Coating Project Travel Time: Allocate It to Visits, Not Surface Area Alone

The key distinction

Separate travel, site setup and productive work in the estimate. The project sequence and cure or access requirements determine how many visits are realistically needed. A square-metre rate may include travel commercially, but the internal planning model should still reveal it.

Practical checks

1. List the required visits and their purpose.
2. Estimate travel and site-access time for each visit.
3. Recalculate when staging or appointment requirements change.

Example

Arithmetic example: three visits with one hour of travel each require three travel hours, even if the total coating area is small. Combining the work into one feasible visit would change that component of the estimate.

Scope and limits

Do not compress required cure or inspection stages merely to reduce travel. Product instructions and the agreed site conditions govern whether visits can genuinely be combined.

Related guidance

• Plot Coating Trial Results Against Actual Time, Not Equally Spaced Visits
• Estimate Coating Material Needs from Measured Surface Area
• Surface Age in a Wetting Report: The Time Is Part of the Result
• Coating Crew Estimates: Person-Hours and Elapsed Hours Are Different

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