Pressure Washing Estimate Template & Pricing Spreadsheet

Cost the job up from your own numbers, not from a price list. Add the chemicals you will actually pour, the crew hours including drive time, the truck cost for the round trip, and your overhead. That total is your break-even — the number below which the job costs you money. Your price is the break-even divided by one minus your target margin. The Pressure Washing Pricing Calculator does this on every job and shows the break-even separately, so you always know your floor before you quote.

Published price guides put most residential flatwork at about $0.15 to $0.75 per square foot, a driveway at roughly $100 to $300 and a house wash at $250 to $800 (Housecall Pro, 2026). HomeGuide's cost data shows a national average job of $211, in a range of $100 to $500. Most contractors set a minimum service fee of $100 to $250 to cover travel and setup (Housecall Pro). But those are national figures — your chemical prices, your wages and your market move the real number. The calculator prices from your own inputs and then checks the answer against the workbook's band for that surface.

It depends on your mix, your dilution and what your supplier charges, and those prices move. Sodium hypochlorite and surfactant are a small cost on any one job, but they are on every job, so they add up over a season. It is an easy line to forget, which is why the calculator costs chemicals explicitly on every job, from your own price per gallon and the gallons you use, instead of burying them in overhead.

There are plenty of free pressure washing estimate templates, but nearly all of them are blank forms — you still have to know what number to write in. They total up a price you supply. This one works the other way round: it tells you what the price should be, and warns you in dollars when the price you had in mind loses money.

Companies bill $50 to $160 an hour depending on the work: roughly $60 to $125 for high-pressure hard surfaces like driveways, and $100 to $175 for soft washing roofs, siding and wood. A solo operator needs about $120 to $130 an hour to clear $75,000 take-home once overhead and non-billable hours are accounted for. The calculator shows your effective earnings per crew-hour on every job so you can see which work actually pays.

Yes — Excel and Google Sheets. Nothing to install.

Yes, $39 one-time. Field-service software covering the same job is usually a monthly subscription.

Measure the area, pick the surface type, then cost the chemicals you will use, the crew hours on site and driving, the miles and any add-ons. Add overhead for the break-even, divide by one minus your target margin, and never go below your minimum job price. The sheet does each step and checks the result against the published band.