Just curious what you guys shoot for as a solo op… Or base price…
I like this guy’s channel and advice. He seems reasonable and realistic.
Says $1000 per truck per day. If we use 8 hours a day, that’s $125/hr.
From experience, that sound like a lot but, as you know, pressure wash is a little more costly than window cleaning and carries more liability. Plus, it’s nice to have a helper and pay them well
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I can’t see myself doing it for any less than 100 per hour. Just curious if there was any guys charging less or more. I range anywhere between 100-235. Really consistent at a little over 100 but sometimes knock it out at a much higher rate.
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Bare minimum $100/hr! I consider that under bid if I end up at that rate. Pressure washers are expensive plus you have set up and tear down time. You have to look at the value you are providing the customer as well you are improving the looks and value of the property especially if they are selling the home.
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I don’t have a ton of data to work from (only 42 hours on my machine, lol), but so far I’m hitting $150+/hr pretty consistently.
If I’m under $140-ish on a job, I figure I either underbid or underperformed. I know I can get hung up at times being a perfectionist, or rinsing drippy soffit vents or siding that should never have started weeping mud, had I been more careful.
This is just for house washing; I don’t do any flatwork, decks, roofs or anything tricky.
I seem to hit about the same hourly rates with exterior only WFP work, post house washing. Friday afternoon I spent a little under 2 hours washing a house ($425) and around 45 minutes washing screens and outside windows for an additional $150. Then another 20 minutes or so packing up. So $575 / 3 hours on-site = ~$190/hr
I can still see some room for improving my efficiency. As I get more practiced and dialed in, I hope to see my house washing rates consistently above $200/hr.
Really makes me want to phase out a ton of the window cleaning I do. $60-$75/hr is beginning to feel like “busy work”, lol.
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$100 per hour at a bare minimum for me. If you drop below that, you’ve either underbid or took way too long. Of course, crap happens and you sometimes end up with the most stubborn mold in the history of mankind, have an equipment failure, or some other unexpected factor which costs you time. I’ve been fairly consistent in getting $115ish per job (what few jobs I’ve had thus far in my first year). I’m happy at that rate, but will always be looking for ways to push for more.
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I’ve worked with other companies as a kid washing a few driveways and walkways and a few decks. For myself I only offer pwing to my condo clients for spring or fall washing of their back balconies which many of them choose. Easy money but I prefer to clean windows. I charge $300-$350 per balcony and it takes 40 to 45 minutes each. 
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Now that’s easy money! 
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We’re usually at a minimum of ~$125. I’d say we usually do $125-$150, with occasional jobs that land higher.
It’s been raining so much this Spring. House washing saved us and we had our best month ever in April and are on track to top that this month.
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$125 min goal. Sure sometimes on old jobs $100.
In hay making season $200/hr has been the norm.
On days of dreams we’ve hit $500/hr. 4 of those this week.
Get the right equipment, sell it correctly, smile
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I also charge at least $100 p/h for pressure washing, todays job took me 6 hrs I charged $950, 4 other companies didn’t even put in a bid as they saw it as too big for them( most only use a electric $99 pressure washer tho)my main competitor bid was so high the manager just laughed at it and said to me if mine had been as high he would have just hired the equipment from the hire shop and got his staff to do it, was just easy concrete cleaning, from the hire shop you could hire a similar set up to what I have for about $150/day. had I not had my 20" surface cleaner it would have taken days lol
Since I set up my trailer the set up and break down time is maybe 2 mins 2 reels out 1 with water in and the other pressure line out
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we start at $150 per hour min. But we normally make 200-250 an hour for house washing… 300-400 an hour for roof cleaning.
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Wow! Those hourly rates are amazing. Makes me want to look into pressure washing.
Can you consistently pressure wash in the rain?
I ask because we get a ton of rain in our area
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Depends on what you’re washing. Roofs and decks, it doesn’t really work well if the rain is rinsing all the soap off before it can do its job.
But for siding, I actually like it if it’s a little rainy. Keeps all the vegetation damp so I don’t have to worry about burning anything. It does get a little annoying trying to WFP when the siding hasn’t dried at all, though.
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Thanks for the advice.
I think I may be on the other side of the coin as most on this forum, but pressure washing is my primary business and window cleaning is secondary. Actually, We sub out 50-60% of our window washing depending on the time of year, but for power washing we use flat rates for residential work, but it all breaks down to $125/hour assuming worse case scenario. I.e. broken part, pump problems, other problems.
90% of the time things go smoothly and we average $140-$150/hour. If a homeowner questions it, and they haven’t yet, I’m prepared to break down what percentage goes to insurance, machine maintenance, fuel, detergent, taxes, wages, etc.
Commercial rates are a flat $180/hour due to commercial grade detergents, diesel & gas for the hotwater units, etc.
I think this video is pretty spot on.
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I bill pressure washing at $175 per hour for a 2 man crew. We can do about 2200sf per hour on surface concrete and about 1800sf on a building with a lift.
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