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A flat price per square foot treats a driveway and a house soft wash as the same surface. They aren't: a clean concrete driveway runs around 1,000 sq ft/hour, a house soft wash closer to 500, a wood deck around 350, a roof around 250. And a $200 driveway around the corner is not the same job as a $200 driveway 40 minutes away — travel and setup are billed hours too, and a long drive each way can cut the after-travel hourly in half.
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Surface mix. Driveway, siding, deck, and roof each wash at a different production rate. Blending them into one number underbids whichever surface is slowest.
Drive time. Travel and setup are hours you're not washing anything, and they're the same billed time as the job itself.
The minimum. A job priced only by square footage can come in under what it costs just to show up, load the rig, and drive there.
The calculator does that arithmetic in your browser and reports the after-travel hourly rate — the number a flat per-foot price hides. Production rates are ballpark starting points, not a guarantee for your equipment or soil conditions; time your own crew and replace them.
A $200 driveway wash takes about the same on-site time whether it's around the corner or 40 minutes away — but the second job adds 80 minutes of round-trip driving that the first one doesn't. Priced only per square foot, both look identical. Priced with drive time included, the after-travel hourly on the far job can be roughly half of the near one. The calculator reports that number before the quote goes out, not after the day is already booked.
Split the job by surface (driveway, house siding, deck, fence), divide each by a production rate in square feet per hour, add drive time and setup, then load wage, chemicals, overhead, and margin. A flat price per square foot cannot see that house siding washes much slower than a driveway, or that a 40-minute drive each way can cut the after-travel hourly in half.
Travel and setup are billed hours. A $200 driveway with 80 minutes of driving is a different job from a $200 driveway around the corner. This calculator reports the after-travel hourly so the drive is visible before the quote goes out.
Ballpark starting points only: about 1,000 sq ft/hour for a clean concrete driveway, 500 for a house soft wash, 350 for a wood deck, 250 for a roof. Real rates depend on equipment, soil, storey height, and hand work. Time your own crew and replace the starting figures.