Interior Painting Estimating Software Built From the Plan

Painting estimating software helps contractors turn construction plans into painting quantities — wall and ceiling area, trim length, door counts — and then into paint and primer gallons, labor, and a reviewable estimate. Vega is built around that workflow for painting contractors, general contractors, and estimators.

Yes. Vega extracts rooms and doors from floor plan PDFs, reads ceiling type and pitch across the set, and builds an editable painting estimate. This is an AI-assisted, estimator-controlled workflow — not a one-click automatic takeoff. You review the geometry and the painting decisions before pricing.

Vega calculates wall area from room geometry — room perimeter multiplied by wall height. This counts both faces of interior partitions and one interior face of exterior walls, which is the interior surface that gets painted. The wall height and perimeter are editable in the breakdown. Vega uses gross wall area; it does not deduct door and window openings from the wall total.

Yes. Vega converts paintable surface area into whole-gallon quantities. Paint gallons = CEILING((paintable SF × finish coats) ÷ paint coverage), with coverage defaulting to 350 SF per gallon. Changing the coat count or the coverage changes the gallon count. Gallons are calculated for the whole job, not separately per wall, ceiling, room, or surface.

Yes. Primer gallons = CEILING(paintable SF ÷ primer coverage), with coverage defaulting to 300 SF per gallon. Primer defaults on as one coat over the paintable area. You can choose general primer or stain-blocking primer, or turn primer off for a repaint that does not need it.

Yes. Finish coats are adjustable from one to five, with two as the default. Changing the coat count changes the material quantity — more coats means more paint gallons. Coat count does not multiply painting labor; labor is billed over a single area basis (floor SF or wall SF), not per coat.

Yes. Vega detects vaulted and cathedral ceilings and adjusts the ceiling surface area with a pitch multiplier — a sloped ceiling has more surface than the flat floor beneath it. Flat ceilings use the room floor area. Vega does not estimate tray ceilings, coffers, soffits, or bulkheads; those are treated as flat.

Yes. Painting labor is one line over a chosen basis — floor SF (default) or wall SF — multiplied by a union or non-union multiplier. Trim labor is per LF (from room perimeter) and door labor is a flat per-door price. A multi-tone surcharge can be added to the whole trade total. Every labor rate, the basis, and the multiplier are editable.

Yes. The Rooms tab shows wall SF, ceiling SF, and trim LF per room, and lets you edit painting and trim labor quantity and rate per room. Only labor is room-attributable — paint and primer are bought by the gallon for the whole job, so per-room material would invent fractional buckets. The tab says so rather than showing a number that quietly excludes most of the trade.

Yes. Interior doors are counted off the floor plan via door detection, and each carries a flat per-door painting price (front and back implied). The door count is editable. Vega does not estimate door jambs, casing, or specific door types separately — one flat price per door.

Vega uses room perimeter as a trim proxy — an editable allowance for baseboard and casing painting labor, priced per LF and multiplied by the union factor. It is not a finish-carpentry takeoff and it does not receive trim quantities from a millwork trade. Trim paint material is included in the job-wide gallon calculation, not a separate trim-gallon line.

No. Vega uses gross wall area calculated from room perimeter and wall height. It does not subtract door or window openings from the wall total. A room with a large window wall is billed the same paint quantity as a solid wall of the same dimensions. You can manually adjust the wall SF in the breakdown if you want to account for openings.

No. Vega uses catalog list prices for eight paint products from Behr, Sherwin-Williams, and Benjamin Moore, and two primer products. These are stored catalog selections, not live feeds. Every price is editable in the breakdown, and you can use your own rates. Vega does not provide live, real-time, local, or ZIP-code pricing.

No. Exterior painting — siding paint, stucco, EIFS, exterior trim, fascia, soffit, and exterior doors — belongs to the Exteriors trade. Interior Paint estimates interior walls, ceilings, trim, and doors only. The two trades do not overlap.

No. The Interior Paint estimator prices walls, ceilings, trim, and doors. It does not contain a cabinet-painting quantity, cabinet count, or cabinet labor line. Cabinet painting is not part of the current Interior Paint scope.