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Commercial painting in San Francisco, CA

We hold 11,079 businesses listed for painting inside 25 miles of the San Francisco metro center, of which 1,427 hold a classification for the trade itself and 9,652 are licensed broadly enough to take it on and subcontract it. The median one is 14 mi out, and 11,079 publish a license number on the register they came from.

Covered ZIPs in San Francisco: 94002, 94005, 94010, 94014, 94015, 94018, 94019, 94030, 94037, 94038, 94044, 94065 and 149 more. Swap yours in to re-rank by who is closest to your site.

Coverage in San Francisco

What we actually hold for painting here

Counts of rows in the directory for this trade and this metro, not a national figure dressed up as local.

11,079
Businesses listed

inside 25 miles of San Francisco

1,427 of 11,079
Licensed for the trade itself

the rest hold a general class that covers it

14 mi
Median distance to site

about 6 min drive

11079 of 11079
With a license number

as published by the issuing authority

11079 of 11079
With a phone number

shown only where the source permits it

Counted by running the same matcher the search page uses, with the San Francisco metro center as the origin and the 25 mile radius the list below settled on, then cached for fifteen minutes.

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Painting businesses listed around San Francisco

Ranked on distance from the San Francisco metro center and nothing else. Drive times are estimated from that distance rather than read off it, so a site across town does not read as five minutes away. Enter your own ZIP to measure from your own address instead.

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Jones Painting

San Francisco, CA

Distance
0.3 mi
·
5 min drive
Phone
(415) 634-5784
Typical market price for this job
$400-$18,000
painting

California Contractors State License Board C33 #1069746

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Compiled from public state license registers. Verify license status and insurance before hiring.

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What it costs

What painting costs in San Francisco

We never speak to the businesses listed above, so there is no local median to publish and we will not invent one. Every figure below is our own national band for this job, moved only by how soon you need somebody.

Our estimate for Commercial painting in San Francisco, CA, by what drives the price
How soon you need itTypicalRange
Scheduled visitBooked in advance, no urgency multiplier applied$1,800$400 to $18,000
Same dayOur band multiplied by 1.12$2,015$450 to $20,160
Emergency calloutOur band multiplied by 1.35$2,430$540 to $24,300

Every row is the same band with the urgency multiplier the search page applies, so the table can never contradict the headline number. There is no regional index behind any of it. The figures do not change with your metro, and the copy says so rather than dressing a national band up as a local rate.

What drives painting demand around San Francisco

Ground floor commercial space here is mostly pre-war, the kitchen behind it is small, and the only way in is the front door on a graded street, so getting a compressor or a water heater in and the old one out is half the job and worth settling on the phone. Fog carries salt across the western half of the city most mornings and leaves rooftop equipment and outdoor disconnects wet through the hours they would otherwise be drying.

Before you book anything

Checks worth doing first, before you call anyone in San Francisco

The median listing here sits 14 mi from the metro center, close enough that owners tend to call before checking the obvious. These are the checks that end the most calls for this fault.

Try a quick fix first

Some issues resolve without a truck roll. Two minutes now can save the callout.

  1. 1

    Say up front when the work can happen. Overnight and closed-day working is normal for commercial painting and it changes the price, so it belongs in the conversation rather than as a surprise.

  2. 2

    Ask what the preparation includes. Two prices that look different are usually one contractor washing, filling and priming and the other one not.

  3. 3

    Specify a washable finish anywhere near food, water or hands. Standard flat paint in a kitchen or a restroom fails within a year.

  4. 4

    Check whether your landlord or your brand has a specified color. Repainting twice because the shade was wrong is an avoidable expense.

Also serving nearby

More painting pages

No other metro has a page for this trade, so the national page is the one to read next. Every service below has one, and a ZIP search reaches further than any of these lists.

San Francisco, CA

Other services owners book in San Francisco

Nationally

Service pages every metro shares

Everything we cover in San FranciscoCommercial painting nationally

Questions owners ask

Painting in San Francisco: the questions we get

The answers below hold anywhere. Where California rules or permits change one of them, ask the business to put it on the written price before you agree to the visit.

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Who is licensed to do this work in California?
The classification that squarely covers it is C-33 painting and decorating. Every listing above shows the classification, the license number and the date we read it off the register, so you can check it against the state rather than against us. Worth knowing: the classifications do not separate commercial work from residential, so nothing here proves a business specializes in premises like yours.
How far out do these businesses sit?
We hold 11,079 inside 25 miles of the San Francisco metro center, 1,427 of them holding a classification for the trade itself and the rest general contractors who can subcontract it, the median one 14 mi out, and 11,079 publish a license number. Distance is straight line from the metro center to the address each business filed with its licensing authority, which is often a home, so we never print it. Enter your own ZIP to measure from your premises instead.

San Francisco, CA

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