Los Angeles, CA
PRESSURE WASHING / WINDOW CLEANING ESTIMATING.

## Bidding Pressure Washing Work in Los Angeles Takes Local Knowledge Los Angeles runs year-round. That sounds like easy money until you price a job in Bel Air, Koreatown, and Boyle Heights back to back and realize the surface mix, access conditions, and client expectations are completely different each time. Santa Monica driveways see marine-layer salt deposits. Downtown commercial facades collect diesel particulate. Properties in the hills have steep grades, narrow gates, and no street parking for your rig. You need an estimate that accounts for all of it — surface type, linear footage, story height, dwell time on oxidized stucco — before you name a price. Estimate.Pro gives you a scope-of-work framework tuned to exterior cleaning. Walk the property, capture measurements with AR on supported devices (camera measurements are flagged as estimates), and get a sendable bid in 8 minutes. No spreadsheet archaeology. No guessing at square footage on a second-story window line. --- ## What Makes LA Pressure Washing Estimates Different **Surface variety is extreme.** A single block in Los Feliz can mix poured concrete, pavers, Saltillo tile, painted stucco, and wood decking. Each surface has a different PSI ceiling, chemical dwell time, and rinse requirement. Your estimate has to line-item those differences or your margin disappears on the first job. **Water costs matter.** Los Angeles is under tiered rate structures from LADWP. High-volume jobs on large commercial properties can push you into Tier 3 residential rates or trigger commercial water surcharges. A flat "$X per square foot" bid that ignores water consumption gets you in trouble on estates and multi-unit properties. **Commercial window cleaning requires a separate license in some municipalities.** For jobs above certain heights within LA County, you may need to comply with Cal/OSHA's high-rise window cleaning regulations (Title 8, Section 3284), which affect your equipment costs and insurance premiums. That has to be baked into the bid, not discovered after you've signed a contract. **HOA and building management approvals add lead time.** Many LA multifamily buildings require vendor approval, certificate of insurance, and scheduled access windows. Your bid should reflect mobilization costs for properties where you can't show up and start. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Handles the Scope For pressure washing and exterior cleaning, Estimate.Pro structures the estimate around: - **Surface categories** — concrete, pavers, stucco, wood, composite, glass - **Linear footage and square footage inputs** — pulled from AR walkthrough or manual entry - **Story multipliers** — first floor, second floor, above-grade ladder or lift work - **Chemical and water volume line items** — saved to your material cost workspace so rates update once and carry everywhere - **Window cleaning add-ons** — screen removal, track cleaning, hard water stain treatment You build your cost library once. After that, every bid pulls from your saved rates. When LADWP rates go up or your chemical supplier changes pricing, you update one number and every future estimate reflects it. --- ## Pricing and Platform Estimate.Pro is free to start — no credit card required. The Free tier gets you off spreadsheets immediately. Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and adds Stripe Connect invoice exports, and 0% platform fee on payments collected through the app (Free tier is 3%). Crew is $399 per month flat for growing teams. For a pressure washing company running 15 to 40 bids a month across residential and commercial accounts in LA, the time saved on estimating alone — 8-minute median from walkthrough to sendable bid — covers the cost of the software on the first job. --- ## Built for the Trades, Not for Software Demos Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Pressure washing sits alongside concrete flatwork, painting, window glazing, and landscaping — trades you may already sub out or upsell. If you add window cleaning or soft washing to your service list, the estimate framework is already there. You get a field operating system, not a form builder. Walkthrough, scope, price, send. That's the sequence. It works in Culver City, it works in Chatsworth, and it works on a commercial strip in the Fashion District. Start free at Estimate.Pro. No card. No commitment.