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This calculator vs. Housecall Pro
Two different shapes: Housecall Pro is an account-based platform for running a home service company's whole operation, including scheduling the crew and invoicing the customer once a job is priced. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one boiler replacement cost, given its scope, its plant, and its extras — before you quote it.
What each tool is for
Housecall Pro is a field service management platform used by home service businesses — HVAC, plumbing, hydronic and steam shops, and other trades that dispatch technicians among them — to run client management and online quoting, scheduling and crew dispatch, invoicing and online payments, and a client-facing hub, tied to one account used on an ongoing basis across every job the company runs. Housecall Pro's own site is not reachable from this session to confirm today's specific feature list, plan names, or pricing, so only its well-documented identity and category are stated here: nothing about it is invented, and no dollar figure for it appears on this page. Public descriptions of that kind of field service software describe scheduling, invoicing and collecting payment for a job once its scope and price already exist; none describe resolving scope, plant, fuel, and input MBH into a correct price before you quote it — which is the one thing this calculator does.
This calculator does none of what Housecall Pro does. It does not manage a client list, dispatch a crew across a season, or collect a payment. It takes one job's scope (like-for-like swap, condensing upgrade, or steam-to-hot-water conversion), system, fuel, input MBH, heating zones, and flue height, plus whichever of an indirect water heater, a chimney liner, an oil-to-gas conversion, and primary/secondary piping the job needs, and your crew wage, payroll burden, travel, overhead, and target margin. It turns that into the price, the labor hours behind it, the price per input MBH, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that floor. It also runs three comparisons the plant bid alone does not show: the same plant priced under all three scopes, a same-visit patch against a full replacement and the winters of callbacks it usually costs, and the standard bid against a customer-supplied boiler or a Saturday no-heat call. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I need to manage clients, schedule crews, and invoice and collect payment for boiler jobs and other work across my whole business. | Housecall Pro, or a comparable field service platform — running that ongoing operation is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this boiler replacement, given its scope, its plant, and its extras? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much more does a steam-to-hot-water conversion cost than a like-for-like swap on the same MBH? | This calculator's "Same plant, three scopes" comparison, not a flat per-boiler price. |
| Does tonight's "just patch it" call still cover the visit once this winter's callbacks are on the ticket? | This calculator's patch-vs-replace comparison. |
| Does hanging the boiler they bought at the supply house still cover the set, or does a Saturday call still pay after overtime? | This calculator's owner-supply and access-timing comparisons. |
| I already have jobs priced and need to schedule, invoice and collect payment across many customers, over a season. | Housecall Pro, or a comparable field service platform — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a boiler replacement bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Housecall Pro's tools are used through a paid account. |
Most hydronic and steam shops get different value from each: Housecall Pro (or a comparable field service platform) for managing clients, scheduling crews and collecting payment across an ongoing business as a subscription account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one boiler replacement should cost from its scope, its plant, and its extras before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a heat-loss calculation, a fuel-gas-code determination, an invoice, or a signed proposal.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Housecall Pro?
They do different jobs, and a hydronic or steam contractor of any size will likely end up touching both. Housecall Pro is a field service management platform used across home service trades to run client management and online quoting, scheduling and dispatch, invoicing and online payments, and a client hub, tied to one account used on an ongoing basis across every job the company runs. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from scope (like-for-like, condensing upgrade, or steam-to-hot-water conversion), system, fuel, input MBH, zones, and flue height, with an indirect tank, a chimney liner, an oil-to-gas conversion, and primary/secondary piping as their own line items, plus crew wage, payroll burden, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the price, the labor hours behind it, the price per MBH, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money, before any of it touches a business-management system. It also prices a same-visit patch against a full replacement, and a customer-supplied boiler or a Saturday call against the standard bid. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A contractor already scheduling crews, invoicing customers and taking payments across many jobs is better served by Housecall Pro or a comparable field service platform; a shop that wants an instant, private answer to what one boiler replacement should cost from its scope, its plant, and its extras, before opening a business system, is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Housecall Pro?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Housecall Pro. Housecall Pro is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Boiler Replacement Bid Calculator to price your own job, or read the pricing walkthrough.