Pressure washing estimates and invoices, surface by surface.

Price by surface and by stain.

Pressure washing software that quotes one flat rate per square foot is ignoring what actually drives the time: the surface and the stain. Siding, a concrete driveway, a wood deck and a roof are four different jobs with four different methods. Oil on concrete, rust from a sprinkler, efflorescence on brick and mildew on the north side each need their own treatment.

In Jobkore every line has its own unit. The house wash, driveway, patio and deck by the square foot, a stain treatment or a set of gutters each, extra time by the hour. Walk the property with the customer first, point out the stains and write down which ones come out and which ones may only lighten.

The Painting & Drywall trade pack, which covers pressure washing, starts your catalog with house exterior, driveway and patio, and deck washing by the square foot, plus deck stain and seal. Change the prices to yours once, and every estimate starts from your numbers. More on pricing pressure washing.

Soft wash or pressure: say which, and why.

The customer's real question is whether you will clean it without wrecking it. Answer it on the estimate by naming the method for each surface. Soft wash, low pressure with a cleaning solution, for siding, roofs and cedar. High pressure for concrete. High pressure on vinyl siding drives water behind it and damages trim; on a cedar shake roof it tears the fibers and shortens its life.

Name the cleaning solution too: a mildew treatment for organic growth, a degreaser for oil, a rust remover for iron stains. Mildew on shaded walls is biological, not dirt, and a proper treatment is what keeps it from coming straight back.

Customers who have been burned by a cheap wash that stripped paint or etched a driveway pay attention to this part. It is the reason your price is not the lowest.

Protect the plants, the outlets and the pets.

Cleaning solutions kill shrubs if you let them. Wet the landscaping before you start, rinse it after, and cover the sensitive plants. Tape over exterior outlets, low-voltage fixtures and the AC disconnect. Tell the customer in writing when pets and kids need to stay inside, and for how long after.

Say where the water comes from. A house spigot often cannot keep up with soft washing, so bring a buffer tank on big jobs and note it. On large flat concrete, a surface cleaner gives even results with no wand lines.

Check your local rules on runoff, since many areas restrict wash water with cleaning chemicals going into storm drains, and commercial jobs often need a plan for it. Put protection and runoff handling on the estimate as their own lines.

Sealing, photos and the next job.

Sealing concrete or pavers after cleaning is a natural add-on, and it needs reapplying every few years. Offer it as its own line with the interval noted, and the customer knows when to call you back.

Before-and-after photos sell this trade. Add them to the invoice: up to 20 on the document and 6 on a single line. A before photo of the green north wall beside the soft wash line is all the explanation a customer needs. Keep the before photo on the estimate and the after photo on the invoice, and the pair tells the whole story.

When the customer asks for the fence or the patio furniture on the day, write a change order on the invoice with its own price. They sign it online and the total moves to include it.

Get paid the day the job is done.

Most pressure washing jobs are paid on completion. Send the invoice with a payment link and the customer pays by card or bank transfer on their phone. Stripe charges its standard rate and Jobkore adds nothing on top. If a payment runs late, Jobkore sends reminders at 1, 7 and 14 days, then stops.

Larger commercial jobs can take a deposit and the balance on completion, on one invoice with a payment schedule. Jobkore does not bill repeat customers automatically, but each yearly wash is a quick invoice priced from your catalog.

Invoices and payments sync one way to QuickBooks Online.

Hank knows the pressure washing traps.

Jobkore includes Hank AI™, an assistant that knows the trade you picked at signup. Tell him the job by typing or with a voice memo: two-story vinyl house with mildew on the north side, 800 square feet of concrete driveway with an oil stain, a 300 square foot wood deck, and seal the driveway after. He drafts the estimate by surface with the methods, priced from your catalog first.

Turn on a review before sending and he checks it against a pressure washing list: high pressure quoted on vinyl or cedar, no plant protection, one flat rate that ignores the stains, no plan for water supply on a soft wash. He can add the missing line and never changes your prices in a review.

Jobkore does not do route scheduling or recurring billing. It does estimates, change orders, invoices and payments, on your phone, in English or Spanish. Related trades: painting, decking and cleaning. See the pricing page.