The Painter & Decorator Business Starter Guide (UK) – PDF Guide + Fillable Workbook

Starting your own painting and decorating business, or want firmer foundations? This guide shares practical lessons from running S.H Decor: valuing your time, pricing and quoting room by room, finding your first customers, looking after them and managing the money.

Written by a working decorator from real experience – a starting point to adapt to your own business, not a list of rules.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• The Painter & Decorator Business Starter Guide – A4 PDF, 22 pages, 11 chapters plus 5 worksheets

• Companion Workbook – A4 PDF, 7 pages, the 5 worksheets on their own

INSIDE THE GUIDE

• Before you start and setting up your business

• Tools, materials and working methods

• Pricing and quoting (with a real itemised quote example)

• Getting your first customers and customer care

• Building your online presence and getting chosen

• Money, records and understanding your profit

• Growing your business and your first 30 days

5 WORKSHEETS (FILLABLE OR PRINTABLE)

• Room-by-room pricing worksheet

• Quote scope checklist

• Startup essentials checklist

• 30-day plan tracker

• Job review sheet

HOW TO USE

• Read on your phone, tablet or computer, or print on A4 at "Actual size".

• To type into the worksheets use a free reader like Adobe Acrobat Reader – some browser and phone viewers don't support form fields.

PLEASE NOTE

• General information and practical experience – not a substitute for legal, tax, insurance, health and safety or specialist advice.

• Pricing examples are illustrative, not market averages or a promise of what a job should cost.

• Digital download – nothing is posted. You'll get a ZIP file to download straight after payment.

• For the purchaser's use only. Please don't resell or share the files.

Guide by S.H Decor.