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This calculator vs. HoodCleaningDispatch
Two different shapes: HoodCleaningDispatch is a subscription dispatch system for running a kitchen-exhaust cleaning company's call intake, night-crew scheduling, and recurring follow-up. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one hood-and-duct system cost, given its canopy, duct run, and fans, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
HoodCleaningDispatch is a vertical dispatch system built specifically for commercial kitchen exhaust-cleaning companies. It offers 24/7 call intake, access-aware scheduling that books overnight work around a restaurant's kitchen-close hours, job photos, service records, access notes, and recurring follow-up so the next service date queues automatically. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account. HoodCleaningDispatch's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — a dispatch platform for kitchen-exhaust cleaning companies, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for HoodCleaningDispatch appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what HoodCleaningDispatch does. It does not take calls, schedule crews, or queue follow-up visits, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes the canopy hood area, hood filters, horizontal and vertical duct runs, clean-out door work, rooftop or wall exhaust fans, and makeup-air units that make up one system, prices them by grease load and access difficulty rather than a flat per-hood guess, and adds loaded wage, after-hours premium, travel, consumables, disposal, overhead, and target margin to turn that into the per-job price, the price per hood, the annual contract value at your cleaning frequency, 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 walk-away floor. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run an exhaust-cleaning company and need 24/7 call intake, night-crew scheduling, and recurring follow-up across every account. | HoodCleaningDispatch, or a comparable vertical dispatch platform — running a whole company's call flow is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this one hood-and-duct system, given its grease load and access, before I quote it? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much does a vertical duct run and a rooftop fan actually add over a flat per-hood bid? | This calculator's hood-only vs. system comparison. |
| Is the price I'm about to match still above my walk-away cost for this system? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need one shared system so my whole crew books night access windows and logs service records the same way. | HoodCleaningDispatch, or a comparable vertical dispatch platform. |
| How does the math behind a hood-cleaning 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. HoodCleaningDispatch is used through a subscription account. |
Most kitchen-exhaust cleaning contractors get different value from each: HoodCleaningDispatch (or a comparable vertical dispatch platform) for running call intake, night-crew scheduling, and follow-up across a whole company as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login check on what one hood-and-duct system should cost from its components before a dispatch system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled job, 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 HoodCleaningDispatch?
They do different jobs, and a kitchen-exhaust cleaning business of any size may end up using both. HoodCleaningDispatch is a vertical dispatch system built for commercial kitchen exhaust-cleaning companies: 24/7 call intake, access-aware scheduling that books night-crew windows around kitchen close, job photos, service records, access notes, and recurring follow-up so the next service date queues automatically, sold as an ongoing subscription. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from the canopy, filters, horizontal and vertical duct, and any rooftop or wall exhaust fan and makeup-air unit — priced as a system, not a per-hood guess — plus grease load, access difficulty, after-hours premium, loaded wage, overhead, and travel, it turns that into the per-job price, the annual contract value, and the walk-away price below which a flat per-hood bid loses money on the duct and fan it ignored, before any of it touches a dispatch system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. An exhaust-cleaning company already running call intake, night-crew scheduling, and recurring follow-up across a whole customer base is better served by HoodCleaningDispatch or a comparable vertical dispatch platform; a contractor who wants an instant, private check on what one hood-and-duct system should cost before opening a dispatch system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with HoodCleaningDispatch?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by HoodCleaningDispatch. HoodCleaningDispatch is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Kitchen Hood Cleaning Bid Calculator to price your own system.