Want to thank everyone for participating. I 'm actually pleasantly surprised that the whole country hasn’t gone mad on pricing like Fl. We had 17 people submit what they thought was a realistic price for their area. The lowest price was $375 and the highest was $795. Most the NE guys were towards the top, maybe because of a shorter season or maybe things are more expensive.
All but 5 of the bids were above $450. The average was $503.
The actual price was $585. It took me 3 hours and 6 min by my timer, including final walk around with rag, hitting a couple of leakers, hand wiping top of deck rails, taking off tape, etc. and a couple of 5min breaks. I probably did 10-15 min worth of extras in there.That’s working alone. Spent probably 15min setting up and another 10 min rolling up in addition. So right at 3.5 hours total.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to submit a price. I think it’s kind of useful knowing the pricing difference for different parts of the country and hopefully gives everyone an opportunity to maybe see some more potential in your respective pricing models.
thank you all that contributed as well. Id like to invite more of the old timers to do this. Helps us all to see where we should be at for work time. Prices will very but it’s really good to see what the market will bear
Yes thanks for doing this! It’s definitely interesting to see the pricing, the manpower and the time. I’m towards the high end, I do a lot of houses very similar and I always need at least one guy with me, I always find I have to get up on those porch roofs, and hand brush the first few rows of siding under the eaves. Usually about a 6 hour day, working, talking to clients, people stopping by etc…it definitely is way more expensive to do business up here. Liability is through the roof, rent, tolls, tickets non stop money flying out of pocket! Thanks Racer great topic
Thanks for doing this everyone, I don’t know how I missed this the first time. It is interesting to see I would have been on the low end. I would have been $429 shooting for 3.5 hours. Chesterfield Va. Looks like I have some room to expand my pricing but I would have given myself a very low chance of landing the job at that price. Interesting.
Joe
Sorry that this is my first post on here… I really liked this… I’ve been lurking in the background…and lurked for days before joining… I have read into several other PW forums and found this to be the best. I own an operate a lawn and landscape business in West Central FL. and do pressure washing for my customers in the winter months. I had a pressure washing business in my younger years… I will get into that in my intro post… I did an estimate before I read others… And before I read racers final conclusion… I figured at $520 for the house and garage and another $125 for the patio and railings… a little high maybe?? LoL but I think by myself with a 4.5gpm 3200 psi machine it would take me 5 hours… Guessing high … Oh the names Doug and nice to meet y’all… Great post @Racer
I’m in Iowa just started this year made 27k from April till November 15 so good first year but I charge for farm home and large home that size $475 thanks
$250 -$350 in the Tampa area. 3 hours one guy 1.5 hours with 2 guys . Most areas will get the $350 but there are areas so saturated that $250 is really all your going to get
Here in socal your gonna get about $100-$140 per hour… That’s about it, of course sometime you make more if you over bid ect… so if that’s a 5 hour job your looking at about $600
Window cleaning would be about $80-$100 per hour and that depends on how fast you are at cleaning glass
I live down town. Until we finish building the house in weeki wachee . Be prepared to face the same issue you are with your lawn service. Different Buisness same area those problems are same ones facing every business except health care and government. Low ballers are everywhere customers not paying can be avoided in this business. Can also be avoided in lawn service as well though.
I would have bid at $550 just me by myself. As for time I spent 9 hours on my first house.
It was 3,726 sq. ft. Two story… Two half gables, two large full gables, 4 dormer gables. Two large covered porches(length of house front and back). I was at about $560(before discounts) on that particular house for just the house wash. But got $700(before discounts) on the 4,000+ sq. ft. of driveway.
I also doubled back on the house way more than any of you would. I could have efficiently done it in 4.5 hours on my own if not for the doubling back to make sure my first job was perfect.
I gave 10% off promotional business startup discount and 5% combo discount for driveway and house, and a 2% veterans discount. Still walked away with about $1,154 after getting a $100 tip.
I spent 9 hours on my first house.
