is 6-8/day and I try to give myself the weekends.

 

I have no problem working weekends. During the summer I often don't even know what day it is, just know where I have to be in the morning. That being said, I absolutely hate working evenings. Hate hate hate it.

 

How many? These days, as few as I can get away with.

 

I think I might be in the minority, but long work day of actual painting are my favorite. There's just something therapeutic about the sound of the brush dragging along drywall or the crackle of the roller as it's running down the wall and not having to think about everyone and everything else. It's kind of like my escape from meetings and phone calls and huge print breakdowns and bidding wars etc.

Every so often I'll do a residential job for a friend and I'll bring my dogs and they lay on a clean set of drop cloths and watch me work and if I could do that every day for life I would.

 

Like Woodco, I'm at 6 hours a day, some days more, some days less. Now, in that 6 hour time frame, I'm all work. I may take a short 15 minute break to eat a sandwich, but other than that, I'm working. I'm older, my kids are grown so I don't have that push to crank out the hours.

 

I'll tell you all one thing. My back isnt in pain every damn morning now that I dont work as much. When I am working though, I MOVE. I easily get as much done in 6 hours as most painters do in a full day.